What I value in other people’s art and my own is imagination and personal things. Politics just seems to me to be mean-spirited and trendy. I don’t see myself as being in a combative stance.
Eisenman uses humor in a way that sets her apart from many of her contemporaries who are involved in a political kind of art based on a feminist, lesbian identity. With a flair for drawing that is as easy to read as a Saturday Evening Post illustration, she lures you in, then stops you in your tracks with content that might not be so funny…