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Eric Stefanski I Can Be Your Lover Boy For Sale
Eric Stefanski
I Can Be Your Lover Boy, 2023
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 in 40.6 x 50.8 cm
Edition
Unique
About this work
Eric Stefanski's "I Can Be Your Lover Boy" presents a direct proposition rendered in the artist's characteristic text-based approach, transforming a simple declarative statement into a charged visual encounter. The words occupy the canvas with an immediacy that oscillates between vulnerability and confidence, the phrase itself carrying the weight of romantic offering, youthful bravado, and perhaps a hint of desperation that lingers beneath the surface of any such confession. Stefanski treats language as both subject and material, allowing the physicality of paint to carry emotional content that extends beyond mere legibility. The oil medium lends richness and permanence to words that might otherwise feel fleeting or disposable—the kind of thing whispered, texted, or stammered in moments of hope. There is something almost anachronistic about committing such a contemporary sentiment to the traditional format of oil on canvas, as if preserving a fragment of intimate communication for posterity. The work exemplifies Stefanski's ongoing investigation into how written language accumulates emotional residue, how phrases we encounter or speak become laden with personal history, cultural memory, and collective longing. The title and content merge completely here; there is no separation between what the work is called and what it says, collapsing the distance between artwork and utterance. Within the artist's broader practice, this piece demonstrates his ability to locate profound feeling within seemingly simple statements, revealing the weight that ordinary words carry when isolated and presented for sustained contemplation. For acquisition inquiries, please contact Guy Hepner gallery in New York.
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Edition & Provenance
- Year
- 2023
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Edition
- Unique
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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.