"Nicole Eisenman, Whitechapel Gallery, London
American artist Nicole Eisenman’s work occupies a painted territory that encompasses a mix of caricature, political commentary and autobiography. Throughout ‘What Happened’, she reckons with the absurdity and contradictions of artmaking, deploying a collapse of historical styles and references. Of the artist’s relationship to literature, novelist Isabel Waidner observed: ‘Eisenman is an effortlessly referential painter who draws on source material as diverse as renaissance art, 1930s socialist murals and cartoons like Bambi (1942).’
Mike Silva, The Approach, London
Whispering curtains, kitchen cabinets and parched succulents populate the universe of Mike Silva. His hazy sepia and cloudy green oil-on-linen paintings of nostalgic interiors are obfuscations of photographic memories. Finn Blythe visited ‘New Paintings’ at The Approach in July: ‘By carefully balancing light and dark, interior and exterior, past and present, Silva attempts to reconcile photography with memory and, ultimately, transience with loss.’'
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