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Including just five major paintings and a 3-part sculpture group, Nicole Eisenman<\/a>\u2019s solo at 52 Walker<\/a> is selective but powerful, presenting new work that comments on art world practice and a political climate hostile to artists.\u00a0 In one piece, an artist stands painting in a foxhole while a tank rolls by overhead; elsewhere, a painter in a beret has dropped enough paint on the studio floor and walls to create a bunker that isolates as much as it protects.\u00a0 The show\u2019s largest work pictures an art opening crowded with generic abstract sculptures and young people, one of whom pickpockets a worshipful collector while a pig in a military uniform (echoing a sculpture at the 1920 Berlin Dada exhibition) hovers overhead.\u00a0 Here, a cartoonish man on the right bids on a painting of an auction scene while a mustachioed, beret-wearing artist on the left looks grimly on, a painting of a painting of a painting that questions the reality of anything we see in art market practice.\u00a0 (On view through Jan 10th<\/sup> in Tribeca).<\/p>\n

Nicole Eisenman, The Auction, oil on canvas and linen, 105 x 137 inches, 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Including just five major paintings and a 3-part sculpture group, Nicole Eisenman\u2019s solo at 52 Walker is selective but powerful, presenting new work that comments on art world practice and a political climate hostile to artists.\u00a0 In one piece, an artist stands painting in a foxhole while a tank rolls by overhead; elsewhere, a painter … <\/p>\n

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