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He made his reputation in the 1980's with large-scale figurative oil paintings depicting ambiguous, erotically charged scenarios set in the American suburbs. Layers of consciousness on top of layers of cross-purposes.“Įric Fischl, Art Fair: Exit (Courtesy of Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery) Eric Fischl's Paintingįischl first received critical attention for depicting the dark, disturbing undercurrents of mainstream American life. For a painter, it is a rich environment to try to capture. For Fischl “they are nearly cubistic in their flatness and their jarring collaged constructions. The artist wants to show us his experience of the art fair spaces as something that has essentially abstract nature. The Art Fair paintings demonstratethe artist’s acute observation of body language and the small details that reflect social relationships, particularly in the heady environment of the art fair, known for its charged atmosphere of financial and cultural capital. The shorthest way to describe Eric Fischl’s Art Fair paintings is: looking at people looking at paintings and at people. Today, Fischl is a senior critic at the New York Academy of Art and a fellow at both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Įric Fischl, Art Fair: Booth #10 Booty (Courtesy of Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery) Eric Fischl’s Art Fair In the 70’s, before he became a full-time artist, he used to work as a guard at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. 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. A productive painter, photographer, and sculptor since 1979, his artwork is represented in many distinguished museums throughout the world, including the Met and the MoMA, and has been featured in over one thousand publications, and has been featured in over one thousand publications. “Eric calls them our saints - I like to think of them as our rogues gallery.Eric Fischl is an internationally acclaimed American artist.

“This is a way of celebrating an ongoing tradition and the heritage of Sag Harbor,” Cochran said. Subjects include Betty Friedan, Langston Hughes and Herman Melville.

The two pieces, “Untitled” (2008) by Marshall and “Teen Venus” (2012) by Erizku, have been arranged by Fischl and Sara Cochran, the Church’s executive director and chief curator, as an installation meant to stimulate “dialogue about nature, beauty, history and race.”Ī collection of portraits by Fischl, of 20 cultural luminaries who had strong connections to Sag Harbor, which is on Long Island’s East End, will also be on view - on the building’s windows. The center’s first guests will have the opportunity to view art by Kerry James Marshall and Awol Erizku as they become acquainted with the 10,048-square-foot space. “We want the Church to stand as a beacon of hope and renewal through continual exploration and reinterpretation, which is the domain of the arts.” “This opening is the culmination of the vision of a lifetime,” Fischl, a longtime resident of the area, said in a statement.

Two tours of the center, a former Methodist church built in 1832, will be offered daily, Thursday through Monday. The Church, a nonprofit arts center in Sag Harbor, N.Y., founded by the artists Eric Fischl and April Gornik, will begin to welcome visitors on April 15.