Nicole Eisenman, Maker’s Muck (detail), 2022 © Nicole Eisenman. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Tom Powel

Book Launch & Reading: ‘Nicole Eisenman: Maker’s Muck’ at Parkside Lounge

Sun 8 September 2024
5 pm

Parkside Lounge 317 East Houston Street, New York, NY 10002

On the occasion of Hauser & Wirth Publishers’ recent release of ‘Nicole Eisenman: Maker’s Muck’ please join us for a celebratory gathering and reading at Parkside Lounge with artist Nicole Eisenmann and book contributors hannah baer, Sam McKinniss, Sam Roeck, Jasmine Sanders, Lynne Tillman and Janique Vigier.

At the center of Nicole Eisenman’s installation 'Maker’s Muck,' a plaster figure is seated at a potter’s wheel, surrounded by sculptures on a variety of pedestals. Eisenman has invited seventeen authors to follow the trajectories of 'Maker’s Muck' and its many objects in essays, metafictional reflections, and other experiments in writing. Designed in close collaboration with the artist, the book will also be published as a special edition with a silkscreened linen jacket, photograph tipped onto the inside flap, and a line of muck piped onto the spine of each book, numbered in an edition of 500.

Signed copies of ‘Nicole Eisenman: Maker’s Muck’ as well as copies of the special edition will be available for purchase at the event.

This event is free; however, reservations are required. 
Click here to register. 

‘Nicole Eisenman: Maker’s Muck’ (special edition, top), 2024 © Hauser & Wirth Publishers

About hannah baer
hannah baer is a writer and therapist based in New York.

About Nicole Eisenman
Nicole Eisenman lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. 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, 2019 Whitney Biennial, and 2017 Skulptur Projekte Münster in Münster, Germany. Having established herself as a painter, Nicole Eisenman has expanded her practice into the third dimension.

About Sam McKinniss
Sam McKinniss is an artist living and working in New York and Kent, Connecticut. Subjects for his figurative paintings are often sourced from popular culture, the entertainment industry, sports, and the internet. McKinniss’s work has been widely discussed and exhibited, including solo presentations at David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles; Almine Rech Gallery, Paris; and the recently defunct yet highly influential former gallery JTT, New York. His writing has appeared in Artforum and elsewhere.

About Sam Roeck
(773) 456-4101

About Jasmine Sanders
Jasmine Sanders is a writer from the South Side of Chicago. This bio was written in the midst of a genocide which has, at present, killed 32,000 Palestinians. By the time you have reached the end of this sentence, the number will have increased. Free Palestine, now, then, and always.

About Lynne Tillman
Lynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer and cultural critic. Her most recent novel is 'Men and Apparitions' (2018); her most recent book, 'Mothercare' (2022), an autobiographical essay on being a caregiver to her mother for 11 years. In 2025, a book of her selected stories 'Thrilled to Death' will be published by Soft Skull Press.

About Janique Vigier
Janique Vigier is a writer and editor at Semiotext(e). She has written for publications including Artforum, Bookforum, the London Review of Books, and the New York Review of Books. She lives in New York.