paints directly from photographs she takes of her television screen while watching videos. She grids her film still photographs and painstakingly re-creates the images in oil paint. Often choosing movies from the 1970s, she selects moments in films when the image breaks down, when form is dissolved into near abstraction by framing, point of view, differential focus, backlighting, light flares, streaks and reflections. Depicting the image as it slips into formlessness, Eisler highlights the transience of cinematic images. Artforum critic Jeffrey Kastner states, "Eisler's new technique produced images layered with echoes and fleeting presences, traces of mediations they'd previously endured. Her work translates cinematic effects into moments of painterly bravura: Controlled bursts of rich color balance against virtually monochrome passages whose hues seem to have been wrung out from too many trips over the VHS heads...." The artist earned a BFA from Cornell University, New York in 1984. She has exhibited her work primarily in New York City and Vienna. 2004.014.