Nicole Eisenman: What Happened

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The artist's most comprehensive monograph to date, traversing thirty years of Eisenman's engagement with the technological, political and social changes which have shaped our lives.

From drawing and painting to print-making and sculpture, Nicole Eisenman's practice combines formal experimentation with wide-ranging references to art history. Her critical and often humorous commentary on the ever-changing nature of public life consistently challenges power structures and normative conceptions of gender.

Nicole Eisenman: What Happened documents the breadth of the artist's career with over 200 color illustrations, explored in ten newly commissioned texts. Essays by curators Mark Godfrey and Monika Bayer-Wermuth survey developments in Eisenman's work since the 1990s, while Chloe Wvma considers Eisenman's recent engagements with national and institutional politics.

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Eisenman's will to investigate and to generate presents an example that overall is inspiring. Her force of mind, both aesthetic and political, is magnetic.--Julian Bell "New York Review of Books"

Author Bio

Nicole Eisenman lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2018. Her work was included in the 2019 Venice Biennale, 2019 Whitney Biennial, and 2017 Skulptur Projekte Mnster in Mnster, Germany. Having established herself as a painter, Nicole Eisenman has expanded her practice into the third dimension.

Contributors include: Jadine Collingwood, Britta Peters, Ann Philbin, Helena Reckitt, Joe Scotland, A.L. Steiner and Nicola Tyson.