First Apartment by Eric Forstmann

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Eric Forstmann
First Apartment, 2022
acrylic paint on vintage coffee table
39 x 17 x 16 in.

Eric Forstmann studied … more Eric Forstmann
First Apartment, 2022
acrylic paint on vintage coffee table
39 x 17 x 16 in.

Eric Forstmann studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston under the tutelage of Barnett Rubenstein and Henry Schwartz.

In addition to his many solo exhibitions, Eric has had five one-man shows at the following institutions: The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri; The Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science in Evansville, Indiana; the Mattatuck Museum of Waterbury, Connecticut and Brenau Galleries at Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia. His work has been featured at Art Fairs in Miami, Palm Beach, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Houston, San Francisco and New York City.

Eric was included in important shows at the Norman Rockwell Museum in the exhibition Rockwell and Realism in an Abstract World and in Naples Collects at the Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida.

His work has been featured in publications Architectural Digest, ARTnews, New England Home, Berkshire Magazine, Connecticut Cottages and Garden and Main Street to name a few. Litchfield Magazine named him one of the “25 Most Influential People in Litchfield County”.

He earned a residency scholarship at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT in 2019. In the Fall of 2020, Eric was the Artist-in-Residence at Silo Ridge, a Discovery Land Company Community, in Amenia, NY.

Eric serves as President of the Board of Directors for the Five Points Center for the Visual Arts in Torrington, CT. The artist’s studio is also located in Torrington, CT.

Eric Forstmann’s work is held in museums, corporate, public and private collections throughout the U.S. and abroad. less