Lucinda Barnes, chief curator and director of programs and collections at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), University of California, will discuss Eric Fischl’s distinctive approach to painting, which the artist has described as a visual form of storytelling and a technique for thinking. Fischl’s characters and scenes of middle-class suburban life are exotic, sensuous, and mysterious. The characters move from one charged situation to another. Fischl weaves complicated, evocative tales that hint at—but don’t specify--an interpretation. 

Lunchtime Lectures take place on the first Wednesday of the month at noon in the Charlotte Wendel Education Center. Visitors are welcome to bring food and beverages.

Image: Eric Fischl, The Bed, the Chair, the Sitter, 2000; Oil on linen; 78 × 93 inches; Courtesy of the artist; Photo: Christian Johnson and Barbara Katus.