Since 2018 the American painter and sculptor Austin Eddy (b. Boston 1986 lives and works in
Brooklyn) has probed the manifestations of modern painting in a world between abstraction and
figuration. As a child and teenager Eddy immersed himself in the imageries of comics cartoons
and record covers. In the early 2010s he studied in Chicago with Barbara Rossi who had been
one of the Chicago Imagists in the 1960s. The deconstruction of everyday objects into
innumerable forms and hues became his central theme. Eddy's works play with luminous colors
overlaid textures animated bird motifs and abstract planes of light while grappling with a
human existence defined by loss and the passage of time. Situated on the margins of reality
his paintings and sculptures are like visual poems celebrating the evanescent instant that
exists only for a second before fading into the past. Austin Eddy completed a BFA at the School
of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010.