The project launched on May 5th, 2011 in Kansas City and travelled to Detroit and Chicago. This multi-disciplinary exhibition of 150 of some of America’s most celebrated visual artists, musicians, poets, playwrights, and filmmakers is designed to spark a national conversation about American identity through the arts. Fischl’s work has been featured in over one thousand publications.Įric Fischl is also the founder, President and lead curator for America: Now and Here. He has also participated in exhibitions in major institutions such as the The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Musée Beaubourg in Paris, France and the The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Recent solo exhibitions of his work have been held in institutions such as Dallas Contemporary in 2018 in Dallas, Texas the Albertina in 2014 in Vienna, Austria the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Malaga in 2010 in Malaga, Spain the Kestnergesellschaft in 2007-2008 in Hannover Germany, the Stadtkirche Darmstadt in 2006 in Darmstadt, Germany and the Delaware Center of Contemporary Art in 2006 in Wilmington, DE. His earlier paintings are highly reminiscent of the Photorealism works of the 1960s, and during the 1980s his style expanded to fragmented images split into separate panels, which he used for paintings and etchings.Įric Fischl has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Fischl’s large human-scale figures only emphasize the voyeuristic feeling of his images, and imbue them with a psychological, almost dream-like intensity. The powerful underlying sexuality in his works, often portray intimate moments that the viewer is helplessly made privy of and address the dark and disturbing undercurrents of mainstream American life.
Subsequently, his early work became focused on provocative yet truthful issues deemed repugnant by polite society.
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His suburban upbringing provided him with a backdrop of alcoholism and a culture obsessed with image over content. Ferguson, at Dalhousie Art Gallery in Nova Scotia in 1975 before relocating to New York City in 1978.įischl works in multiple media such as painting, sculpture and prints, and is mostly known for his large scale, naturalistic images of middle-class American life. Fischl had his first solo show, curated by Bruce W. He graduated from the California Institute of Arts in Valencia, in 1972, and was a teacher between 19 at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. Eric Fischl was born in New York in 1948.
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