ERIC FISCHL (b. 1948, NYC),

'Untitled (Bathers at Beach)', 1992

Limited Edition Print / Bookplate (Ex-Librīs)

Offset lithograph bookplate (ex librīs) printed on acid-free paper. Dimensions: 3" x 5" (7.5 x 13 cm). Printed by Derrière L’Étoile Studios, New York. Edition size: 25,000. Excellent / Mint condition.

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 focussed 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, AZ 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, CA. 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 were revelatory experiences for me", Fischl has said. In 1974, he got a job teaching painting at the highly touted Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. It is there that he met his future wife, the painter, April Gornik. In 1978 they moved to New York City where they continue to live and work.

During the course of his artistic productivity, Eric Fischl has paid intense attention to the human body, interwoven in its diverse relational patterns. Sexuality and transitoriness, melancholy and loneliness are only some of the parameters of the wide spectrum of feelings which he has spread out in what are mostly large-format paintings.

SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2022
'Eric Fischl: Towards the End of an Astonishing Beauty: An Elegy to Sag Harbor, and Thus America', Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY

2019
'Eric Fischl: Complications From an Already Unfulfilled Life', Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, CA

2012
'Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting', San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA), San Jose, CA
'Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting', Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
'Eric Fischl: Portraits', Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

2011
'Eric Fischl: Tumbling Woman', Jablonka Galerie, Hürth, Germany
'Eric Fischl: Early Paintings', Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY

2010 
'Intimacy! Baden in der Kunst (Bathing in Art)' (group exhibition), Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Alhen, Germany
'Eric Fischl: Corrida Paintings', Centro de Arte Contemporáneo (CAC) de Málaga, Málaga, Spain

2009
'Eric Fischl', Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
'Paint Made Flesh' (group exhibition), Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
'Paint Made Flesh' (group exhibition), Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
'Eric Fischl: Corrida Paintings', Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany
'Eric Fischl: 10 Breaths', Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
'Eric Fischl: Beach Scenes: New Work', Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO

2008
'Eric Fischl', Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

2007
'Eric Fischl: Ten Breaths', Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany
'Not for Sale' (group exhibition), P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY

2006
'Eric Fischl: Masterworks from the Early Eighties', Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zürich, Switzerland
'Eric Fischl: Prints and Drawings', Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts (DCCA), Wilmington, DE
'Eric Fischl: Sculpture and Watercolor', Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY

2005
'Eric Fischl', Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
'Eric Fischl, New Painting', Jablonka Gallery, Köln, Germany

 

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