On view at Art Basel Miami Beach – Woman with Green Hat by Eric Fischl

The gallery’s presentation at Art Basel Miami Beach (Booth A13; 6–10 December 2023) features Woman with Green Hat, a work by Eric Fischl created as part of Vortic’s Artists Projects.

‘Working backwards from the newest technology of VR to one of the oldest, cast bronze, is the journey Woman with Green Hat has taken. No question about it, we live in an age of technological wonder, and being able to wed these two technologies is irresistible to me as an artist.’ – Eric Fischl

A programme of collaborations between the digital producer Vortic and a guest creator, Artists Projects reconsiders traditional modes of creation through technology. Each project is a unique collaboration – a standalone exploration and expansion of an individual’s practice. With access to state-of-the-art technology, from Mixed Reality to CGI and AI, participating artists are able to experiment in an alternate medium, creating new works entirely or re-envisioning existing motifs in a digital environment. 

Since the outset, Eric Fischl has been interested in the figure, the body, and the relationship of one body to another, all within the context of everyday life. To date, his focus remains on this representation through the investigation of new mediums and language. For Woman with Green Hat, what began as a virtual painting created in the Tilt Brush app has become a painted bronze, wall-mounted sculpture. Created with Pangolin Editions in Gloucestershire, UK, Woman with Green Hat marries the vivid world of virtual reality painting with the enduring craftsmanship of bronze casting, bridging the gap between the virtual and the physical to produce a work that previously would only have been viewable through digital platforms. In many ways, this phenomenon parallels the creative process itself: an idea making its way from the intangible imagination through to a concrete reality.