Family Tree by Joshua Rose

Laguna Beach-After coming to terms with the death of her father, Candice Eisnefeld realized that for a majority of her life, she has lived detached geographically and personally from many of her close relatives. After reconnecting with a grouop of family members, Eisenfeld decided to dedicate her work to the same there-she started using her unique emotional landscapes to represent images and feeling that relate to her family

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Candice Eisenfeld, Arizona
Born: Arlington, TX, 1973.
Art education: Studied at Bezalel Academy of Fine Art in Jerusalem and received a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
Style of work: Contemporary abstract landscapes.
First art sale: “While in art school I had a job answering phones at the college of fine arts. People would call asking for students to do illustrations, and I’d always offer to do it.”
Favorite artists: Odd Nerdrum, Gustav Klimt, and George Inness.

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Profile of an Artist by Jenifer Cushman

An Interesting thing about memory is its fleeting quality. Bits and pieces of hazy images float inside the brain, as if on a lazy river, waiting for the mind's eye to scoop them up with an elongated fishing net.

Candice Eisenfeld's paintings are like taking a journey into memory. Most often constructed in diptych and triptych fashion, her misty, often brooding landscapes are paired brilliantly with her equally ethereal abstracts. Acrylic paint is applied in thin layers and varnished to deepen the hues, a process that gives her paintings a luminous and aged quality. The result is work that is steeped in metaphor and layered in meaning.

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Capturing the Spirit of Family by Roberta Carasso

At the Marion Meyer Contemporary Art Gallery, Candice Eisenfeld is inspired by how, in every home, there is often a wall of photographs of family members. This led her to consider the theme of Family Tree. However, the artist turns the tables and makes the family, not into human beings, but into acrylic landscapes, thus, the title "Family Landscapes". In some cases, she created the same or similar landscape in other paintings to convey the presence of a family DNA.

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by Meghan Taylor

Candice Eisenfeld's paintings can be classified as contemporary abstract landscapes. By combining narrative landscape and abstract elements, Eisenfeld appears to paint several works within one canvas. She experiments with various techniques, such as glazing, varnishing and applying different chemical mextures, to achieve glowing, sculptural and encaustic effects.

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Painter Has Art World Buzzing by Kyle Lawson

Word of mouth is that advertising can't buy. Candice Eisenfeld had only one painting hanging in a show at Scottsdale's Vanier Galleries. Up and down Main Street, other gallery owners talked about it. They found excuses to drop in at their competitors and study it. You think that happens a lot?

In their defense, Red Fields wasn't to be ignored. Bands of scarlet vegetation slashed across a brooding landscape. In the distance, a storm raged.Some saw it as a metaphor for a raped and bleeding Nature. Others heard echoes of the Holocaust.

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American Beauty is on Exhibit by Roberta Carasso

Laguna Beach - Candice Eisenfeld titles her current exhibition, at the Marion Meyer Contemporary Art Gallery, "American Beauty." Her paintings convey the essence of American idealism as expressed through the beauty of its landscapes.

For Eisenfeld, the land, in its pristine state, is a metaphor for the troubled thoughts and feelings experienced by a beautiful nation searching for answers. To achieve this daunting task, Eisenfeld depicts multiple images - one, two, or three - on one vertically or horizontally arranged canvas, combining abstraction with realism.

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East Valley Artists Travel North by Roberta Burnette
Ethereal Eisenfeld

Scottsdale-At Vanier Gallery, the paintings of 28-year-old Tempe artist Candice Eisenfeld introduces viewers to an ethereal space that shows them insight into thier eternal reality.

The part of Eisenfeld's art education that took place in Jerusalem, in another desert, may have indirectly inspried her Reflections a shiny "acrylic on panel" piece in reds, brown, burnt oranges and yellow-to-creams

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