Nicole Eisenman
Subtitle: the way we weren't
By: Ian Berry
Contributors: Eisenman, Nicole, 1965-; Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery
Series: Opener -- 17; Opener -- 17.
Publisher: The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Saratoga Springs, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 71
ISBN-13: 9780982148600
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Way we weren't
Description: "Nicole Eisenman’s psychologically revealing work includes installations, drawings, animations, and, increasingly, paintings. Eisenman’s unique brand of humor permeates her work. Simultaneously playful, biting, and raunchy, she challenges cultural and social norms associated with gender and sexuality, popular culture, and the current art scene. Nicole Eisenman: The Way We Weren’t features a new series of paintings that extend her perceptive social critique. Surly and melancholic figures crowd her scenes of street corners and beer gardens, drowning their shared discontent in alcohol and reveling in the anonymity of the crowd. While Eisenman’s disenchanted figures feel unmistakably contemporary, the scenes also hearken back to earlier times, recalling Impressionist and German Expressionist paintings that share a similar fascination with human interaction and isolation."
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Sept. 26, 2009-Jan. 3, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-68).