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Larry Eisenstein, Moosh, 5 x 7 inches, Ink on Paper, 2023
Larry Eisenstein is a Canadian artist whose drawing practice spans more than fifty years. Working primarily with ink on paper..., he creates densely accumulated fields of hand-made marks that investigate emergence, self-organisation and the relationships that develop through sustained acts of attention.
Originally trained and established as an illustrator before devoting himself fully to contemporary drawing, Eisenstein has spent decades pursuing an independent studio practice that resists predetermined imagery in favour of generative processes. His drawings evolve through prolonged reciprocal engagement, allowing complex structures to arise from the interaction of countless individual decisions rather than from a fixed plan.
His work has been exhibited throughout Canada and in New York, including exhibitions at Pierogi Gallery, Loop Gallery, YYZ Artists' Outlet, Humber College Art Commons and other public and private venues. His drawings are included in the Pierogi Flat Files in Brooklyn and have recently been presented through the Pierogi Traveling Flat Files at Mana Contemporary.
Based in New Brunswick and originally from Toronto, Eisenstein continues to develop large-scale drawing projects while researching the intersections of observation, perception, complexity and the living behavior of marks in the field of the page. Read more
Binge
5 x 7
Ink on Paper
2023
5 x 7
Ink on Paper
2023
Morphogenesis 1
8.5 x 11 inches
Colored Pencil on Paper
2025
8.5 x 11 inches
Colored Pencil on Paper
2025
Another Vegetable Sermon
7 x 7 inches
Ink on Paper
2024
7 x 7 inches
Ink on Paper
2024
I use drawing as a way of investigating how complex forms emerge through sustained relationships among simple actions. My work begins without a predetermined image or composition. Each drawing develops through marks whose accumulated interactions gradually establish the behavioral conditions of the work itself.
Rather than directing an image toward a preconceived outcome, I cultivate a reciprocal relationship with the drawing as it unfolds. Every mark both responds to and alters the evolving field, allowing structures, rhythms and unexpected forms to arise that could not have been planned in advance. The first mark establishes the initial culture from which the drawing's possibilities begin to grow.
The practice has increasingly become more stewardship than control. It asks for sustained attention, patience and the ability to remain present with uncertainty long enough for coherence to emerge. Drawing has become a way of cultivating a nervous system capable of remaining in relationship with wonder without being overwhelmed by it.
While rooted in the physical act of mark making, the work resonates with broader questions that have occupied me throughout my life: how order emerges from complexity, how living systems organize themselves, and how perception changes through prolonged observation. Each drawing is less a final statement than the visible record of an extended conversation between attention, material and time—a temporary crystallization within an ongoing practice.
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