The Alchemist

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.

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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.