Casey Kaplan
Culture Desk: Five Female Painters to See in New York Art Galleries
September 8, 2018
By Andrea K. Scott
East of the madding crowd (near the plant district), Judith Eisler, a native New Yorker, is having her first show in a decade at the Casey Kaplan gallery. Eisler, who now lives in Vienna, has been working since the nineties with one strict rule: she paints stills from movies captured on her computer (back in the day, she used a VCR), putting an art-house twist on the cerebral photo-realism of Gerhard Richter. In the past, her paintings have felt somewhat constrained, a little too cool. But her new subject, Derek Jarman’s “Caravaggio,” has inspired the most beautiful work of her career—painting about painting that is as lush as a hothouse bloom.