Don Eddy

Don Eddy (* November 4, 1944 in Long Beach, California) is an American painter who is best known for his paintings from the 1970s in the hyper-realistic style.

Life and work

Don Eddy studied 1965-1970 at Fullerton Junior College in California, at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu and the University of California at Santa Barbara. In 1968 he had his first solo exhibition at the Gallery Kranin in Honolulu. Since 1972, Eddy lecturer at the University of California and New York University. In the same year he took part in documenta 5 in Kassel, in 1977, he also took part in documenta 6.

Eddy painted in hyper-realistic style based on photographs, which he is best known for his paintings of car details such as chrome bumpers, rims and hoods with reflections as well as for urban representations. Since the 1970s he also painted pictures window through which he can connect consumer with the urban environment. In its more modern works, however, is not the realism, but the metaphysics in the foreground.