Monday, Nov 18th

Nicole Eisenman's Work on Display at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg

eisenmanWorld renown artist Nicole Eisenman has now extended her reach to Russia where her work is included in the Manifesta 10 show, a biennial of contemporary art at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. Her painting shown here is included. Eisenman is an SHS graduate and the daughter of former Scarsdale Village Trustee Kay Eisenman. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated in 1987. Eisenman's work includes paintings and sculpture that examine gender, politics, and cultural norms and has been the subject of recent exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, MO, USA (2014); the Berkeley Art Museum, CA, USA (2013); Studio Voltaire, London (2012); Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland (2007); and Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (2005), among others. Her work was shown in the 1995 and 2012 Whitney Biennials. She won the Carnegie Prize in 2013. He works are owned my MOMA, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA; Kunsthalle Zürich; and Museum Ludwig, Cologne and she holds a teaching appointment at Bard College in eisenman2Annandale-on-Hudson.

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