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Eric Stefanski Fuck Em For Sale
Eric Stefanski
Fuck Em, 2025
Oil on print
8 x 10 in 20.3 x 25.4 cm
About this work
Eric Stefanski's "Fuck Em" delivers its message with the artist's characteristic directness, rendering the dismissive phrase in bold, uncompromising lettering against a print surface that becomes both canvas and context. The oil paint sits atop the underlying print with deliberate weight, the words asserting themselves as physical presence rather than mere typographic gesture. Stefanski's brushwork carries the texture of genuine feeling—each stroke registers not as careful calligraphy but as emotional discharge, the kind of mark-making that happens when language becomes insufficient and paint must carry what speech cannot. The phrase itself operates on multiple registers: defiance, exhaustion, liberation, and a hard-won indifference that suggests battles already fought. There is nothing decorative here. Stefanski treats words not as design elements but as artifacts of lived experience, linguistic fossils preserving specific emotional states. The intimate scale of the work—just eight by ten inches—forces proximity, transforming a phrase often shouted into something closer to a private declaration, a mantra muttered to oneself in moments of necessary self-preservation. Within Stefanski's broader practice, "Fuck Em" exemplifies his commitment to language as raw material, stripped of ironic distance or conceptual padding. His text-based paintings function as emotional documents, capturing the residue of feelings that resist more elaborate expression. The work refuses to explain itself or apologize for its bluntness, trusting that the viewer either recognizes this particular shade of human experience or does not. For acquisition inquiries, please contact Guy Hepner gallery in New York.
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