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Fishermen, power-line workers, and loggers may be a few of the deadliest jobs in America, but the list falls short in not mentioning artist Eric Finzi. Far from being a smock-sporting, beret-bearing paintbrush pusher, Finzi dons a hazmat suit and keeps syringes, propane torches, and toxic mediums at the ready to risk life in his laboratory of artistic alchemy.
Finzi’s newest pieces of survived peril are on display at Perihelion Arts in his “If Loving You is Wrong, I Don’t Want to Be Right” exhibit, a collection of large, haunting, epoxy resin portraits of couples engaging in strained interactions. An dermasurgeon trained in the classics, Finzi’s knowledge of chemistry led him to invent a gravity and time-sensitive creative process that’s part control, part chaos, and completely one-of-a-kind. “The resin ends up doing a lot of the painting; it has its own intelligence,” Finzi states on the gallery’s website.
Yeah, deadly stuff is kind of like that.
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