© Sadie Coles HQ Savile Row
© Sadie Coles HQ Savile Row
Nicole Eisenman
23 September 2026 to 21 November 2026
Critic score
A major solo show of seven new 2026 paintings by Nicole Eisenman, from fleshy geometric figure scenes to starlit realism, timed with her Royal Academy courtyard sculpture.
From Sadie Coles HQ Savile Row
It is the province of art to contain multitudes that need not (thank god) look precisely like the real world, whatever that is. At Sadie Coles HQ, seven new works (all 2026) by the French-born U.S. artist Nicole Eisenman are most prodigiously united by their incredible variety in form and subject, her singular painterly attention to surface and texture, and a compositional awareness of how many universes (spaces, lives, sensibilities, dimensions) one canvas can hold....
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TimeOut
Annabel Downes
Nicole Eisenman
"Crucially, it works because Eisenman can really, really paint. Her figures can be cartoonishly distorted, but their world is the one that we inhabit. The grotesquery isn't an escape from reality; rather a way of making reality look as strange as it feels these days."
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Ben Eastham
ICE-like goons clash with sublime stargazing as America’s magical magpie returns
"The painting is overwhelming, not only for its scale but also for its dazzling variety of tones and textures, from the schematic design of the planets to its impasto treatment of the moss on the stones, which blooms from the surface of the canvas in wild green clumps. The effect is sublime."
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