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Eric Fischl, Christie Sitting in Neil's Truck<\/p><\/div>\n

The Eric Fishl show at Mary Boone<\/a> is both repellent and wonderful, though not at the same time, and not in the same measure. You walk in to see a large interior with a man in a business suit bearing up a naked woman, reclined on his lap\u2014as if he\u2019s offering her to the viewer on a platter. It\u2019s a masterful image, wonderfully painted, but it\u2019s also routinely startling, in Fischl\u2019s de rigeur<\/em> way, with creepy and intriguing sexuality. I lingered there on the way out, I\u2019ll admit it. As Ken Johnson put it in The New York Times<\/em>:<\/p>\n

A painting in the foyer of Ms. Boone\u2019s Chelsea location is woefully emblematic. Based, like all his portraits, on a photograph and painted in Mr. Fischl\u2019s signature, lushly sensuous style, it pictures the model, actress and artist Anh Duong lying naked across the lap of the elegantly dressed Simon de Pury, the auctioneer and co-star of Bravo\u2019s reality television series \u201cWork of Art: The Next Great Artist.\u201d<\/a> A blasphemous Piet\u00e0, it flaunts a sophisticated but pointless decadence.<\/p>\n

The painting is visually powerful, but is this sort of thing really shocking anymore? If he\u2019s trying to remind us of Manet, he does, but he doesn\u2019t fare well in the comparison here. This is Fishl\u2019s familiar trope, sophisticated decadence, and it makes you wonder why he puts so much effort into such elitist imagery: until you see all the red dots at the front desk. Much of the show has a similar creepiness, but from a different direction: it\u2019s as if he wants to show how blissfully oblivious the “one percent” still is, partying on the beach, clothed or otherwise–but these are his friends right, so are they supposed to see how superfluous they look in these pictures? Or else he’s showing how beautiful and cool our media celebrities still appear, in their private lives, even when they sit in an unforgiving shaft of sunlight. I mean, is he just trying to make us all feel even more miserable for having to struggle to make enough money to pay our bills?<\/p>\n

Yet, if you hunt in the back room of the gallery, you\u2019ll be rewarded at least once. I didn\u2019t start writing this post to grumble, but to lavishly praise one painting I saw hidden back there: Christy Sitting in Neil\u2019s Truck<\/em>. It happens to be the first image you see at the Mary Boone page promoting the exhibition, so I may not be the only one who thinks its far superior to the rest of the work.<\/p>\n

I loved it primarily for its loose brushwork, nothing overworked, nothing belabored, just a liquid pool of color that seems to eddy and flow into focus, without distorting the image much, showing you an ordinary-looking woman in a truck, gazing into the sunlight toward the camera. She\u2019s probably another of Fischl\u2019s important friends, but this scene doesn\u2019t seem to expect or require you to know it. It captures the feel of the snapshot that served as its source, without slavishly reproducing the image, so the painting is full of life, and because of the way the vehicle creates blocks of color, the image\u2019s abstract qualities strengthen its power. I stood there gazing at this painting wondering why Fischl doesn\u2019t venture outside his economic strata more often and put his amazing skills to use capturing more scenes like this, letting his clear love of color evoke the kind of ordinary, mundane, but beautiful moments all of us experience: light filtering through trees, sunlight on a friendly face, the plaid pattern in a woman\u2019s ordinary wool sweater, and the shimmer of a newly washed red truck. It doesn’t seem to depict someone laden with assets or fame. Been there, seen that, nothing extraordinary going on\u2014and\u00a0 that\u2019s what\u2019s so wonderful about looking at such a moment, with fresh and attentive eyes, through the medium of paint.<\/p>\n

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