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Eric Stefanski Everything For Sale
Eric Stefanski
Everything, 2025
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 in 152.4 x 121.9 cm
About this work
Eric Stefanski's "Everything" presents the titular word rendered in his signature style—bold, hand-painted letters that occupy the canvas with quiet authority. The composition centers the text against a field that allows the word to breathe, each letter carrying the subtle imperfections and gestural weight that distinguish Stefanski's practice from mechanical typography. Brushwork remains visible in the letterforms, evidence of the artist's hand translating language into physical presence. The choice of "Everything" as subject opens an expansive emotional register. The word functions simultaneously as declaration and question, suggesting totality while inviting viewers to project their own associations onto its meaning. There is something both overwhelming and tender in the scale of the claim—everything as promise, as burden, as the impossible scope of human wanting. Stefanski transforms what could be graphic simplicity into genuine painterly depth, the oil medium lending richness and permanence to a word we use so casually in daily speech. Within Stefanski's broader practice, "Everything" exemplifies his ongoing investigation into words as emotional artifacts. His text-based works strip language to essential utterances, isolating terms that carry accumulated cultural and personal weight. The paintings ask us to slow down with words we typically rush past, to sit with their implications. The substantial scale of this canvas—sixty by forty-eight inches—ensures the word cannot be dismissed or quickly consumed; it demands the sustained attention we rarely grant to language. For inquiries about acquiring "Everything" by Eric Stefanski, please contact Guy Hepner gallery in New York.
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Edition & Provenance
- Year
- 2025
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
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About Eric Stefanski
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.