Eric Zener

                      

                                                                       

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          Eric Zener

Eric Zener, I totally fall in love with his paintings, after I saw his paintings at the chelsea gallery. I went to Chelsea gallery for a field trip with my classmates, and I went to a bunch of different galleries as well, I saw great paintings from great artists. I was trying to find the gallery that are professor recommended we see,while walking around in chelsea; but I suddenly couldn't move after I saw his painting through the window. His exhibition wasn't on the list from the paper, but I really wanted to go see his painting because I felt like something was grabbing my feet and forced me to go inside of his exhibition.

Eric Zener is an American photorealist artist best known for figure paintings of people under water in swimming pools. I felt so ambitious when I saw his painting because he painted so realistic, but if you move closer to his painting, you would see very abstract shapes around the figure, in the figure and the swimming pool. I was very pleased to see the realistic figure and abstract shapes from the water, and shadow. Zener is a self-taught artist. I really like how Zener knows how to put realism with aspects of abstractionism together. His paintings, mostly in oil and inspired me to want to use oil. Zener's painting, shows subjects standing on hilltops, submerged in water and standing at the ocean's shore. They were very introspective and show the relationships between the natural and human. When I saw his painting, I was very delighted to see all of his painting because I felt like It was an escape from New York City and got to go on a trip to an ocean beach.

In the summer of 2003, Zener lived in Spain on Spain's Costa Brava, and he was intrigued by the masses of people bathing in the Mediterranean. He saw water as a pleasure place like a oasis; regardless of social standing, everyone enjoys the sunlight, especially at the beach. He creates the title for most of his work. I felt his title have relationship between nature and people, such as “relinquishing”, “engulfed”, and “balance”.

His exhibition is located at Gallery Henoch, New York- solo, April 15 though May 8, 2010.

I strongly recommend if you want to go on vacation in NYC, but you don't have much money or time, you could just go his exhibition and enjoy his painting. I would describe his painting as an small oasis in the dirty air of New York City.