Eric N. Mack

Eric N. Mack is a painter who radically reconsiders the medium’s traditional conventions. By utilizing found materials, Mack creates richly textured compositions that investigate painting in an expanded field and formal concerns of the practice. 

I think that interest in form has been a constant throughout my research and how I choose to talk about the work and the decisions I’ve made around the work. Formalism affords an interior set of values, this index of values that the work possesses.

Installation view: Cartouche (2025) in Eric N. Mack: Fishers of Men, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 2025–26. © Eric N. Mack. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert Studio.

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