Eric Fischl

Eric Fischl, contemporary painter and sculptor was born in New York City, New York, 1948, educated in California Institute of the Arts and Valencia, California, B.F.A., 1972. Artist lives in New York City and Sag Harbor, New York.










KEN JOHNSON notes, in his short review about Eric Fischl published in NY Times:
"Like the ones in his last show at this gallery, Eric Fischl's curiously repellent paintings are based on his own photographs of hired models behaving like jaded wealthy sophisticates during a daytime love-making session or at home after a late-night party. The middle-aged people in the paintings, who appear in various states of undress, may be talking or arguing about something, but there is a frustrating vagueness about what is going on, and despite the portentously noirish mood, the psychological intrigue is limited."

"...the people he pictures look like the sort you could imagine actually owning Mr. Fischl's paintings. All of this would be more interesting if the imagery were more pointedly defined as social satire or psychosexual drama, and if it didn't look as if Mr. Fischl were congratulating himself with each stroke of his brush. "