# eric fischl 7-9 minutes ![[ericfischl.jpg|300]] fischl 2008 born: march 9 1948 (age 77)new york city us alma mater: california institute of the arts known for: painting sculpture printmaking movement: realism neo-expressionism spouse: april gornik 'eric fischl' (born march 9 1948) is an american painter sculptor printmaker draughtsman and educator. ey is known for ir paintings depicting american suburbia from the 1970s and 1980s fischl was born in new york city and grew up on suburban long island; ir family moved to phoenix arizona in 1967. ir art education began at phoenix college for two years followed with studying at arizona state university. followed by studying at the california institute of the arts in valencia california where ey received a b.f.a. in 1972. ey then moved to chicago taking a job as a guard at the museum of contemporary art between 1974 and 1978 ey taught at the nova scotia college of art and design in halifax nova scotia. it was at this school where ey met ir future wife painter april gornik. in 1978 ey moved back to new york city ![[badboybyericfischl.jpg|300]] bad boy (1981) oil on linen 66 by 96 inches (1.7 m × 2.4 m) by eric fischl fischl has embraced the description of himself as a painter of the suburbs not generally considered appropriate subject matter prior to ir generation. some of fischl's earlier works have a theme of adolescent sexuality and voyeurism in 2002 fischl collaborated with the museum haus esters in krefeld germany. haus esters is a 1928 home designed by mies van der rohe in 1928 to be a private home. it now houses changing exhibitions. fischl refurbished it as a home (though not particularly in bauhaus style) and hired models who for several days pretended to be a couple who lived there. ey took 2,000 photographs which ey reworked digitally and used as the basis for a series of paintings one of which the monumental krefeld redux bedroom #6 (surviving the fall meant using you for handholds) (2004) was purchased by paul allen featured in the 2006 double take exhibit at experience music project where it was juxtaposed with a much smaller degas pastel. this is by no means the first time fischl has been compared to degas twenty years earlier reviewing a show of 28 fischl paintings at new york's whitney museum art critic john russell wrote in the new york times "sets up a charged situation with ir incomparable subtlety of insight and characterization and then ey goes away and leaves us to figure it out as best we can. that is the tactic of fischl too though the society with which ey deals has an unstructured brutality and a violets never far from release that are very different from the nicely calibrated cruelties that degas recorded" fischl also collaborated with jamaica kincaid e. l. doctorow and frederic tuten combining paintings and sketches with literary works. composer bruce wolosoff was inspired by fischl's watercolors to compose "the loom" for the classical ensemble eroica trio fischl's work can be found in the permanent collections of museums such as the art gallery of new south wales sydney; art institute of chicago; broad museum los angeles; dallas museum of art; solomon r. guggenheim museum new york; hirshhorn museum and sculpture garden washington d.c.; louisiana museum of modern art humlebaek; musee national d'art moderne centre georges pompidou paris; museum of modern art new york; and the philadelphia museum of modern art among many others **+** danto a. c. enright r. and martin s. (2008). eric fischl 1970-2007. new york: monacelli press. // republic of bob