Nicole Eisenman
Dicecream Magazine🔳Nicole Eisenman (born 1965) is an American artist who is known primarily for her paintings.Â
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Eisenman's figurative oil paintings often toy with themes of sexuality, comedy, and caricature.
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Though she is known for her paintings, the artist also creates installations, drawings, prints, and sculptures.
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With A.L. Steiner, she is the co-founder of the queer/feminist curatorial initiative Ridykeulous.
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Eisenman's paintings often represent expressionistic portraits of characters that she says are portrayed as her friends and even herself.Â
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These characters are based on Eisenman's observations of life from a cultural and contemporary perspective.
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Most of her early work style was an inspiration from Edvard Munch, Philip Guston  and Amy Sillman.
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“She doesn’t passively genuflect in front of art history,” the critic and curator Massimiliano Gioni wrote. “She resurrects it and camouflages it into our present.”Â
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