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Eric Fischl Art

American, b. 1948

Eric Fischl’s extraordinary achievements throughout his career have made him one of the most influential figurative painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. 

Fischl was born in 1948 in New York City and grew up in the suburbs of Long Island. He attended Phoenix College and earned his BFA from the California Institute for the Arts in 1972. Fischl’s suburban upbringing provided him with a backdrop of alcoholism and a country club culture obsessed with image over content. His early work thus became focused on the rift between what was experienced and what could not be said. His first New York City solo show was at Edward Thorp Gallery in 1979, during a time when suburbia was not considered a legitimate genre for art. He first received critical attention for depicting the dark, disturbing undercurrents of mainstream American life.

In his pinned Mylar and cast resin works, Fischl creates images that are both striking in their saturated tones and infused with the subtle tension of figures twisting, reaching, and pushing out beyond the boundaries of the picture plane. The artist has reimagined his technique used to create glassine collages during the late '70s and early '80s. 

Drawing on those early years, Fischl pulls his collage process forward using contemporary imagery and art-making technology not available to him in prior years. The result is work that is fresh, arresting, and deeply tied to the historic roots of the artist. While both the cast resin and pinned Mylar concepts emanate from the same desire to revisit his early collage process, each accomplishes very different results. The resin pieces were created around the time Fischl began exploring cast glass sculpture. The resin pieces became a way to create collaged images in modern materials that capture light in a similar way to the glass sculptures, whereby light comes into the piece and projects back out of the work. In the pinned Mylars, Fischl wanted to break free from the confines of the cast resin and the picture plane. This became a creative driver for much of this body of work.

Eric Fischl’s paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints have been the subject of numerous solo and major group exhibitions and his work is represented in many museums, as well as prestigious private and corporate collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, St. Louis Art Museum, Louisiana Museum of Art in Denmark, Musée Beaubourg in Paris, the Paine Webber Collection, and many others.

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Eric Fischl Hand Signed Lithograph Figures on the Beach Pictures Generation Art
By Eric Fischl
Located in Surfside, FL
Eric Fischl (AMERICAN, Born 1948) Lithograph depicting figures on a beach., 1991 Hand signed in pencil to lower left and edition numbered 41/125. Mounted in a black painted wooden frame behind glass screen. Dimensions: Frame: 18.75 X 22.75, Image: 16 X 20 From Art Pro-Choice II, 1991 Relief pressure print from stratified collage on wove Okawara paper Printed by Spring Street Workshop,New York and published by Pace Editions,Inc., New York. This was a portfolio of 8 works by artists Jennifer Bartlett, Ross Bleckner, Francesco Clemente, Eric Fischl, April Gornik, Claes Oldenburg, Cindy Sherman and Pat Steir. Eric Fischl (born March 9, 1948) is an American painter, sculptor, printmaker, draughtsman and educator. He is known for his paintings depicting American suburbia from the 1970s and 1980s. Fischl was born in New York City and grew up on suburban Long Island; his family moved to Phoenix, Arizona, in 1967. His art education began at Phoenix College for two years, followed with studying at Arizona State University. Followed by studying at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, where he received a B.F.A. in 1972. He then moved to Chicago, taking a job as a guard at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Between 1974 and 1978 he taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was at this school where he met his future wife, painter April Gornik. In 1978, he moved back to New York City. Fischl is a trustee and senior critic at the New York Academy of Art and President of the Academy of the Arts at Guild Hall of East Hampton. In addition to receiving Guild Hall's Academy of the Art's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994, Fischl was extended the honor of membership to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006. Fischl has embraced the description of himself as a painter of the suburbs, not generally considered appropriate subject matter prior to his generation. In 2002, Fischl collaborated with the Museum Haus Esters in Krefeld, Germany. Haus Esters is a 1928 home, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928 to be a private home. It now houses changing exhibitions. Fischl refurbished it as a home (though not particularly in Bauhaus style) and hired models who, for several days, pretended to be a couple who lived there. He took 2,000 photographs, which he reworked digitally and used as the basis for a series of paintings, one of which, the monumental Krefeld Redux, Bedroom #6 (Surviving the Fall Meant Using You for Handholds) (2004) was purchased by Paul Allen featured in the 2006 Double Take Exhibit at Experience Music Project, where it was juxtaposed with a much smaller Degas pastel. This is by no means the first time Fischl has been compared to Degas. Twenty years earlier, reviewing a show of 28 Fischl paintings at New York's Whitney Museum, art critic John Russell wrote in The New York Times, "[Degas] sets up a charged situation with his incomparable subtlety of insight and characterization, and then he goes away and leaves us to figure it out as best we can. That is the tactic of Fischl, too, though the society with which he deals has an unstructured brutality and a violence never far from release that are very different from the nicely calibrated cruelties that Degas recorded." Fischl also collaborated with Jamaica Kincaid, E. L. Doctorow and Frederic Tuten combining paintings and sketches with literary works.Composer Bruce Wolosoff was inspired by Fischl's watercolors to compose "The Loom" for the classical ensemble Eroica Trio. Fischl's work can be found in the permanent collections of museums such as the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Institute of Chicago; Broad Museum, Los Angeles; Dallas Museum of Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art, among many others. In May 2022, a new auction record was set for Eric Fischl when his 1982 painting The...
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1990s American Realist Eric Fischl Art

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Lithograph

"Vincent: A Delirium, " Collection of 6 prints with prose by Frederic Tuten
By Eric Fischl
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eric Fischl, American (b. 1948) Title: Vincent: A Delirium Year: 1993 Medium: Collection of 6 Aquatints with prose by Frederic Tuten, lithograph inset into cover, signed and ...
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1990s Contemporary Eric Fischl Art

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Eric Fischl, , Two Girls Dancing
By Eric Fischl
Located in New York, NY
TWO GIRLS DANCING Year: 2011 Medium: 2-color lithograph Size: 27 x 30 inches (69 x 76 cm) Edition: 100 Price: $1,900 Born in New York City in 1948, Eric Fischl grew up in the suburbs of Long Island , his parents having moved there shortly before his second year.”Safer place to raise a family”, they used to say. Against a backdrop of alcoholism and a country club culture obsessed with image over content, Fischl became focused on the rift between what was experienced and what could not be said. Until the late 70’s, suburbia was not considered a legitimate genre for art. With his first New York show at the Edward Thorp Gallery, epithets like “psycho-sexual suburban dramas” became velcroed to his disturbing images of dyfunctional family life. Fischl began his art education in Phoenix, Arizona where his parents had moved in 1967. First at Phoenix Junior College, then a year at Arizona State University, and finally getting his BFA in 1972 at the recently opened California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. After graduation he moved to Chicago where he worked as a guard at the Museum of Contemporary Art. It was in Chicago that Fischl was exposed to the non-mainstream art of the Hairy Who. “The underbelly, carnie world of Ed Paschke and the hilarious sexual vulgarity of Jim Nutt...
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2010s Contemporary Eric Fischl Art

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Lithograph

Arching Woman
By Eric Fischl
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Since the 1980s, Eric Fischl (b. 1948) has been renowned internationally as one of the most daring and distinct figurative artists. Over the course of his career, Fischl has branched...
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2010s Contemporary Eric Fischl Art

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Eric Fischl- Beach Scene with Poodle-Hand-Signed Limited Edition
By Eric Fischl
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“Beach Scene with Poodle” by Eric Fischl is a captivating limited edition print that captures the essence of a leisurely day at the beach through the artist's distinctive narrative s...
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Beach scene, Inner Tube: Eric Fischl Aquatint Etching of sunlit nude woman
By Eric Fischl
Located in New York, NY
A glowing lemon-yellow wash of color floods this erotic beach landscape with light. Hidden in the dappled shadow of a tree, a nude woman glances downward as she applies sunscreen. A ...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Eric Fischl Art

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Annie, Gwen, Lilly, Pam and Tulip by Jamaica Kincaid
By Eric Fischl
Located in New York, NY
FISCHL, Eric. Annie, Gwen, Lilly, Pam and Tulip. By Jamaica Kincaid. 14 pp. Illustrated with 9 original lithographs by Fischl. Folio, bound in publisher's black cloth with embos...
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1980s Eric Fischl Art

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Beach Series 3, Contemporary Aquatint Etching by Eric Fischl
By Eric Fischl
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eric Fischl, American (1948 - ) Title: Beach Series 3 Year: 1989 Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 38/100 Image: 33 x 41.5 inches S...
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1980s Contemporary Eric Fischl Art

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Etching, Aquatint

I from Beach Scenes Series, Large Signed Surrealist Aquatint by Eric Fischl
By Eric Fischl
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eric Fischl, American (1948 - ) Title: Beach Series 4 Year: 1989 Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 38/100 Image: 33 x 41.5 inches S...
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1980s Contemporary Eric Fischl Art

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Beach
By Eric Fischl
Located in Toronto, ON
14" x 18" Framed Limited Edition Etching and aquatint on Hahnemühle Paper Hand Signed by Eric Fischl Please Contact Gallery for more artworks by Eric Fischl
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1980s Eric Fischl Art

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Trout
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Since the 1980's Eric Fischl (b. 1948) he has been admired internationally as one of the most daring figurative painters. Over the course of his career he has worked in a host of med...
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Two Girls Dancing
By Eric Fischl
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2-color lithograph. Edition No. AP 11/19.
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2010s Eric Fischl Art

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Men in Water
By Eric Fischl
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Edition of 9 Eric Fischl’s extraordinary achievements throughout his career have made him one of the most influential figurative painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. ...
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2010s Contemporary Eric Fischl Art

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Study for The Weight
By Eric Fischl
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition of 5 Eric Fischl’s extraordinary achievements throughout his career have made him one of the most influential figurative painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. ...
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2010s Contemporary Eric Fischl Art

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Man, Woman, Boy
By Eric Fischl
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition of 9 Eric Fischl’s extraordinary achievements throughout his career have made him one of the most influential figurative painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. ...
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2010s Contemporary Eric Fischl Art

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