Nicole Eisenman and Ebony L. Haynes in Conversation at 52 Walker

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

, the seventeenth exhibition at 52 Walker, features 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 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.

ABOUT 52 WALKER

52 Walker is a David Zwirner gallery space programmed and led by Ebony L. Haynes. The gallery takes its name from its location at 52 Walker Street in Tribeca, and occupies the first and lower floors of the five-story landmark building. Departing from the traditional commercial gallery format, 52 Walker's exhibition schedule resembles that of a kunsthalle with longer presentation timelines.

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