Nicole Eisenman

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Nicole Eisenman (* 1965 in Verdun , France ) is an American artist who became known for her figurative painterly work.

life and work

Eisenman was born in Verdun , France , because her father, a US Army psychiatrist, was stationed there. She grew up in Scarsdale , New York , and studied at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence . There she graduated in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in painting. As early as 1986 she received the “Rhode Island School of Design Year in Rome Award” as part of the “European Honors Program”.

Eisenman formed into its neo-realist painting from different stylistic and compositional elements of art history, from the Renaissance , about the history painting , to the modern, playful new contemporary statements. Here she ties in with her Italian painter colleague Renato Guttuso (1912–1986). In her compositions she integrates elements of media culture such as comic drawings , pornography , everyday TV life and advertising.

In 1994 and 1995, the artist participated in exhibitions with Rachel Lachowitz (* 1964) and Janine Antoni (* 1964) at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, the New Museum, New York, and the New Wight Gallery in Los Angeles, with the common title "Bad Girls", part. A young American generation of female artists showed feminist positions in which they gave socially critical expressions a sexual-feminist connotation.

At the 1997 Whitney Biennial , she showed “Exploding Whitney”, a large-format wall painting depicting the destroyed museum. In an installation with a drawing, she ironically commented on the subject of art and commerce. In 2007 the Kunsthalle Zürich presented a comprehensive exhibition of the artist's work, which was subsequently shown at Le Plateau (FRAC Ile de France) in Paris.

Eisenman has received funding from the John Simon Guggenheim Grant , the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, and the Penny McCall Foundation Grant , among others . In 2015 she received a MacArthur Fellowship . In 2018 she was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters . The artist lives and works in New York .

In the exhibition Shifting the Gaze. Painting and Feminism , which was shown at the Jewish Museum (New York City) in 2010, featured her painting Seder .

Eisenman took part in the exhibition Sculpture Projects 2017 in Münster with the project Sketch for a Fountain . It is a sculptural ensemble or a fountain with a water basin and several figures, including two bronze figures and three plaster figures. The project was set up on a meadow on the promenade level with the Kreuztor in Münster. Since the end of the exhibition, a citizens' initiative has been seeking donations in order to acquire the fountain for the city of Münster in the long term.

literature

  • Victor Mathieu (Ed.): Nicole Eisenman, Selected Works 1994-2004 . Walther König, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-88375-918-0
  • Lutz Becker, Uwe Koch (eds.): Flypaper 4, 'Nicole Eisenman, Consciousness Razing' . flypaper, Cologne 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Kunsthalle Zurich, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunsthallezurich.ch
  2. ↑ Betsy Stirratt, Catherine Johnson: Feminine persuasion: art and essays on sexuality . Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University, Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2003, ISBN 978-0-253-21589-5 , p. 58.
  3. ↑ Nicole Eisenman, 50, living in New York City , NPR September 29, 2017, accessed October 8, 2018.
  4. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 10, 2019 .
  5. ↑ In the shadow of ingenious macho . In: FAZ , October 29, 2010, page 36.
  6. ↑ More detailed description of the project on the website of the SkulpturProjekte 2017, accessed on October 12, 2018.
  7. ^ Website of the citizens' initiative. Retrieved October 12, 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME Eisenman, Nicole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Verdun , France