Artist Robin Eisenberg Takes Sexy to Intergalactic Heights
Solo astro-travelers cozy up in starship chambers and explore alien terrains in artist Robin Eisenberg’s sci-fi pulp and video game-inspired otherworld. Elsewhere, mermaids lie on their stomachs to Netflix and chill, with glittering scales taut over pert bottoms and whilst you never quite know if you’re underwater or in outer space on her planet, it seems to make curious sense. And it’s this trippy and disorienting quality—in all its harlequin splendor—that’s attractive as much as discerning. As the artist concurs—dystopia is something we are fascinated by: it’s normalcy versus the imagination, like a thunderstorm experienced from indoors or a horror film which make us feel cosy and disarmed in equal measure.
What’s marvelous to Eisenberg—a jazz-schooled indie musician turned illustrator—is not relegated to racy purple honeys with sumptuous bodies and third eyes alongside goddess-with-child pin ups. She's depicted everything from Drake and Rihanna canoodling, the Stranger Things cast, and plenty of other winking, blinking familiar faces. The Californian native can only be described as a feminist astrophile with a bountiful Sharpie collection.
With her inspiration in mind, its no mistake that the beauties she portrays live on spaceships, but the quarters etched are often luxurious for a reason—it's the setting she dreams of living in. "I’ve always wanted to live on a starship and have my room with the starry windows and the hum of the ship and the endless choices of music on command and all of the fancy lighting options." She goes on, "I think there’s something about having a place to yourself that is kind of self-sustainable, but that is also moving and going to new and unexplored places.
And purple are so many of her figures colored in purple? It’s a color that can be received as powerful, sexual, regal and transgressive all at the same time. "There are certain colors in nature that always make me feel very awake and alive, and I love that feeling. Sunset colors, twilight colors… greens of all kinds." The color purple can also be interpreted as magical and Eisenberg is no stranger to magic. "I was briefly part of a coven in high school and I love learning about herbs and rituals, the history and imagery that comes along with astrology. I think that you can glean wisdom and insight from any source regardless of your certainty or uncertainty over its validity."
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If only such a universe existed beyond her imagination. Thank goodness for escapism.