Nicole Eisenman - (Contemporary Painters) by Dan Cameron (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

With a body of work that explores a broad spectrum of subjects - from lesbianism and feminism to contemporary politics and the natural world - Nicole Eisenman (b.1965) challenges convention and encourages viewers to construe meanings from images that demand interrogation and debate.

Illustrating paintings spanning the early 1990s to the present day, Dan Cameron unpacks the complexities of Eisenman's oeuvre via thematic chapters that address key ideas which emerge when drawing specific works together. As such, this first major account of Eisenman's painting career, presents a clear analysis of the primary motivators that have fuelled the imagination of one of the most interesting and original contemporary artists working today.

Review Quotes

'"A chameleon" is what Dan Cameron calls outstanding artist Nicole Eisenman at the very beginning of this brilliant essay. And while he is sensitively trying to fix in her words her shivering appearance as a painter, a great collection of images gives him the best imaginable support. Based on long-term research Cameron has compiled a long-overdue retrospective of one of the most thrilling contemporary artists. The result fells like an excitingly new encounter with an old love.'--Kasper Koenig

'An indispensable introduction to THE painter of modern life. Nicole Eisenman's prodigious body of work bears witness to moments of being, whether too intoxicated, too fleeting, too absurd, or too uncanny to feel see-able by anything but history itself, or the ones who know and love you best.'--Ariana Reines

About the Author

Dan Cameron is a New York-based curator, art writer and educator best known for having founded Prospect New Orleans, the triennial art exhibition that began operations shortly after Hurricane Katrina, from 2006 to 2011, and is currently preparing its fifth edition. For over a decade (1995-2006), his exhibitions as Senior Curator at the New Museum, New York, included now-historic surveys of William Kentridge, Faith Ringgold, Carolee Schneemann, David Wojnarowicz and Martin Wong. Cameron worked as Chief Curator at Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, California (2012-2015), along with directing international art biennials in Istanbul (2003), Taipei (2006), Cuenca (2016) and Kansas City (2018). He was most recently guest curator for the 2019 retrospective of Leandro Erlich at MALBA in Buenos Aires.