Forstmann is exhibiting in "Everything/Nothing: Paintings by Eric Forstmann" at the Mattutuck Museum (Waterbury, CT) March 3–May 19, 2013. A contemporary realist painter, Forstmann moves between still life painting and depictions of the landscape. Everything/Nothing is the title of one of Forstmann's trompe l'oeil works. Its subject is a rumpled and creased irregularly-shaped piece of brown paper that is suspended on a blank wall by a push-pin at each top corner. The title refers to the mysterious questions, What is Everything? and What is Nothing?
