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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(Biography provided by Octavia Art Gallery)
"Krefeld Project Dining Room", Contemporary Iris Print, Signed, 2003
By Eric Fischl
Located in Astoria, NY
Eric Fischl (American, b. 1948), "Krefeld Project, Dining Room, Scene #1", Iris Print in Colors, 2003, signed, numbered, and dated to lower edge "5/5 Eric Fischl 03", Mary Boone Gall...
Digital
$1,100
H 40 in W 50 in D 0.1 in
'Harvest Dance' Movement dance figures gold yellow orange fire nature wild
By Sophia Milligan
Located in Penzance, GB
'Harvest Dance' Limited edition archival photograph. Unframed, hand signed and numbered _________________ Late August, captured in the glow of the evening sun, my daughters join han...
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
$4,125
H 23.62 in W 40 in D 0.02 in
Formula 1 Ferrari - Fernando Alonso, Signed limited edition still life, Race
By Laurent Campus
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Formula 1 Ferrari - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 2011 - Edition of 5 Formula 1 , Preseason test, 2011 , Barcelona, Spain. Fernando Alonso for Ferrari Photo/R...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pig...
$4,000
H 20 in W 24 in D 0.01 in
Boy runs through the streets, Morocco - National Geographic, Buildings, Wall
By Steve McCurry
Located in Denton, TX
20 x 24 in. Edition of 30 Printed on FujiFlex Crystal Archive Supergloss Paper. Signed on print verso by Steve McCurry, and inscribed with image, serial and edition number. A signed...
Digital
$1,709
H 17.58 in W 25.58 in
Velours Rose by Gina Soden - Urban Exploration, Interior Photography, France
By Gina Soden
Located in Paris, FR
Velours Rose is a photograph by Gina Soden of a small abandoned theatre in France. Opened in 1902 and modelled on the great theatres of Paris, this intimate 400‑seat venue in a smal...
Photographic Paper, Giclée
$1,768
H 17.56 in W 25.56 in
Agitazione by Gina Soden - Urbex photography, abandoned place, interior, stairs
By Gina Soden
Located in Paris, FR
Agitazione is a limited-edition photograph by British contemporary artist Gina Soden. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 2 dimensions: *44,64 × 64...
Giclée
$5,540
H 26.38 in W 36.62 in
Untitled (#08-22) by Pawel Żak - Contemporary studio photography, flowers
By Pawel Żak
Located in Paris, FR
Untitled (#08-22) is a limited edition photograph by Polish contemporary artist Pawel Żak. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in the size 67 x 93 cm (...
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
$4,000
H 20 in W 24 in D 0.01 in
Trees in Tuscany, Italy - National Geographic, Travel, Landscape
By Steve McCurry
Located in Denton, TX
20 x 24 in. Edition of 30 Printed on FujiFlex Crystal Archive Supergloss Paper. Signed on print verso by Steve McCurry, and inscribed with image, serial and edition number. A signed...
Digital
$4,400
H 48 in W 65 in
Blue Bird, Signed Archival Fine Art Print, 48x65 Inches, Edition of 7
By Erik Pawassar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Blue Bird by Erik Pawassar 48 x 65 inches (122 x 165cm) edition of 7 signed 30 x 40 inches (76 x 102cm) edition of 25 signed archival fine art pigment print signed & numbered...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
$1,800
H 40 in W 31 in
Persephone VII - timeless still life of muted environmental interior vignette
By Erik Pawassar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persephone lll (2006) by Erik Pawassar, large scale original photograph from the body of works 'Persephone', a series of environmental still-life photographs of timeless palimpsest i...
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
$34,678
H 48 in W 48 in
Raquel Welch on the Cross - Terry O'Neill, lifetime signed, 48x48 in, colour
By Terry O'Neill
Located in London, GB
Terry O'Neill (1938-2019) Raquel Welch on the Cross, Los Angeles 1970 lifetime edition Lambda C-Type print 48 x 48 in. (paper size) edition of 50 signed and numbered printed later Price: £25,200 GBP (inc. 20% UK VAT) Notes: A publicity shot for One Million Years B.C. From the start of the 1960s and continuing until the present day the name of Terry O'Neill has become inextricably connected with some of the most interesting takes on photographic portraits of celebrities. From the Beatles and Rolling Stones in the 1960s to the Royal Family and the Prime Minister's family in more recent times Terry O'Neill has proved adept at recording the significant subjects of the day in a visually stimulating and sometimes unexpected way and thus illuminated history of our age. Terry O'Neill was born on 30 July 1938 in the East End of London. His career as a photographer evolved by chance out of his first ambition to become a jazz drummer. Leaving school at fourteen and then doing his National Service his ambition was to go to America to study with the great drummers there. He thought that the best way to travel frequently and inexpensively to the USA would be to get a job as an air steward for BOAC. The airline at that time had no vacancies for stewards but suggested he took a vacancy in their technical photographic unit, which he combined with time at an art school and he then became interested in photojournalism. At first, O'Neill worked as freelance at London Airport, later was offered a stunt as a reportage photographer at Heathrow. This was followed by three years in Fleet Street, with O'Neill at 21, the youngest photographer in Fleet Street taking pop pictures for the up-tempo Daily Sketch. One thing lead to another and O'Neill quickly became a significant image-maker and one of the group of talented young photographers who helped create the photographic icons of the 1960s and create part of the buzz that became Swinging London. The peer group that emerged in this decade included David Bailey, Terence Donovan and Brian Duffy from the East End and Patrick Lichfield and Lewis Morley...
Lambda, Photographic Paper
$3,700
H 48 in W 71 in
Beach Comber Archival Print, Signed, 48x71 inches, Edition of 7
By Erik Pawassar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Beach Comber by Erik Pawassar 48 x 71 inches (122 x 180cm) edition of 7 signed 27 x 40 inches (69 x 102cm) edition of 25 signed archival fine art pigment print signed & numbe...
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper, Giclée
$1,245
H 23 in W 15 in D 0.1 in
Bondi Heights 2 - Australian Landscape Seaside Bondi Beach Photography
By Ben Thomas
Located in Brighton, GB
Bondi Heights 2 is a vibrant C-Type Print in an Edition of 10 in this size by contemporary photographer Ben Thomas. This print is from the older series th...
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital