*Please note this location has changed to 634 Fire Island Blvd.

BOFFO presents Site-Responsive
Eric N. Mack
634 Fire Island Blvd., Fire Island Pines
Saturday, August 8
Exhibition On View: 12–6 PM
Public Reception: 6–8 PM

BOFFO is pleased to present Responsive, an exhibition by Eric N. Mack at 634 Fire Island Blvd., Fire Island Pines. Known for his practice that moves fluidly as painting between sculpture and installation with textiles, Mack transforms fabrics into immersive spatial compositions that challenge conventional distinctions between painting, object, architecture, and environment.

For this presentation, 634 Fire Island Blvd. becomes both site and collaborator. Mack’s installation responds to the home’s architecture, light, and domestic history, activating the building and surroundings through gestures of layering, suspension, draping, and accumulation. Textiles, color, and surface function not simply as aesthetic elements but as agents that reshape the viewer’s relationship to space, encouraging movement, perception, and embodied experience.

Rather than treating the house as a neutral backdrop, Site-Responsive considers the building itself as an active participant in the work. The exhibition explores how meaning is produced through context—how materials carry histories, how architecture frames encounters, and how place continually informs artistic production. Mack’s compositions invite visitors to navigate shifting visual and physical relationships, where the boundaries between artwork and site become deliberately porous.

Eric N. Mack (b. 1987, Columbia, MD) is a painter who radically reconsiders the medium’s traditional conventions. By utilizing found materials, Mack creates richly textured compositions that investigate painting in an expanded field and formal concerns of the practice. In 2025, Mack presented a one-person exhibition and site-specific installation at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, as well as a solo exhibition of new works at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York. Mack attended The Cooper Union, NY (BFA) and Yale University, CT (MFA) and is the recipient of prestigious awards and residencies including the Chinati Foundation’s Artists in Residence Program (2023); the Rome Prize (2021-2022); the inaugural BALTIC Artists’ Award (2017); the Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva Island (2017); the Delfina Foundation Residency (2017) and the Studio Museum in Harlem Residency (2014-2015).