"Deep Thought" mixed media with epoxy resin on aluminum, 36" x 44", 2012

If you are in San Francisco this weekend, stop by the Sloan Fine Art booth at artMRKT San Fran and check out the 2 pieces I am showing.  This one is called “Deep Thought.”  For more information, click here.

Steam, mixed media & epoxy resin on aluminum, 36 x 44 inches, 2012, Eric Finzi

To all my San Francisco area friends, I’ll be showing two paintings at the artMRKT San Fran, Sloan Fine Art booth, taking place May 17 -20.  The art market featuring over 70 galleries around the globe will be held at the Concourse Exhibition Center, 620 7th Street (at Brannan).

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I Thought You Knew, epoxy resin & mixed media on wood, 44 x 70, 2012 by Eric Finzi

Last Friday, Mark Jenkins wrote about “6 Painters,” the group show I’m in at Civilian Art Projects through February 25th.  Here’s what he wrote about my work in his piece entitled “Whirlwind Tour Through the District’s Many Paintings Exhibits”:

“Eric Finzi mixes pigment with epoxy resin, a fast-drying medium that requires a quick hand. Yet his images of formally posed women and men (and the occasional tiger) evoke stately art of the past. ”

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Cup of Tea, epoxy resin and mixed media on wood, 37" x 37", 2011 by Eric Finzi

Thanks to Molly Petrilla who wrote this blog piece about my work.

Eric Finzi is a dermatological surgeon who uses syringes, propane torches and other nontraditional tools to create epoxy resin paintings.

Finzi is well aware that he’s in a unique pool of people who don’t fit into a singular right- or left-brained category; something he says has been “both a blessing and a curse” over the years.

“I found that if I only did one thing, the other half of my brain just wasn’t as satisfied,” he adds. “I think it’s more common than we’re led to believe, but some people can’t understand why I don’t want to do one thing all the time, and I can never quite explain it to them.” (Molly Petrilla)

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Holding On

I am flattered…  Somehow I made the list of a “Thousand Living Painters.”  Glad I didn’t make the Thousand Dead Painters list!  Click here for the link.

I Thought you Knew, epoxy resin, mixed media on wood, 44 x 70, 2012

I am in a group show, “6 Painters,” with fellow artists Tom Bunnell, Cavan Fleming, Tom Green, Nora Sturges, and  Champneys Taylor, running through February 25th at the Civilian Art Projects, 1019 7th Street, NW across from the DC Convention Center in Downtown, DC.  The gallery is open on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 1 to 6pm.  I hope you get a chance to stop by.  The show is spectacular!

Thanks to Karen Sommer Shallet, editor of DC magazine, for featuring me in the December Arts & Power issue.  Writer Sarah Wildman did a great job interviewing me and understanding how art, dermatology and facial expressions interact.  Special thanks to photographer Benjamin Tankersley for coming to my studio in Kensington to shoot me at work and with my latest series of paintings, “Don’t Worry, I’m Not Dead Yet”.

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"Don't Worry, I'm Not Dead Yet," 40 x 30, epoxy resin on copper, 2011

I will be showing my latest work at the Scope Art Fair, Booth #E29 in Miami, November 29th – December 4th.  Sloan Fine Arts will show 5 of my pieces from “Don’t Worry I’m Not Dead Yet.” 

VIP Preview: Tuesday, November 29th, 4 to 8pm
Public Hours: Wednesday, November 30 through Sunday, December 4, 2011
For more information, go to the official Scope Miami web site.

“Don’t Worry I’m Not Dead Yet”  incorporate actual letters I wrote home to my parents when I was 13 and went away to a  summer camp in upstate New York for a couple of months.  The text references an earlier time, when children wrote letters home and the pace of communication was far slower.  Read More

“+1″ Group Exhibition of Small Works

Several artists who have shown with Sloan Fine Art and SFA Projects during their 2010/2011 season were asked to create a new piece and each invite one artist of his or her choice to participate.  In 2010 I created “Blowing Bubbles,”  a 10″ x 10″  epoxy on wood piece that I felt was perfect for the show.  If you are in NYC any time before July 29th, stop by Sloan Fine Art in the East Village at 128 Rivington Street.  For more information, go to www.sloanfineart.com.

Eric Finzi C’77, a dermatologic surgeon, has molded and sculpted hundreds of faces over the years: old men, young women, even legendary French actress Sarah Bernhardt. He’s plumped up lips, smoothed out brow lines, sucked up excess fat—and that’s just in his artwork.

This morning, he’s been working on faces in his art studio—a former auto body repair shop in a Kensington, Maryland, warehouse—but in a few hours, it’s off to the other faces awaiting him at his cosmetic-surgery practice in nearby Chevy Chase. He’s been splitting his work hours between art and surgery for over a decade now, the result of a promise he made to himself after finishing his medical residency.

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