Nicole Eisenman, STY, 2025
Nicole Eisenman: STY
52 Walker is pleased to announce its seventeenth exhibition, STY, featuring the work of New York–based artist Nicole Eisenman. The show presents a new sculptural group with video elements and a selection of paintings, which include those realized for the exhibition and important loans from public and private collections.
In a prolific career spanning over thirty years, Eisenman has become known for expressive figurative canvases and sculptures that capture moments of contemporary life with élan, humor, and gravitas. From the late 1990s onward, the artist has pursued a practice that centers perspectives peripheral to dominant narratives, lacing intimate subject matter with cues from attendant political and social milieus. Paying homage to twentieth-century interwar styles and movements such as the Neue Sachlichkeit while exercising a distinct visual language, Eisenman wryly deploys allegory and genre to survey the spirits and tensions that mediate our broad experience of history and culture.
Eisenman’s monumental sculpture Fixed Crane (2024) was recently on view through March 2025 at Madison Square Park in New York. From 2023 to 2024, the major institutional survey Nicole Eisenman: What Happened traveled from Museum Brandhorst, Munich, to Whitechapel Gallery, London, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.