The imagery of Nicole Eisenman’s prints is poignantly evocative channeling a range of recognizable human experiences including love, sex, family and motherhood, alienation, despair, comic relief, drinking, and socializing. From 2011 to 2012, she pursued printmaking, creating works in monotype, lithography, etching, and woodcut. While working at Harlan and Weaver, Eisenman created twelve matrices, from which eleven of them were approved for editioned publications. Works like Watermark, 2012 and Beer Garden, 2012 focus our attention on a foregrounded hand that guides us into the larger picture, shifting the perspective to that of a first-person protagonist. Their precise and repetitive scratching enhance the imagery through increased detail, while literally underscoring the presence of the artist’s own hand as both creator of the work and actor in the scene.