Eric Zener is a self-taught Photorealist artist recognized for his figure paintings of lone subjects often submerged in swimming pools.
Zener employs water as a metaphorical tool to express renewal and personal transformation. It speaks to the collective desire in all of us to retreat from the noise of the world, challenging the shallow, surface-level questions and concerns that frame our daily lives. Additionally, Zener works across a broad spectrum of materials, including paint, silver leaf, and resin, to create texture, depth, and dimensionality in his work.
Zener’s work has been exhibited in the United States, and internationally, for over 25 years. His solo exhibition history has largely been with his long-standing dealers in San Francisco and New York. Additionally, Zener has had numerous shows in Asia, Australia and Europe. Eric’s work has been featured and reviewed extensively in art magazines and other publications. Apart from gallery representation his work has also been included in museum shows and international residency programs.
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ETHEREAL- Blue Water / Female Swimmer / Floating Free / Photorealism
By Eric Zener
Located in New York, NY
Original oil painting by Eric Zener. Eric Zener’s photorealistic paintings and resins are focused on four motifs: landscapes, figures in bed or on tightropes, and bodies in water. ...
Canvas, Oil
$72,000Sale Price|20% Off
SELF - Contemporary Realism / Swimmer / Waterscape / Male Figure
By Eric Zener
Located in New York, NY
Original oil painting by Eric Zener. Eric Zener’s photorealistic paintings and resins are focused on four motifs: landscapes, figures in bed or on tightropes, and bodies in water. ...
Canvas, Oil
HOW TO BE HAPPY - Underwater Photorealism / Female Swimmer / Large Portrait
By Eric Zener
Located in New York, NY
Original oil painting by Eric Zener. Eric Zener (b. 1966, Astoria, OR) completed his BA in 1988 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. As an artist he has been engaged in ...
Canvas, Oil
$41,600Sale Price|20% Off
NIGHT PLUNGE II - Contemporary Realism / Water / Ocean / Deep Blue
By Eric Zener
Located in New York, NY
Original oil painting by Eric Zener. Eric Zener (b. 1966, Astoria, OR) completed his BA in 1988 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. As an artist he has been engaged in ...
Canvas, Oil
SUMMER RIPPLE - Contemporary / Figurative / Swimmer
By Eric Zener
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting by Eric Zener. Eric Zener (b. 1966, Astoria, OR) completed his BA in 1988 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. As an artist he has been engaged in a qu...
Canvas, Oil
PATHWAYS - Abstract Landscape / Branches and Tree / Blue and Brown
By Eric Zener
Located in New York, NY
Original Oil Painting by Eric Zener Eric Zener (b. 1966, Astoria, OR) completed his BA in 1988 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. As an artist he has been engaged in a...
Canvas, Oil
$58,000
ABOVE IT ALL - Contemporary Realism / Male Figure Swimmer / Ladder Journey Sky
By Eric Zener
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting by Eric Zener Eric Zener (b. 1966, Astoria, OR) completed his BA in 1988 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. As an artist he has been engaged in a que...
Canvas, Oil
SUMMER WORMHOLE - Contemporary Mixed Media / Photorealism / Landscape
By Eric Zener
Located in New York, NY
Original Mixed Media Piece by Eric Zener
Resin, Mixed Media
RED GROVE - Realism / Mixed Media / Landscape
By Eric Zener
Located in New York, NY
Original Resin Piece by Eric Zener.
Resin, Mixed Media
$1,342
H 23.63 in W 23.63 in D 2.37 in
Cornish Beach, Original Painting, Coastal art, Beach, Seaside, Summer
Located in Deddington, GB
Cornish Beach was painted in North Cornwall and is based on coastal locations such as Daymer Bay, Polzeath and Padstow. It looks beautiful in a home with bright uplifting colours and...
Canvas, Oil
$2,349
H 59.06 in W 44.89 in
Abstraction - Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting, Colorful, Dynamic
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary colorful oil on canvas abstract painting by Polish artist Monika Rossa. Artwork is a gestural abstraction, there are many dynamic shapes and composition consists of many...
Canvas, Oil
$941
H 10.63 in W 15.75 in D 0.79 in
Seascape - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Nature, Sea View
Located in Salzburg, AT
Malgorzata Karp-Soja was born in Krakow, Poland. She Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where studied painting under Prof. Stanislaw Wisniewski and drawing under Prof...
Canvas, Oil
$600
H 18 in W 12 in
Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
Canvas, Oil
$7,600Sale Price|20% Off
H 40 in W 60 in D 1.5 in
Jungle Fantasy with Tropical Bird By Marc Zimmerman
By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Jungle Fantasy with Tropical Bird By Marc Zimmerman Earthy greens and ochers with pink and blue accents make a livable palette for this surreal fantasy jungle of strange flowers and...
Canvas, Oil
$2,114
H 59.06 in W 43.31 in
Abstraction. Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting, Colorful, Dynamic, Polish art
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
Approxiate dimensions of this painting are 140 x 110 cm, unstretched canvas is 157 x 113,5 cm Abstract painting by Polish artist living in USA Monika Rossa. Painting in style of ges...
Canvas, Oil
$25,378
H 90.56 in W 195.28 in
11/02/2023, 18.46h by Calo Carratalá - Large waterscape painting, Senegal, birds
By Calo Carratalá
Located in Paris, FR
02/11/2023, 6:46 pm is a unique oil on canvas diptych painting by Spanish contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, composed of two panels of equal size. Total dimensions: 230 × 496 cm (90...
Canvas, Oil
California Canyon
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
California Canyon -- Cheeseboro Canyon in Southern California is a beautiful canyon surrounded by rolling hills and oak savannah. A historic ranch house was burned down in the massiv...
Canvas, Oil
$26,979
H 39.38 in W 51.19 in D 2.37 in
Swimmers I, Maria Filopoulou, Greek, Water, Natural World, Expansive, Lagoon
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Water & Light are two main components that make the Greek landscape unique and irresistible. Greek painter Maria Filopoulou takes up these two clichés unashamedly and transforms thei...
Oil, Canvas
$3,500
H 48 in W 36 in D 1.5 in
«Ellipses» Figurative Oil Painting by Samantha Van Heest
By Samantha Van Heest
Located in Oslo, NO
Ellipses plays with the nature of awkward interaction and subtle facial expressions. Is it all internal, or can awkwardness feel like a palpable and personified presence? Samantha Van Heest...
Canvas, Oil
$15,491Sale Price|42% Off
H 30 in W 36 in D 1.75 in
Painting of Broadway New York City Street Scene after the Rain by British Artist
By Angela Wakefield
Located in Preston, GB
Original Painting of a Contemporary Broadway New York City Street Scene after the Rain by British Urban Landscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. This is a major work to continue her epic ...
Gesso, Canvas, Linen, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
$11,803Sale Price|50% Off
H 24 in W 36 in D 1.75 in
Black & White Painting of Westminster Bridge in London by British Urban Artist
By Angela Wakefield
Located in Preston, GB
Black & White Painting of Figures at Westminster Bridge in London - a unique original from leading British Urban Landscape & Cityscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. Art measure...
Gesso, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
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H 50 in W 44 in
ENVELOP - Contemporary Figurative Realism / Swimmer / Diver / Water
By Eric Zener
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting by Eric Zener. The painting is signed.
Canvas, Oil
Sold
H 44 in W 88 in
REJOINING, photo-realism, landscape, dense forest, grey sky, green, vivid color
By Eric Zener
Located in New York, NY
Original oil painting by Eric Zener.
Canvas, Oil
Sold
H 30.75 in W 41 in
AWE, women with body underwater, shades of blue, shades of green, bright bikini
By Eric Zener
Located in New York, NY
A swimming woman figure, viewed from under the water. Eric Zener’s photorealistic paintings and resins are focused on four motifs: landscapes, figures in bed or on tightropes, and b...
Resin, Mixed Media
LOOKING AHEAD, man in water, photorealism, underwater, swimmer
By Eric Zener
Located in New York, NY
Eric Zener’s photorealistic paintings and resins are focused on four motifs: landscapes, figures in bed or on tightropes, and bodies in water. Zener manipulates light to create psych...
Resin, Mixed Media
EPHEMERA I, Swimmer, Blue Water, Pool, Bubbles, Female Form
By Eric Zener
Located in New York, NY
Eric Zener’s photorealistic oil paintings are focused on four motifs: landscapes, figures in bed or on tightropes, and bodies in the water. A self-taught artist, Zener manipulates li...
Canvas, Oil
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H 88 in W 66 in
Unbound, Contemporary Realist Painting, Oil, Figurative, Swimmer, Ocean, Blue
By Eric Zener
Located in New York, NY
In this painting, a large female swimmer comes into close-view as she rises from under the blue pool water towards the surface. The painting is similar to a large selfie or an underw...
Canvas, Oil
Where I End and You Begin
By Eric Zener
Located in New York, NY
Eric Zener’s photorealistic paintings and resins are focused on four motifs: landscapes, figures in bed or on tightropes, and bodies in water. Zener manipulates light to create psych...
Canvas, Oil
Splash Study - Blue Water
By Eric Zener
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Eric Zener Splash Study Mixed Media with Resin and Silver Leaf on Panel 14.50 x 20.50 in Blue Color Palette, Water, Bubbles, Pool
Silver Leaf
Reach For Me III, Blue
By Eric Zener
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Eric Zener Reach For Me III Mixed Media with Resin and Gold Leaf on Panel 15.5 inches x 20.5 inches
Gold Leaf
Reach For Me II, Blue
By Eric Zener
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Eric Zener Reach For Me II Mixed Media with Resin and Silver Leaf on Panel 12 inches x 14 inches
Silver Leaf
Reach For Me I, Blue
By Eric Zener
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Eric Zener Reach For Me I Mixed Media with Resin and Silver Leaf on Panel 15.5" x 20.5"
Silver Leaf
Rhapsody in Blue
By Eric Zener
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Eric Zener Rhapsody in Blue Mixed Media with Resin on Panel 41" x 78"
Mixed Media, Panel