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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Repose - Contemporary Oil Painting, Framed Seascape, Tranquil Blue, 60x70
By Eric Zener
Located in New York, NY
Original oil painting by Eric Zener In Zener’s view, through consciously observing the natural movement of water we may arrive at wisdom. “The ocean, in all its moods, becomes a vis...
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
Deeper Bliss Oil Painting, Contemporary Figurative
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
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
A Blending Into - Realism Figurative Painting, Oil on Canvas, 36x60
By Eric Zener
Located in New York, NY
Signed on Verso. 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 quest to observe a...
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
$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
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
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
RED GROVE - Realism / Mixed Media / Landscape
By Eric Zener
Located in New York, NY
Original Resin Piece by Eric Zener.
Resin, Mixed Media
$886
H 15.75 in W 18.9 in D 0.79 in
Untitled - Blue Landscape With Trees, XX Century Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Hallein, AT
Alina Dobrowolska - artist from Gdańsk; graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk at the Faculty of Painting. She took part in collective and individual exhibitions in Poland...
Canvas, Oil
$3,840
H 25.6 in W 21.26 in D 0.79 in
“Cypress Alley” French Riviera in the Light of the South, Mixed Media Painting
By Andrée de Frémont
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
To evoke the French Riviera and the light of the South, a sketch made by Andrée de Frémont on the French Riviera has become canvas. It is camping a h...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
$2,008
H 14.97 in W 10.63 in D 0.79 in
Untitled - Portrait Of A Man, Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Colourful
By Grzegorz Radecki
Located in Hallein, AT
Grzegorz Radecki is a Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland. Painter and graphic artist, born in 1961 in Ostróda. Since 1981 he has been living and working in the...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
$5,080
H 33.47 in W 25.6 in D 1.19 in
Curtain - Contemporary Expressive Atmospheric Indoor Oil Painting
By Bartosz Kolata
Located in Hallein, AT
Bartosz Kolata was born in Torun, Poland in 1979. In 2006 he graduated in Art Conservation and Restoration from Nicolas Copernicus University UMK, securing a Master of Art degree. He...
Canvas, Oil
$1,572
H 7.88 in W 7.09 in D 0.79 in
Erotic - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Beach View, Realism, Minimalistic
By Julita Malinowska
Located in Hallein, AT
Artodyssey "Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with co...
Canvas, Oil
$3,603
H 19.69 in W 13.78 in D 0.79 in
Lovers IV - Contemporary, Modern Oil Painting, Realism, Colourful, Sea View
By Julita Malinowska
Located in Hallein, AT
Artodyssey "Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with co...
Canvas, Oil
$2,363
H 31.89 in W 25.6 in D 0.79 in
"Spring" ("Printemps"), White Trees and Black Cypress Red Lanscape Oil Painting
By Marcel Demagny
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This semi-abstract artwork depicts a Provence landscape with white trees and black cypresses, and a hot red atmosphere. This piece is not framed. Marcel Demagny...
Canvas, Oil
$2,126
H 27.56 in W 33.47 in D 0.79 in
Clearance - Expressive Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Realism, Warm Tones
By Robert Bubel
Located in Hallein, AT
The painting is signed on the back. The whole artistic output of Robert Bubel centres around subjective emotions and arousing emotion in the beholder. The source of inspiration- tha...
Canvas, Oil
$2,126
H 16.15 in W 10.63 in D 0.79 in
Portrait Of A Young Woman 1 - Figurative Oil Painting, New Renaissance
By Michalina Czarniecka - Meeshell
Located in Hallein, AT
Portrait Of A Young Woman 1 - Figurative Oil Painting, New Renaissance Contemporary painting oil on canvas
Cotton Canvas, Oil
$2,126
H 23.63 in W 36.23 in D 0.79 in
Vanishing Houses 3 - Contemporary Expressive Symbolic and Minimalistic Painting
By Joanna Mrozowska
Located in Hallein, AT
Joanna Mrozowska Born in 1976 in Warsaw. Studied in the Department of Painting in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw; she graduated with a Master’s degree in painting, with the cycle...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
$2,126
H 21.66 in W 17.72 in D 1.19 in
Leaves - Modern Expressive Garden, Nature, Flowers, Landscape Oil Painting
By Bartosz Kolata
Located in Hallein, AT
Bartosz Kolata was born in Torun, Poland in 1979. In 2006 he graduated in Art Conservation and Restoration from Nicolas Copernicus University UMK, securing a Master of Art degree. He...
Canvas, Oil
$12,997
H 47.25 in W 47.25 in
"Starry Night on the Entrechaux Garden", Modern Landscape Mixed Media Painting
By Andrée de Frémont
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This artwork depicts a night lanscape of the South of France. The sky is studded with golden leaves stars. The red-roofed provencal house provides a fit setting for its flowered garden, illuminated by the moonlight, figured as a large yellow beam textured with silk paper. A proliferation of shrubs and climbing flowers are tangling and occupy the space of a large squared canvas, tempered by the immutable verticality of cypresses and by a large beige field in the bottom right. This piece is not framed. Andrée de Frémont...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
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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
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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
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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