 Eric Mackey is a classically trained realistic painter specializing in portraits and figures. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts, during which time he studied under the tutelage of master painter Jerome Witkin. Mackey then went on to receive his Master of Fine Arts at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, where he also spent five semesters teaching.
Although he spent the last decade as a graphic designer and print/pattern developer for major fashion houses such as The Gap, Nautica, Victoria’s Secret, and Banana Republic among others, Mr. Mackey has been continuously developing his skills as a painter, doing portraits, restorations, illustrations, and murals in addition to his own artwork. This latter body of work has been concerned with the possibilities of ink wash, which Eric has used to render studies of movie stills, adding, he finds, a fresh vitality to the concept of the film still as an art form in itself.
Mr. Mackey now comes full circle in his career as he begins afresh in the discipline he knows best, realism as expressed through the flexible mediums of acrylic and oil paints.
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