Not for him are
the boisterous cafe scenes of Nicole Eisenman, who similarly manages to make figuration both communicative and fresh - feeling — his figures are mostly solitary, thoughtful, burdened.
On a chilly afternoon in December, ARTnews joined the two for lunch at Fanelli's
Cafe, a
boisterous restaurant and bar that was one of the few haunts in SoHo when the New York art
scene took new shape in the»70s.