Renowned Artist Nicole Eisenman at WRT on November 9

Internationally-renowned painter, sculptor and printmaker Nicole Eisenman -- who grew up in Scarsdale -- will discuss her work at Westchester Reform Temple on Sunday, November 9. The discussion will be moderated by Laura Hoptman, Curator of contemporary art in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art. The discussion and reception are open to the public and begin at 4:00pm; there is no charge and reservations are not necessary. A selection of Eisenman's work is on display at the temple until early January.

Eisenman's work ranges from the absurd and irreverent to the abject and meditative. Drawing on sources as divergent as classical mythology and the visual conventions of the art historical canon, her imagery offers a forthright, at times comedic and critical, and invariably probing meditation on contemporary life. Eisenman's uncanny capacity for capturing human joy, pain, embarrassment and ecstasy unites the disparate subject matter.

Nicole Eisenman is currently the subject of the mid-career survey exhibition Dear Nemesis: Nicole Eisenman 1993-2014, at the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia. Her work is also featured in Manifesta 10, curated by Kasper König, at the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Eisenman was awarded the 2014 Anonymous Was a Woman Award and the Carnegie Prize for the 2013 Carnegie International in Pittsburgh. The artist lives and works in New York.

Laura Hoptman has been a Curator of contemporary art in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art since 2010, where she has organized Isa Genzken: Retrospective, the first American survey of this artist's work; Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, a group exhibition of contemporary art dealing with language; Carol Bove: The Equinox; and Artist's Choice: Trisha Donnelly.