Nicole Eisenman: What Happened: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Nicole Eisenman: What Happened is the first major exhibition surveying Nicole Eisenman’s expansive artistic practice, bringing together roughly 100 works produced from 1992 to today. Formally inventive and materially ambitious, Eisenman works across a range of formats and techniques, from painting to drawing to large-scale murals and installations. A similar sense of variety carries forward into the artist’s subject matter, which features an array of cultural and historical sources, including Renaissance painting, underground comics, and 1930s socialist murals, among many others. Through careful juxtaposition and idiosyncratic detail, Eisenman confronts the most pressing crises of our time, examining significant contemporary moments with a style and vision that is entirely her own.