
Paintings
75 works

I Miss Fucking You, 2026
Oil on canvas
16 x20 In
Eric Stefanski has emerged as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary figurative painting, garnering significant attention from collectors drawn to his unflinching exploration of intimacy, memory, and emotional vulnerability. His work occupies a distinctive position within the current landscape of representational art, distinguished by its raw psychological honesty and technical command of the oil medium. I Miss Fucking You presents a work of considerable formal restraint and emotional directness. The composition centers on a solitary figure rendered with Stefanski's characteristic sensitivity to flesh tones and the subtle interplay of light across skin. The intimate scale of the canvas at sixteen by twenty inches reinforces the work's confessional nature, inviting close and prolonged looking. Stefanski's brushwork demonstrates a fluency that balances precision with gestural freedom, allowing certain passages to dissolve into suggestion while others achieve sharp clarity. This tension between the resolved and the unfinished mirrors the fragmentary quality of desire and recollection that the title so plainly announces. The painting participates in a broader contemporary dialogue around the representation of sexuality and longing, yet Stefanski resists sensationalism in favor of something more quietly devastating. His palette, likely muted and flesh-warm, grounds the work in the corporeal even as the subject matter reaches toward absence and loss. The title functions not as provocation but as confession, lending the image a diaristic quality that distinguishes Stefanski's practice from more detached approaches to the figure. Guy Hepner is pleased to offer this significant work for acquisition. For pricing and availability, please contact the gallery directly.


Eric Stefanski is a Chicago based artist known for large scale abstract paintings that incorporate bold, handwritten text. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and earned his MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 2015.
Stefanski's work merges expressive mark making with direct, often humorous or self-deprecating phrases, using language as a way into larger themes around vulnerability, failure, and the pressures of maintaining a creative practice. His large-scale canvases favor vibrant color and bold lettering, with text functioning less as slogan and more as fragments of internal dialogue, blending humor with genuine emotional weight. Through this approach, Stefanski examines what it means to sustain a life as a working artist, treating uncertainty and contradiction as part of the process rather than something to resolve.
His work has been shown extensively in Chicago and Boston, along with solo exhibitions in cities including Tokyo and Madrid, and has continued to expand into galleries and institutions internationally.
He continues to live and work in Chicago.
Guy Hepner works with collectors seeking Eric Stefanski's bold, text-driven abstract paintings. Contact us to discuss available inventory or to inquire about upcoming releases.