The heat of the moment: two-dimensional, fixed in time and space, Eric Fischl's paintings still manage to be utterly theatrical.(Interview)

A woman, naked, sits upside-down on a tastefully upholstered chair in a spare, well-appointed bedroom, a touch of chinoiserie to the fabric and the tea table. The chair is delicate, barely large enough to contain the woman's posture, her bent knees jutting downward, toes pointed together in the air.

A large dog looks up, perhaps longingly at the woman--or is he looking back toward the side of the smoothly made white-sheeted bed where a trio of balloons, one purple, one blue, one teal, float above the upstage-right nightstand? The woman looks focused, detached yet determined, like ...

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