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Introduction

Raid the Icebox Now with Nicole Eisenman

Tonight We Are Going Out And We Are All Getting Hammered
November 1, 2019 - May 1, 2021

Inside Kiki’s Backdoor, works from the RISD Museum’s collection, ranging from medieval to contemporary, are arranged to draw attention to their humanity. These bold creatures stare at us with frank gazes: we cruise them and they cruise us. Party lights rake across the canvases, casting strips of blue, red, and green across the faces that line the walls of the club, bringing them all into the present moment with us. Out back behind the dumpster, sculptures wait in line to be let in.

This installation plucks these works from the chronology of art history and gives them space to step forward and claim their seats in sonder with us, helping us to realize that each one has a life as vivid and complex as our own.

Nicole Eisenman lives and works in New York and received her BFA from RISD in 1987. Her work in painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture adapts traditional art-historical techniques and approaches to an often satirical depiction of contemporary society and its discontents. Eisenman’s practice is also defined by a commitment to representing the complex implications of the body as a site of desire and identity and to addressing issues of gender and sexuality.

The artist wishes to thank Sam Roeck for his collaboration on this project.

Raid the Icebox Now is made possible by a lead grant from the National Endowment for the Arts with additional support from the RISD Museum Associates, Pace Gallery, Taylor Box Company, and a generous in-kind gift from Meyer Sound Laboratories.

RISD Museum is supported by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and with the generous partnership of the Rhode Island School of Design, its Board of Trustees, and Museum Governors.

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Selected Objects

Follower of Antoine Coysevox

Bust of a French Nobleman, ca. 1730

American

Portrait of Daniel Allen Taylor, 1800s

Attributed to Joseph Badger

Portrait of Mrs. Sargent, ca. 1760

English, England

A Lady, 1700s

Jan Jansz. Westerbaen

Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1631-1672

John Singleton Copley

Portrait of Theodore Atkinson, Jr. (1737-1769), 1757-1758

Attributed to Charles Meynier

Love is the Same for All (Amor Omnibus Idem), 1795

After Antoine Louis Barye

Bear Erect, 1833

Alvan Clark

Portrait of John Greenleaf Whittier, ca. 1830-1835

Albert Edward Jackson

Portrait of Lyra Frances Brown Nickerson, 1909

Spanish

Figure of an Apostle, later 1200s-early 1300s

Marie-Victoire Jaquotot

Portrait of the Dead Napoleon, after 1821

Vincenzo Gemito

The Water Carrier, ca. 1880

Rev. Matthew William Peters

Lydia, ca. 1776

Jane Hammond

Kenneth, 1901

German

Statue of a Bishop Saint, ca. 1500-1550

James Earl

Portrait of Mehitabel Knight Dexter, ca. 1794

Henry Benbridge

Portrait of Anne Brindley, 1776

Hiram Powers

Eve Disconsolate, ca. 1850

Gustave Frédéric Michel

Portrait Bust of George Bourn, 1887

Marinus van Reymerswaele

The Money Changers, ca. 1540

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier

African Venus, ca. 1851

American

Portrait of Mrs. Ophelia Baker, ca. 1827-1835

Jean Hippolyte Marchand

Self Portrait, ca. 1909-12

Marco Basaiti

Portrait of a Gentleman, ca.1510

Thomas Young

Portrait of Thomas Coles, late 1700s

Attributed to Washington Allston

Portrait of Captain A.H. Pray of the Boston Fusiliers, ca. 1796

Attributed to Léon Cogniet

Portrait of a Gentleman, ca. 1820

Edmund Dulac

The Birth of Eve, 1925

Matthias Stom

Christ at the Column, ca. 1635

English or European

Native American Sachem, ca. 1700

John Wesley Jarvis

Portrait of the Artist's Sister, Elizabeth Jarvis, early 1800s

Hans Arp

Configuration, 1926

James Earl

Portrait of Elisabeth Fales Paine and Her Aunt, ca. 1794-1796

American

Portrait of Captain Nathaniel Mayheu of Edgartown, MA, 1800s

Jan Thilens

Perseus Freeing Andromeda, ca. 1610

Samuel Lovett Waldo

Portrait of Ann Matilda Kip Haight, ca. 1834

Alexandre Charles Renaud

Prometheus, ca. 1787

Thomas Wilder

Portrait of Anna Baylies Bushee, 1848

James Sullivan Lincoln

Portrait of Cyrus and Frank Taft, ca. 1860

Jean-Jacques Caffieri

Bust of Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, 1786

Erastus Salisbury Field

Portrait of a Woman, ca.1835-1840

English, England

Portrait of a Child, 1700s

Attributed to Eugène Isabey

Portrait Bust of a Young Woman, 1831

Rufus Hathaway

Portrait of Seth Winsor, ca.1798

William Jennys

Portriat of Mrs. Elijah Bates, ca. 1800

Hans Johan Fredrik Berg

Man Reclining in a Turkish Robe, 1848

Attributed to Giovanni Antonio Guardi

Portrait of a Boy with Rose, early 1700s-mid 1700s

John Wollaston

Portrait of Mrs. Ebenezer Pemberton, ca. 1750

William Jennys

Portrait of Mrs. Israel Ashley, ca. 1800

American

Portrait of Miss Coffin of Warren, RI, 1800s

Joseph Badger

Portrait of Ann Savage, 1740 - 1763

Cephas Thompson

Portrait of Mrs. Charles DeWolf (Mary Goodwin), 1806

Jacques-Émile Blanche

Portrait of Virginia Woolf, 1927

William Dunlap

Portrait of Mrs. DeMotte, late 1700s - early 1800s

Chinese export

Portrait of Captain Samuel Snow of Providence, RI, wearing the Order of Cincinnati, ca. 1800

Attributed to Catharina van Hemessen

Portrait of a Man, ca. 1548 - 1554

Georg Vischer

Fertility, ca. 1550

Northern European, Denmark

Portrait of a Young Lady, ca. 1820

Thomas Gainsborough

Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1760

American

Portrait of Zilpha Sayles Remington Paine, ca. 1825-1830

Bartolomeo Passarotti

Portrait of a Cavalier with his Hunting Dogs, ca. 1570-1580

Léon Riesener

La Bacchante, 1836

Gustave Doré

Love Triumphs over Death (Cupid and Skulls), ca. 1876-1880

Attributed to Henri Gascard

Allegorical Portrait of a Lady as Fortune, ca. 1674-1679

Guy Pène Du Bois

Portrait of a Woman, 1932

Cecil Jay

Portrait of George Hitchcock, 1907

Hyacinthe Rigaud

Portrait of Louis of France, The Grand Dauphin (1661-1711), ca. 1697-1721

John Singleton Copley

Portrait of Rebecca Boylston Gill, ca. 1773

French

St. Barbara, 1300s

Balthasar Flessiers

Portrait of Beva Vliegens, Age 40, late 1500s-early 1600s

Octave Tassaert

After the Ball, 1800s

Jonathan Bonner

Inversion #11, 1993

Robert Watts

Ham & Egg Sandwich, 1965

Gaston Lachaise

Standing Woman with Pleated Skirt, 1926

Peter Blake

Babe Rainbow, 1968

Jonathan Bonner

Chocolate Pocket Mice, 2001

Christian Marclay

Cascade, 1989

Allan Hacklin

Nouget, 1968

Ernest Trova

Falling Man Series #53, 1963

Jeff Koons

Bread With Egg, 1995

Adèle Romany

Portrait of Auguste Vestris, 1793

Carl Ostendarp

Yaaah, 2009

Lynda Benglis

Pleiades, 1982

Franz West

Privatlampe des Künstlers II, 1989

Tony Feher

A Few Blue Spots, 2001

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Studies of a Head of a Man, Hands of Saint John for Christ Offering Saint Peter the Keys to Paradise, and Hooded Capuchin monk, ca.1817 - 1820

Edward Mitchell Bannister

Portrait of Christiana Carteaux Bannister, ca. 1860

Martin Wong

Viva Tu vida En Loisada, 1989

Karl Wirsum

Helium Cone Pincher, 1983

Tony Feher

Untitled, 2004

Gardar Eide Einarsson

There Is No Justice, 2006

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Raid the Icebox Now with Nicole Eisenman : Tonight We Are Going Out And We Are All Getting Hammered

November 1, 2019 - May 1, 2021
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