About the Artist

Elaine Geisinger

THE ART OF ELAINE GEISINGER

Free-standing sculptures, bas-reliefs, or paintings that draw you emotionally into their quiet individual worlds.

A mother, with baby on her arm and a toddler clutching her hand, looks for cars as she crosses the street toward you. Three young women, in bright dresses, hats and high-heeled shoes, pass her to elbow their way through the crowds at the service window of Coney Island's own "Nathan's Famous", the hot dog capital of the world. The time is the early 1960's and you can smell the hot dogs, hear the screams from roller coaster riders, and see the sun lighting up the yellow, green, and red Nathan's signs.

This is not a time machine. It is one of Elaine Geisinger's richly painted bas-reliefs, vivid with life, motion, color and humor.

Plump women in swim suits change their clothes in a humid locker room where their companions lie sprawled getting the massage that makes exercising worthwhile. Three women in a cool blue-green shower where the refreshing water glints in drops on their pale skin. A rotund woman in a sauna with a barely legible book, "Eros in Antiquity", held in her hand. This tongue-in-cheek painted bas-relief spa series leaves the viewer certain that he or she knows each of the women by her first name.

Elaine, who started her career as a sculptor, working first in terra cotta and bronze, and later in marble and wood, wanted to add more life to her sculptures. She began to experiment with painting bas-relief, bronze and marble sculptures, and, in the process, created a most unusual, vital new dimension in art.

Her emotionally charged work is noted for its love and understanding of the human condition...mainly, a humorous look at women's place in the world.

For additional information and prices, you can contact the artist via Email at egarslongo@comcast.net

EXHIBITIONS:
- Art League of Marco Island, FL
- Lauritzen/Rush Galleries, Florida
- Armory Art Center, W. Palm Beach, FL
- Coral Springs, FL / Center of the Arts
- Jeannette Hare Art Gallery, FL
- National Academy of Design, NY
- Silvermine Guild of Artists, NY
- National Sculpture Society – Lever House, NY.
- Audubon Artists – National Academy Gallery, NY
- Knickerbocker Artists, NY
-Allied Artists of America, NY
-Port Washington Library, NY
- Manhasset, NY, Unitarian Gallery
- Shelter Rock Art Gallery, NY
- Los Angeles Art Festival
- Los Angeles Home Studio Tour
- Women’s Center Gallery, Ca.
- Imani Gallery, Ca.
- The Window Gallery, Ca.
- Beverly Hills, An Affaire in the Garden
-CAZ Gallery, Ca.
- Venice, Ca. Art Walk

COMMISSIONS:

Brooklyn Museum, Gallery of Great Brooklynites - Life Size Bronze Bust of Beverly Sills

Brooklyn Museum, Gallery of Great Brooklynites - Life Size Bronze Bust of Rep. Emanuel Cellers

Metropolitan Opera Shop - Opera charms bracelets.

Calhoun School – Bronze Commemoration Plaque.

Sands Point Community Synagogue - Wall Memorial.

Austin Productions Sculpture Reproductions: Fiddler on the Roof, Mother and Child, Marilyn Monroe, Indian Plains Jacket, Spring Dreams,

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:
- Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce
- Nathan’s of Coney Island
- Xerox Corporation
- Fisher Knits, Inc.
- NormanGardner Associates
- Milton Berger Associates, Inc.

AFFILIATIONS:
- National Association of Women Artists
-Boca Raton Museum Artist's Guild -signature member

STUDIES:
- BA Brooklyn College.
- Art Student League life-drawing classes.
- Brooklyn College, stone carving with Moisaev Marans.
- Vincent Glinsky Studio, stone carving.
- The New School for Social Research - Bruno Lucchesi. Bas Relief
- Santa Monica College of Design, Art & Architecture.