Galerie Eva Presenhuber is pleased to present Songs For The Sun., the gallery’s first exhibition with the US-American artist Austin Eddy.
Across mediums Eddy’s work is of multiple minds speaking in a rhythmic unison. Abstraction coalesces into figuration, as shapes become images and images shapes. Texture becomes a material contradiction and the illusionistic warping of viewers’ expectations. It all fits firmly in the tradition of modernism, renewing it a century later while simultaneously breaking it apart. That high art purity melding with an interest in and celebration of more vernacular pursuits. Quilting, collage, the flattened perspectives of rural folk painting that invent ways of depicting landscape and narrative away from classical representational and cinematic models of storytelling. The work manages to maintain a connection with early artforms across culture, be deeply American in spirit and yet insert itself into classical western traditions and genealogies. Within all of it is a sensibility for embedding feelings and the felt in ways that is universally read and personally interpreted. Beneath these images and objects private lives and understandings are beckoned to thrive.
AUSTIN EDDY
Songs For The Sun.
2023
Oil and Flashe on canvas
218.5 x 183 cm / 86 x 72 in
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AUSTIN EDDY
The Solitary.
2023
Oil and Flashe on canvas
218.5 x 183 cm / 86 x 72 in
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AUSTIN EDDY
Tree-shadows.
2023
Oil and Flashe on canvas
244 x 91.5 cm / 96 x 36 in
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AUSTIN EDDY
The Solitude Of Bliss.
2023
Oil and Flashe on canvas
172.5 x 132 cm / 68 x 52 in
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AUSTIN EDDY
The Dance Of Life.
2023
Oil and Flashe on canvas
183 x 91.5 cm / 72 x 36 in
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AUSTIN EDDY
At The Corner Of Green And Whitehead.
2023
Oil and Flashe on canvas
122 x 91.5 cm / 48 x 36 in
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AUSTIN EDDY
The Silence Of A Sleeping City.
2023
Oil and Flashe on canvas
152.5 x 61 cm / 60 x 24 in
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AUSTIN EDDY
November Night.
2023
Oil and Flashe on canvas
38 x 45.5 cm / 15 x 18 in
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AUSTIN EDDY
A Home Of One’s Own.
2023
Oil and Flashe on canvas
45.5 x 40.5 cm / 18 x 16 in
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Bird On A Branch.
2023
Oil and Flashe on canvas
35.5 x 45.5 cm / 14 x 18 in
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Telephone.
2023
Ink, cut paper on paper
Sheet 76 x 56.5 cm / 30 x 22 1/4 in
Frame 89.5 x 70.5 x 3.5 cm / 35 1/4 x 27 3/4 x 1 3/8 in
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AUSTIN EDDY
The Bliss Of Solitude.
2023
Ink, colored pencil, Flashe, cut paper on paper
Sheet 76 x 56.5 cm / 30 x 22 1/4 in
Frame 89.5 x 70.5 x 3.5 cm / 35 1/4 x 27 3/4 x 1 3/8 in
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AUSTIN EDDY
Autumnal Dawn.
2023
Walnut ink, colored pencil, Flashe, cut paper on paper
Sheet 76 x 56.5 cm / 30 x 22 1/4 in
Frame 89.5 x 70.5 x 3.5 cm / 35 1/4 x 27 3/4 x 1 3/8 in
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AUSTIN EDDY
Beginning.
2023
Walnut ink, cut paper on paper
Sheet 76 x 56.5 cm / 29 7/8 x 22 1/4 in
Frame 89.5 x 70.5 x 3.5 cm / 35 1/4 x 27 3/4 x 1 3/8 in
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AUSTIN EDDY
selected poems
EDITOR: Galerie Eva Presenhuber
AUTHOR(S): Mitchell Anderson, Austin Eddy in conversation with Dodie Kazanjian
LANGUAGE: English
PUBLISHER: DCV Books
Since 2018, the painter and sculptor Austin Eddy (*1986, Boston MA) has been reevaluating the dwindling conversations of modern painting in a world juxtaposed somewhere between abstraction and reality. Eddy’s evocative works playfully use brilliant colors, layered textures, vibrant bird motifs, and abstract planes of light, whilst all the while investigating loss and the fleeting passage of time that is the human condition. Perched on the edge of reality, his works are a visual poem celebrating the ephemeral moment that exists only for a second, before flying away into the past.
Austin Eddy was born in 1986 in Boston, MA, US, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, US. He earned his BFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010. In 2024 Eddy will the subject of a solo exhibition titled Songs for the Sun. at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Vienna, AT; and Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn, DE. Recent exhibitions include Sad Landscapes at Le Consortium, Dijon, FR (2022); Above the House Where Paul VerlaineDied, 12.26, Dallas, TX, US (2021); and The Poet And The Muse, Knust Kunz, Munich, DE (2020). Later this year, a monograph of the artist’s practice will be published in conjunction with Knust Kunz, Munich. He has also been included in various group exhibitions at: De La Cruz Collection, Miami, FL, US (2023 – 2024); Art And Newport at The Vernon House. Newport, RI, US (2023); The Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI, US (2022); Eva Presenhuber, Private Showroom, New York, NY, US (2021); New Hampshire and The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI, US (2019); The New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH, US (2016); Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA, US (2014).
