A Profile of the artist Nicole Eisenman, who constructs figurative, narrative images filled with angst, jokes, and art-historical memory.
,” Eisenman said. “At the age of five or so, all kids have kind of round faces, big eyes, little noses.” She looked at Freddy. “Like you have. Kids look alike more than adults look alike, I would say.”
Two decades ago, some of the subject matter of her drawings began appearing in paintings of this kind. “Fishing” shows silkily rendered, Michelangelo-shouldered women gathered around an ice hole through which a trussed male figure is about to be lowered, apparently as bait. Robinson, who met Eisenman at this time, later told me, “Ithat painting—I loved how tight and detailed it was.” Eisenman told me that during this period “painting always felt like work, and not fun.
In Brooklyn, Eisenman began to blog; she wrote about art shows, her pet parrot, and the rock musician Pete Doherty. She maintained a tone of jokey good cheer—“gentle reader,” and so on—except when criticizing the British artist Damien Hirst, a “wanker hack.” The result, “Biergarten at Night” , was built out of a combination of life studies and imagined figures. It shows the yard of a packed Brooklyn bar, under Renoirish lights, and, among many other figures, it includes two iterations of Victoria Robinson and one of Death, whose head is a skull. Eisenman has described the scene as a moment of communal giddy drunkenness on the verge of turning uglier.
A few years later, Eisenman was on Fire Island, walking to buy groceries, when her phone rang, and she was told that she’d won a MacArthur award. The citation’s remarks about reënergizing figuration took her by surprise. She had recognized that she’d been working in an era marked by an abundance of abstraction. “Some of my favorite painters are abstract painters,” she recently said. “But I like the story.
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