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Dear Nemesis, Nicole Eisenman 1993–2013 Is Organized Complimentary Coffee and Baked Goods Nicole Eisenman (b. 1965, Verdun, France) lives and Gallery Guide works in New York City. Eisenman was recently awarded Related Programs Contemporary Art the Carnegie Prize for her work in the 2013 Carnegie Museum St. Louis International. Recent solo exhibitions include MATRIX 248, Berkeley Art Museum (2013); ‘Tis but a scratch’ January 24– ‘A scratch?! Your arm’s off!’ ‘No, it isn’t.,’ Studio Voltaire, April 13, 2014 London (2012); Nicole Eisenman: The Way We Weren’t, The Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (2009); and Nicole Eisenman, Kunsthalle Zurich (2007). Her work has been featured in numerous group Free and open to the public unless exhibitions such as NYC 1993: Experimental otherwise noted. For a complete list of Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York programs, please visit camstl.org. (2013); the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2012, 1995); Prospect.2 New Opening Night Orleans (2011); and 100 Artists See God, The Jewish Friday, January 24, 7:00–9:00 pm Museum, San Francisco (2004); among many others. Eisenman is the recipient of several awards including Artist Talk: Nicole Eisenman a John Simon Guggenheim Grant, The Joan Mitchell Saturday, January 25, 11:00 am Dear Nemesis, Foundation Grant, and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant. Nicole Eisenman discusses her work on view and Her work is in the collections of many museums her practice. including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Nicole Eisenman Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Walker Art Center, Friday Evening Tours Minneapolis; and The Ludwig Museum, Cologne. Fridays, January 31–April 11, 6:00 pm Take advantage of CAM’s late hours on Friday 1993–2013 evenings and stop by for a special 30-minute tour of The exhibition and catalog are generously supported by the Andy the exhibitions. Associate Curator Kelly Shindler leads Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Koenig & Clinton, New York; the tour on April 4. Karin and Peter Haas; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; Ringier AG, Zürich; Richard Gerrig and Timothy Peterson; and Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin. Breakfast with the Curators Friday, March 21, 8:30 am Nicole Eisenman, Breakup, 2011. Oil and mixed media on panel, 56 x 43 inches. Dear Nemesis, Nicole Eisenman 1993–2013 is organized Complimentary coffee and baked goods. for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis by Kelly Shindler, Private collection, Los Angeles. Courtesy the artist and Register at camstl.org/breakfast. Associate Curator. Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer CAM members are invited for breakfast and a private tour of the exhibitions. Over the past twenty years, American artist Nicole Her narrative depictions and renderings of women’s Sunday Studio: Monoprint Eisenman has developed a creative and versatile vision bodies proclaim an ardently feminist world and imbue Sunday, March 30, 1:00 pm that combines personal experience and subject figurative art with an audaciously queer sensibility. By $5; free for members matter with virtuosic skill. Her work offers incisive refusing to limit herself to one particular style and Recommended for ages 16 and up. sociopolitical critique by operating in the realm of the incorporating a dose of both humor and discomfort, she Register at camstl.org/sundaystudio. everyday and the absurd, playfully communicating the creates work that echoes the frenetic pace and shifting Inspired by Nicole Eisenman’s prints, artist Gina Alvarez multifaceted richness of the human experience. complexion of contemporary life. leads a hands-on workshop on monoprinting. Depicting themes and settings as varied as bar This definitive mid-career survey charts the development Poetry Reading: Mary Jo Bang, Devin Johnston, scenes, motherhood, and the plight of the artist, of Eisenman’s practice from the early 1990s to the and Carl Phillips Eisenman fuses contemporary subject matter with present across painting, printmaking, drawing, and Wednesday, April 2, 7:00 pm art historical influences ranging from Renaissance sculpture. Bringing together more than 120 works of art— Using the poetry collection The Triumph of Poverty: chiaroscuro to twentieth century social realist from early ink-on-paper drawings to recent explorations Poetry Inspired by the Work of Nicole Eisenman as a point painting. In forging this connection between the in printmaking and sculpture—the exhibition offers a Connect with CAM of departure, poets Mary Jo Bang, Devin Johnston, and present and the past, Eisenman reminds us how art comprehensive presentation that firmly establishes Carl Phillips read from their own work. Poet Jessica Baran can be a relevant vehicle for progress. Eisenman at the forefront of artmaking today. Visit camstl.org hosts the evening and reads excerpts from the book. Follow @contemporarystl on Twitter Member Book Club Like contemporaryart Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa museumstl on Facebook Thursday, April 10, 6:00 pm Contemporary Art Sign up for enews Register at camstl.org/bookclub. Museum St. Louis at camstl.org/news Chosen by exhibiting artist Nicole Eisenman, Mario Vargas Audio Tour 3750 Washington Blvd Download the Llosa’s novel The Feast of the Goat has been called “a Download the CAM app at camstl.org/app or St. Louis, MO 63108 CAM STL app from the fierce, edgy and enthralling book” by the New York Times. ask for an iPod at the front desk to hear directly 314.535.4660 App Store or Google Play from the artist and curator on the audio tour. Guide to Selected Works in the Exhibition Hamlet, 2007 Raging Brook Farm, 2004 Oil on canvas Watercolor on prepared paper Collection of Karin and Peter Haas The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Hamlet combines several recurring leitmotifs in Drawings Collection Gift, 2005 Eisenman’s practice. Chief among them is the alter ego: Eisenman often inserts her own Suggesting a utopian commune, Raging Brook Farm likeness or that of someone she identifies with is the name Eisenman and her partner gave to their into various settings and situations. The artist house in upstate New York upon moving there in 2003. describes 2007 as a “particularly sad year This watercolor, rendered as a vivid monochrome of politically” at the end of George W. Bush’s second Delft blue, depicts a bucolic landscape inhabited solely term as President of the United States, and as an by women. Unlike many of Eisenman’s other female antidote, she began painting figures who could group scenes, which often depict an act of violence or serve as her role models. Here, she depicts the early discomfort, here, she creates the ideal, Edenic world. twentieth-century comedian and actor Buster Her subjects fish, hunt, lay bricks, make love, sunbathe, Keaton—with whom she happens to share a slight and do yoga, with animals as their only non-human resemblance—as a protagonist from another time. companions. The composition of active figures In Hamlet, Keaton assumes the role of Shakespeare’s on the dense picture plane recalls the depiction of famously indecisive Danish prince. He holds a sword paradise in Hieronymous Bosch’s Garden of Earthly in one hand and a skull in the other, his feet nearly Delights (1480–1505) as well as the decorative immersed in a beam of white light emanating from the patterns found in chinoiserie wallpaper. While the black background. Among the portraits installed on women here engage in realistic and productive tasks, The Triumph of Poverty, 2009 this wall, this painting, along with Deep Sea Diver, seemingly rooting the scene in the realm of the Oil on canvas is notable for its unusual full-body pose, which directly real, ultimately Eisenman’s depiction of a radical Collection of Dr. Thomas J. Huerter confront us as viewers. The composition, coupled lesbian fantasy is tinged with a deep irony, inhabitable with the vibrantly swirling colors of the costumes, only in one’s imagination. This work shares its name with an allegorical painting reinforces the diver’s and Hamlet’s critical status as (c. 1533) by Hans Holbein the Younger that depicts a metaphors for thoughtfulness and introspection. procession of Virtues and Vices who suggest an array of Sleeping Frat Guy, 2013 conditions that result in poverty and misfortune. In Plaster, ceramic, and leather string Untitled, 2011 Eisenman’s contemporary treatment, a group of Collection of Cathy and Jonathan Miller Mixed media and monotype on paper characters stand at the threshold of a bucolic country Hall Collection setting with a darkly ravaged landscape looming in While she has made sculptures since the 1990s, the background. Various markers of destitution— Eisenman resumed the practice in earnest during a Monotypes downtrodden expressions, a man’s empty pockets, a month-long residency in 2011 at Studio Voltaire in 2011–12 rusty car, rats—are paired with the ridiculous— London, and has been making busts and full-bodied fantastical complexions of red and burnt ochre, a nude figures ever since. The selection of six busts on view The works on view here are part of a larger body of recent figure with patchwork-like skin, and a male figure in in Dear Nemesis—poised both sideways and upright— monotypes that Eisenman created in 2011 and 2012, a suit and top hat whose trousers have fallen to reveal share the same title. They are rough-hewn and many of which were exhibited in the 2012 Whitney Biennial. his “ass-backwards” disposition—to lend the scene handmade from plaster, with Eisenman’s mark making Often considered the most painterly of printmaking an air of extreme pathos. At the bottom right of the into and manipulation of the material purposely left processes, monotype involves the application of layers of frame, a line of tiny figures in anachronistic dress trails evident.
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