Nicole Eisenman is a contemporary American artist known for her inventive, figurative painting and sculptures. Utilizing bright colors and wry subject matter, Eisenman’s complex paintings tackle tropes of Western art history. The artist gleans inspiration from a variety of sources, including queer culture, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Maria Lassnig. “She doesn’t passively genuflect in front of art history,” the critic and curator Massimiliano Gioni wrote. “She resurrects it and camouflages it into our present.” Born 1965 in Verdun, France where her father was stationed as an Army psychiatrist, she grew up in Scarsdale, NY went on to study at the Rhode Island School of Design. Eisenman has participated in the...