Exhibition of works by Nicole Eisenman and Keith Boadwee opens at FLAG
Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY
.- The recipient of The Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize, Nicole Eisenman created thematically-linked solo exhibitions for The Contemporary Austin (Sturm und Drang, February 27-November 15, 2020) and FLAG (December 12, 2020 - March 13, 2021). Eisenman expanded the exhibition at FLAG to include artist Keith Boadwee; their shared use of humor and critical observation questions both real and imagined power structures, upends art history, and lampoons notions of good taste.
Nicole Eisenman employs a plurality of styles and visual references in her drawings, paintings, and sculptures to give shape to the many forms of the human condition. At FLAG, Eisenmans cast of characters are emblematic of the patriarchyfrat guys, paunchy businessmen, and bald eaglesthe foundations of which she gleefully undermines through absurdity, caricature, and gallows humor. A conc