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Article: Nicole Eisenman at Trial Balloon. (New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- December 1, 1993
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When I think about writing about Nicole Eisenman's work, which I've followed for about a year, I get like one of her characters ("Hoo boy!"), and sweat starts popping out of my face in cartoonish drops. On the sbribbly left wall of her first solo show at Trial Balloon, there was an agitated female character, and bursting out of her vagina were two little smiling faces, arms outstretched to the world, and their words were splayed too, sans balloon: "Hi Mom, surprise we're twins." If female creativity has its apotheosis irl giving birth, and being female is, as some post-modern theorists tell us, inherently excessive and outside the law, then Nicole Eisenman has given us a ...
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