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Eric Stefanski Stop Flirting For Sale
Eric Stefanski
Stop Flirting, 2025
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 in 152.4 x 121.9 cm
About this work
Eric Stefanski's "Stop Flirting" presents the titular phrase rendered in the artist's characteristic hand-painted text, the words commanding immediate attention against a field that vibrates with emotional tension. The letters appear both urgent and weary, their forms carrying the weight of a demand that feels simultaneously spoken and suppressed. Stefanski's brushwork reveals the labor behind each character—edges that blur and bleed, surfaces that build through layered applications of oil paint, creating depth where flatness might otherwise dominate. The phrase itself operates in that charged space between intimacy and accusation, suggesting a moment caught mid-conversation, mid-relationship, mid-dissolution. Is this a jealous plea, a self-directed command, or an exhausted boundary finally drawn? Stefanski refuses to clarify, allowing the text to function as emotional residue rather than narrative explanation. The scale of the work—sixty by forty-eight inches—transforms these two words into an environment, something the viewer must physically confront rather than simply read. Within Stefanski's broader practice, "Stop Flirting" continues his exploration of language as both barrier and bridge. His text-based paintings extract phrases from their original contexts, stripping them of speaker and listener, leaving only the raw voltage of words that have clearly mattered to someone. The work sits comfortably alongside his other canvases that mine the territory of relationships, desire, and the things we say when we mean something else entirely. Each painting becomes a fragment of conversation preserved in pigment, inviting viewers to supply their own memories and meanings. For acquisition inquiries, contact Guy Hepner gallery in New York.
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