Nicole Eisenman

🔳Nicole Eisenman (born 1965) is an American artist who is known primarily for her paintings. 

Eisenman's figurative oil paintings often toy with themes of sexuality, comedy, and caricature.

Though she is known for her paintings, the artist also creates installations, drawings, prints, and sculptures.

With A.L. Steiner, she is the co-founder of the queer/feminist curatorial initiative Ridykeulous.

Eisenman's paintings often represent expressionistic portraits of characters that she says are portrayed as her friends and even herself. 

These characters are based on Eisenman's observations of life from a cultural and contemporary perspective.

Most of her early work style was an inspiration from Edvard Munch, Philip Guston  and Amy Sillman.

“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.” 

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