Nicole Eisenman’s “Fixed Crane” Opening in Madison Square Park

Oval Lawn, Madison Square Park

Artist Nicole Eisenman (b. 1965, France) realizes Fixed Crane, centering a decommissioned, toppled 1969 Link-Belt crane lain across the park’s Oval Lawn. Embellished with handmade sculptural figurative forms, the work destabilizes familiar heroic objects associated with human achievement and exploration.

A longtime NYC resident, Eisenman questions cycles of movement in urban space and how the human condition is central to ongoing urban construction. Eisenman is a contemporary painter, printmaker, and sculptor, with a wide body of work on the human condition that can be bleak or humorous. She is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2018. Her work was included in the 2019 Venice Biennale and 2019 Whitney Biennial.

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