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September and October 2024, September 18 - October 24, 2024
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Past exhibition
Eric Stefanski, I want to Exist, 2024

Eric Stefanski

I want to Exist, 2024
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 in
50.8 x 40.6 cm
Series: Paintings
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Eric Stefanski (b. 1987) is a Chicago-based painter recognized for his raw, emotionally direct works that merge abstraction, gesture, and language. Having grown up in Chicago, Stefanski’s practice reflects the...
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Eric Stefanski (b. 1987) is a Chicago-based painter recognized for his raw, emotionally direct works that merge abstraction, gesture, and language. Having grown up in Chicago, Stefanski’s practice reflects the city’s urban vernacular and the influence of street art, graffiti, and everyday visual culture. Over the years, he has presented solo exhibitions such as I’m a Genius, I’m a Fraud at Harper’s Gallery, where his works explored the psychological tension of creation, ego, and vulnerability. His paintings have been shown with galleries including Escat Gallery and VSOP Projects, gaining recognition among collectors for their blend of humor, self-awareness, and unfiltered emotion.


At the core of Stefanski’s work is his use of text as both message and mark. His handwritten statements, sometimes scrawled or partially obscured, feel simultaneously intimate and declarative—like confessions turned outward. These phrases often carry wit, irony, and exhaustion, exposing the contradictions of the artist’s own psyche while speaking to broader human insecurities. The words, rather than sitting on top of the paint, are interwoven into the surface itself—blurred by gesture, smudged by drips, or interrupted by bold painterly strokes. The result is a tension between control and chaos, where meaning is always on the verge of unraveling.


Stefanski’s work operates in a space between high and low culture, merging art-historical language with pop symbols and colloquial speech. His compositions are intentionally minimal, relying on the power of a few gestures or a single statement to convey an emotional truth. Through this stripped-down visual vocabulary, he transforms private struggle into shared experience, creating paintings that feel both diaristic and universally relatable.


Balancing vulnerability with humor, Stefanski turns self-doubt and existential angst into artistic fuel. His work reads like a candid conversation—direct, raw, and deeply human. The combination of painterly immediacy and text-based wit allows his art to capture a distinctly contemporary state of being: one that is self-aware, self-deprecating, and searching for sincerity in an age of irony.

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