eisenbergmarc

Born: Dallas, Texas

Currently live in Houston, Texas…and love it!

My assemblages explore the possibilities of combining worlds, saving lives and changing intentions. Upcycling the old and giving new life.

The curving shape and sensual beauty of a brass horn still exists even after it falls from the stage. The well-worn guitar retains its grace long after the earthly life of the instrument. The instrument is resurrected with an infusion of love of an artist and the logic of nuts and bolts and gears and circuit boards.

Guns receive a transformation with a dressing of technology—both old and new. In essence, turning swords into plowshares—changing destruction into beauty.

There is no end of life for the broken and bruised. The resulting assemblages tell stories and represent unique new personalities, well-equipped to embrace a new future.

I enjoy taking something that someone else has discarded and giving it new life as a piece of art. There really isn’t a story or vision when I begin a project. Say for the guitars I will take a large item and attach that as the main focus and then begin placing and then attaching smaller pieces and work out from the main item. The pieces literally take on a personality of their own. For the acoustic guitars with computer parts as I work on them the sound hole becomes their mouth, other items become “eyes” and then I see the personality it wants to become; Looking at You Kid, Looney Tunes, Asian Tunes. One steampunk guitar has many hand painted old clock faces and I remembered the story of the “Radium Girls” and dedicated it to them. One is a black electric guitar and many of the parts are dark so it became “Dark Tunes”. “Married Together” is two different instruments… married together forever. Many times they tell me what they want to be named. Everyone sees something different in my work.

In the beginning all of my pieces were created with the computer parts. I then created my first steampunk guitar and during a show people would see the guitars created with the computer parts and I would hear “wow” and then they would see the steampunk guitar and I would hear a very low “wooooow”. I have been doing steampunk ever since.