Dance: Sculpture and Watercolor presents a focused exploration of movement, corporeality, and psychological tension in the work of Eric Fischl.

Bringing together sculpture and watercolor, the publication highlights Fischl’s sustained engagement with the human figure as a site of emotional exposure and physical vulnerability.

At the center of the book is the theme of dance—not as a formalized performance, but as an expressive state in which balance, intimacy, and instability coexist. Fischl’s sculptural works translate fleeting gestures into three-dimensional form, capturing bodies in moments of suspension or imbalance. The watercolors operate in parallel, emphasizing fluidity, immediacy, and the transient nature of movement through loose, responsive mark-making.

Across both media, the figure is never idealized. Instead, Fischl foregrounds awkwardness, desire, and psychological friction, allowing bodily motion to register as an extension of inner states. The dialogue between sculpture and watercolor underscores a tension between permanence and ephemerality, weight and lightness, control and release.

The publication situates Dance within Fischl’s broader practice, in which narrative suggestion, physical presence, and emotional ambiguity play central roles. It offers insight into how movement becomes a means of probing identity, relationships, and the fragile boundaries between self and other.