Eva Zasloff is a family physician and a painter. As a doctor, she focuses her care on pediatric newborn and postpartum medicine. In 2016, she founded a fourth trimester home-based model of care, Tova Health, that is rethinking and innovating how we can better provide care in our country for families during this fundamental life moment.
She received her BA in visual arts from Barnard college and her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. As a visual artist, her work often focuses on the body and birth.
She paints each morning at her art studio/ barn at Schwamb Mill in Arlington, MA before heading off to her medical practice where she provides newborn and postpartum care for families in their homes.
Her paintings are conversations about biology, metamorphosis and the human experience. She is playful with size and material — often working on very large canvases that cover her entire barn floor. Improvisational and gestural, she experiments with her materials — creating paint with egg, clay, wood resin and other natural pigments.
The theme of her work is often about our human experience - about the messiness and beauty of these transformation life moments. She plays with materials that she uses in her medical practice and that hold memory and conversation around birth and the postpartum phase — like receiving blankets, surgical sutures, peribottles and medical text books. In one of her longterm projects, Birth Stories, she paints on stretched hospital baby blankets.
Her studio / barn is also a space where she hosts gatherings, curates group exhibitions and concerts. She is currently a scholar at the WSRC at Brandeis University focusing on feminism, healthcare and art.
She is also one of the cofounder and sister of Sisters Body , a microbiome-friendly hair and body line that donates 40% of their profits to reproductive rights.
She lives in Arlington with her husband Aaron and their three kids- Rafi, Felix and Hugo.
“Eva Zasloff’s “Reflections of light on breastmilk particles” (2018) took images of the microscopic particles and projected them into an intimate space at MIT. This telescoping in on breast milk offers shifting perspectives on what it signifies, as delicate orbs float across the field of vision like stars. A galaxy of proteins, minerals, fats, antibodies, and bioactive components — which makes milk a living substance — are revealed in this close examination. Responsive to a baby’s needs, every mother’s milk is different. Zasloff herself cares for families as a physician in the postpartum period, and her art is a reminder of the scale and specificity of maternal work,“ Wolfarth, Hyperallergic, 2023.
“(Zasloff) fills canvases with rounded shapes that seem to stretch and swell, hinting at changing bodies, dividing cells, and movements in utero. Her process is intuitive and improvisational;” Houton, Boston Magazine, 2025.
“Her striking forms call to mind the movements and shapes of one human body tending to another,” Nicole Lipson, Thinkers Who Mother, 2023.
“An abstract piece from the Mother series, Zasloff’s ongoing reflection on the sacred passage from one body to two, elegantly captures the dark scoop of a dark form wrapped around a smaller , lighter one, although they still appear as one, “ McQuaid, Boston Globe, 2023.
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS (Selected)
Jacqueline Houton, “A Doctor Paints Motherhood in an Arlington Barn”, Boston Magazine, 2025. Link
Joanna Wolfarth, “The History of Breast Milk in Art”, Hyperallergic, 2023. Link
Cate McQuaid, “A doctor-painter shows what life is like in the fourth trimester”, Boston Globe, 2023. Link
Nicole Lipson, “The Fourth Trimester Plight of New Mothers During the Pandemic”, Boston Globe Magazine, 2020. Link
Brooke Bobb, “This All-Natural Beauty Line by Three Sisters Will Change the Way You Shower”, Vogue, 2018. Link
Andrea Shea, “A Gift, A Challenge, An Isolating Experience: Artists Explore The Complexities of Breastfeeding,” WBUR News, 2018. Link
RESIDENCIES & APPOINTMENTS
Scholar, WSRC, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 2025–Present
Focus: Art + Our Bodies | Explorations of the Newborn, Postpartum and Other Transformational BiologyArtist Resident, Arts & Sciences Residency Program, Peaked Hill Trust, Provincetown, MA, June–July 2025
Engaged with natural landscapes to create site-responsive works exploring ecology and memory.Governing Board Member, Catalyst Conversations, Cambridge, MA, Spring 2025–Present
Advancing dialogue between leading artists and scientists. Focus on programming and advisory work.Advisory Board, MIT Breastpump Hackathon, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, 2018
Supported innovation in maternal health technology through design informed perspective.
