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Eric Fischl became known in the 1980s art scene for work that explores issues of sexuality and power and what it means to become a man. Alec talks to Fischl\xa0about his\xa0memoir,\xa0Bad Boy: My Life On and Off the Canvas,\xa0where the painter writes\xa0candidly about his youth, the art world, his own struggles with depression and substance abuse, and his thoughts about the creative process. Fischl started as an abstract painter, but as he explains to Alec, once he began to work with figures, he realized he was\xa0\u201cdoing the work that [he] was supposed to do, that [he] was built for.\u201d

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