Kristen Eisenbraun

What do you feel when you step out into the glory of the natural world? Do you absorb the complex relationships that drive the cycle of life? Throughout history, people have created myths as a way of expressing their traditional understanding of nature, and art as the prime story-telling medium. Today, we are no different; our connection with nature is failing because we have allowed our mythology to drift away.

My art beseeches the viewer to consider her/his own mythology – to strengthen their personal connection to nature. I seek to paint a universal story by depicting individual spirits that interact with the world. By merging a mythology that is appropriate for today’s struggles and stresses, with a classical realism technique, I hope to restore the viewers’ innate relationship with the earth biome. I fuse the recognizable with the imaginative to open a window to the breeze of mythological understanding. My work begins with the vulnerable state of today’s eco-realism and creates a path to comprehensive freshness.

Like the inspired painters of the pre-Raphaelites and French Romanticism, I build my technique to answer the deepest questions of today. Who are we? How do we infuse our personal journey on this planet with mag...

New York Academy of Art

2020, Nude Nite - Pop-up Exhibit, Tampa FL
2020, 31 Women Artists, Group Exhibit - Sedona Art Center, Sedona AZ
2019, 37th South Carolina Juried Art Competition - Pickens County Museum , Pickens, SC
2019, Portrait Connection, Nonprofit Exhibit - Bluffton, SC
2019, ArtFields Exhibit - Lake City, SC
2019, Portrait Connection, Nonprofit Exhibit - Bend, OR
2019, 25th Annual Judged Show, Society of Bluffton Arts Group Exhibit - Bluffton, SC
2018, Southern Appalachian Artist Guild Annual National Juried Exhibit - Blue Ridge, GA
2018, Fusion Art, 4th Annual Figures & Faces
2018, Metro Montage XVIII, Marietta Cobb Museum of Art Group Exhibit - Marietta, GA
2018, North Charleston Art Fest, Group exhibit - Charleston, SC
2018, 24th Annual Judged Show, Society of Bluffton Arts Group Exhibit - Bluffon, SC
2018, New Beginnings, Manhattan Arts International, Online Group Exhibit
2018, Oil Painters of America Eastern Regional Plein Air Competition, Group Exhibit, Anderson Fine Art Gallery - St. Simons Island, GA
2018, Railfest Group Exhibit, Greer City Hall - Greer, SC
2018, Summer Online Show, Oil Painters of America, Group Exhibit
2018, Tribeca Ball Group Exhibit, New York Academy of Art - New York, NY
2016, Road Trip Grou...