Nicole Eisenman

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Nicole Eisenman (born in Verdun, France 1965) is a visual artist living and working in new York.

Faye Hirsch wrote in Art in America:

"Eisenman's brand of satirical realism, her narrative ambition and her skill as a muralist--she has completed monumental wall drawings every other year or so since her emergence on the art scene in 1993--1ink her to the American scene painters of the Depression era" ... "Eisenman embeds her theme in visual culture past and present, exploiting to great effect the dissonance that has become her particular stock in trade. Whether to skewer art-world politics and intellectual trends (as she does in Pen & Ink, this issue, where she uses elements of Hogarth's 1750 print Gin Lane to poke fun at "the abject"), or to pay back-handed compliments to the past, Eisenman takes aim at the masters--Picasso, Tiepolo, Hogarth, et al.--from her redoubt in a dyke punk milieu."

Her work is shown at Susanne Vielmetter Projects in LA, Leo Koenig Gallery in NY and Barbara Weiss Gallery in Berlin.

She is included in many museum collections including The Museum of modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Denver Museum, SF Museum of Modern Art, and the Hessel.