Catalogue to accompany the exhibition Eric Fischl: Stories Told on view at Phoenix Art Museum November 7, 2025 - June 14, 2026.
Contemporary artist Eric Fischl has been unwavering in his commitment to painting the human figure throughout his long career, revealing the body’s central role in determining social and individual experience. As the first major book on the artist in over a decade, this beautifully illustrated publication accompanies a new exhibition in Phoenix, Arizona and includes early, well-known paintings and works on paper focused on the inhabitants of middle-class American suburbs with their social taboos, family secrets, toxic masculinity and unacknowledged privileges.
Also featured are the recent poetically and revealingly titled series of paintings Late America, Presence of an Absence, and Complications of an Already Unfulfilled Life. These works were created in the contexts of the pandemic, political activism and division.
Featuring new and unpublished work, this book will be essential for Fischl’s many loyal fans, and all those interested in modern and contemporary figurative painting.
Hardcover | 160 pages.
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Eric Fischl: Stories Told brings together 40 large-scale works by the celebrated figurative painter. Born in 1948, Fischl grew up in Long Island and Phoenix, studying at Phoenix College and Arizona State University before earning his B.F.A. in 1972 as part of CalArts’ first graduating class. While CalArts championed experimental art, Fischl largely taught himself traditional painting by studying artists like Manet and Degas. In the late 1970s—when figurative painting was out of fashion—he focused on what he knew best: memories of suburban life and family dynamics.
The exhibition spans from the late 1970s to today, highlighting Fischl’s ongoing exploration of the human figure in tense, ambiguous situations that touch on family secrets, masculinity, privilege, and the blurred lines between public and private life. Alongside his international acclaim, Fischl has deeply influenced Phoenix’s art community through mentorship and philanthropy at Phoenix College, making this survey of his work a meaningful homecoming.
Eric Fischl: Stories Told brings together 40 large-scale works by the celebrated figurative painter. Born in 1948, Fischl grew up in Long Island and Phoenix, studying at Phoenix College and Arizona State University before earning his B.F.A. in 1972 as part of CalArts’ first graduating class. While CalArts championed experimental art, Fischl largely taught himself traditional painting by studying artists like Manet and Degas. In the late 1970s—when figurative painting was out of fashion—he focused on what he knew best: memories of suburban life and family dynamics.
The exhibition spans from the late 1970s to today, highlighting Fischl’s ongoing exploration of the human figure in tense, ambiguous situations that touch on family secrets, masculinity, privilege, and the blurred lines between public and private life. Alongside his international acclaim, Fischl has deeply influenced Phoenix’s art community through mentorship and philanthropy at Phoenix College, making this survey of his work a meaningful homecoming.
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