Nicole Eisenman: Maker's Muck
Special Edition Published by Hauser & Wirth Publishers.
Text by hannah baer, Hannah Black, Durga Chew-Bose, Cyrus Dunham, Sheila Heti, Alhena Katsof, Shiv Kotecha, Matt Longabucco, Sam McKinniss, Ryan McNamara, Tess Pollok, et al. An exquisitely designed special edition volume dedicated to Eisenman’s absurdist sculptural ensemble Produced in a limited print run of 500 copies, this special edition conceived in close collaboration with the artist features a silkscreened linen jacket with a tipped-on image inside the flap. Each copy is numbered and has a line of acrylic “muck” hand-piped onto its spine.
At the center of New York–based artist Nicole Eisenman’s (born 1965) sculpture Maker’s Muck, an outsize plaster figure sits hunched over a potter’s wheel, on which a mound of ersatz clay interminably spins. The floor teems with sculptures. Some of the pieces are fully rendered and recognizable: a dog, a ketchup bottle. Eisenman has invited several authors to follow the trajectories of Maker’s Muck and its many objects in essays, metafictional reflections and other experiments in interpretation.
Authors include: hannah baer, Hannah Black, Caren Beilin, Durga Chew-Bose, Cyrus Dunham, Sheila Heti, Alhena Katsof, Shiv Kotecha, Matt Longabucco, Sam McKinniss, Ryan McNamara, Tess Pollok, Sarah Nicole Prickett, Sam Roeck, Jasmine Sanders, Lynne Tillman, Janique Vigier.
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