Project Portfolio
This page highlights the archive projects I think are the best and most inspiring examples of the work I do.
Some projects took only a matter of weeks and others took several months or years to complete, from the first box we labeled to the last box out the door when the museum came to pick them up.
Remy Charlip Estate
Organized, catalogued & digitized artwork, personal ephemera
Created remycharlipestate.org
Placed archive with The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center and the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
“It was a great pleasure to work with Seth. He was diligent, thorough and respectful. It was a monumental task to organize, catalogue and create coherence out of Remy’s dauntingly vast sixty-year career as an artist in multiple mediums, but Seth navigated it with patience and professionalism. Seth also played an important role as liaison between the estate, the publishing agency and the institutions where the archive was placed.”
~ Jules Beckman, Remy Charlip Estate Trustee
William Stewart
Organized, catalogued & digitized artwork, personal ephemera
Created quillemot.com
William was a professional calligrapher and artist who worked at the intersection of calligraphy and fine art, combining typography, calligraphy, letterform design, graphic art, book design, postage stamp design, postal art and collage. He played an active and creative role in the community with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, The Radical Faeries and later with The AIDS Memorial Quilt and as a volunteer at Shanti Project. Later in life he realized his dream to create Groundswell, a community that centered queer spirituality and ecological sensitivity.
Eva Soltes
Assessment for the formative stages of the archive and began the archival process
Created an inventory of collection: artwork, media and personal ephemera.
Developed long and short term goals and strategies to digitize and preserve collection.
Harrison House- Music * Arts * Ecology
“Seth Eisen brightens up the room while being steadfast and enthusiastic about the discovery, organizing and preservation of select artists’ history and output. I’m delighted to be among those he has chosen to help.
~ Eva Soltes
Paul Cotton/aka Adam II
In-progress
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“The Late” Paul Cotton/aka Adam II, is a delightfully brilliant multi-hyphenate- conceptual, installation and body artist whose major works began in 1965 and was active through the 1990s. His works focus on the “eternal presence” in the here and now, utilizing the live nude body, often his own, as his medium. He sees the body as an envelope for the breath and a vessel for life force. I see the work as an intervention to awaken us from our double standard of appreciating the nude body in art but not in real life and in the present moment.