Nicole Eisenman
Purple Loose Strife
digital print
28 x 21 cm.
Edition of 20 + 5AP
2021
Purple Loose Strife
digital print
28 x 21 cm.
Edition of 20 + 5AP
2021
Purple Loose Strife
digital print
28 x 21 cm.
Edition of 20 + 5AP
2021
“It’s different being a woman in the Pines. The reason I come back every year is this feeling of privacy. I love being nude on a beach all summer; I might as well be sea grass, or a sandpiper. I also love the friends I’ve made out here. It’s wonderful to build these relationships over time. You come out every summer, and sometimes it’s the same people and sometimes it’s different people. There’s the Pines everybody thinks of — the mainstream party scene — and then there’s this other parallel world of art queerdos that I float in, a loose association of friends and friends of friends who flow through. ”
Nicole Eisenman is a Brooklyn-based artist whose depictions of social environments shift between abstraction and figuration. Their keen eye for our contemporary condition and attention to its details—its hoodies, cigarettes or flower bouquets—home in on the frictions and complexities of being alive in the world today. Purple Loose Strife is a print from a watercolor of the flower which grows in the Fire Island Pines, adjacent to the Long Island Sound. The Loose Strife flower has a long history of medicinal use, and Fire Island Pines is an area historically associated with the LGBTQ community.
Having established themself as a painter, Nicole has expanded their practice into the third dimension. They are a MacArthur Foundation fellow and were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2018. Their work was included in the 2019 Venice Biennale and in three Whitney Biennials. Selected solo exhibitions include the Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo, Norway; Contemporary Austin; Staatliche Kunsthalle in Baden-Baden; Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles; Secession, Vienna, the New Museum, New York; Anton Kern Gallery, New York; Barbara Weiss Galerie, Berlin and Hauser and Wirth, Somerset.