frowny face
IN A SERIES OF MIXED-MEDIA WORKS ON PAPER, NICOLE EISENMAN LOOKS SADNESS IN ITS BIG, CARTOONED FACE I’m showing a new series of works on paper at the Whitney Biennial, they are a combination of printing, drawing, and collage. I am returning to working on paper, which I did when I was in the ’95 Biennial but had since abandoned for the past 10 years to focus on painting. There are a few themes running through the work; separation and the accompanying feeling of sadness is one of them. I was thinking about depicting sadness in a very direct, almost ridiculous, cartoony way—there are a lot of big crying eyeballs in this group of pictures. I have a show of new work opening at Leo Koenig Gallery [New York] in May; the imagery very much reflects my life in 2011. Thank god that fucking annus horribilis is over. Nicole Eisenman Nicole Eisenman in New York, January 2012