Robert Longo - American Psycho

Robert Longo, 'Untitled (Eric, from the series "Men in the Cities")', 2025

Wall Street Minimalism. Movement and Release. 

An icon of the Pictures Generation, Robert Longo captures a fleeting moment. A sharply dressed man flails as if dancing, or recoiling from some force. Captured throughout the 70s and 80s, "Men in the Cities" interrogates the pristine, emotionless core at the heart of New York. 

Notably, artworks from the series appear in Patrick Bateman's apartment, in 2000's American Psycho. The inherent violence of the images a perfect complement to Bateman's own Wall Street inflected violence. 

The contorted body of 'Eric' can be read a number of ways. Pleasure. Pain. Dance. Reaction. An Outburst of Unexpected, Cathartic Movement. 

This print has been constructed using an intricate process involving layers of grayscale separation. The resulting silkscreen boasts a floating effect and hyperreal grain texture. 

Eric - emblematic of Longo's wider body of work - remains an icon of corporate resistance. An undercurrent threatening to crack the seams of the American Corporate Ideal, the genesis of a new American Psycho.