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Don
Eddy
Don Eddy was born in Long Beach, California in 1944. He received a B.F.A. from the University of Hawaii in 1967 and an M.F.A. in 1969 from the same institution. In 1969-70 he attended the University of California, Santa Barbara for post-graduate study. Eddy's philosophical approach to his work is as much conceptual and abstract as it is about the images he paints. Moving away from an atmosphere of intense activity in his earlier works (of shelves filled with inanimate objects reflected multiple times) and a fascination for order in chaos, Eddy's new works are infused with an atmosphere of quiet and a balance between that which is cerebral, emotional and spiritual. To create his paintings, the artist utilizes a unique system he has developed over the years-- underpainting in three colors. The first layer is phthalocyanine green in a series of tiny circles about 1/16th of an inch in diameter. Eddy meticulously paints each of his works first in tiny green circles, a meditative process of setting the values for the painting. This layer is followed by brown, then purple, to separate warm from cool colors. He may then add between 20 to 30 layers of transparent color to achieve the radiant final palette of each painting. Eddy draws a map onto the canvas that only he can read, and then begins to create a universe. In conversations with the artist in the studio he might allow as how he is not "really making images, but simply making circles of different value." Eddy's work has been exhibited in numerous institutions in the US and abroad; among them are: Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock; Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, Wisconsin; Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida; The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Boise Art Museum, Idaho; The Brooklyn Museum, New York, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina; Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan; Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina; Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York; The Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana; Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York; The Oakland Museum, California; Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City; Orlando Museum of Art, Florida; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida; San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; Tampa Museum of Art, Florida; Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Whitney Museum of America Art, New York; Wichita Art Museum, Kansas; Aarhus Kunst Museum, Denmark; Australia National Gallery, Canberra; Gl. Holtegaards, Copenhagen; The Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon; Kunstverein, Hannover; Kunsthalle, Nuremberg; Salas de Exposiciones de Bellas Artes, Madrid. Eddy's paintings
are represented in the permanent collections of distinguished public
institutions including: Akron Art Museum; Boise Art Museum, Idaho; The
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; Danforth
Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts; Evansville Museum of Arts
& Science, Indiana; Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan; Fogg Art
Museum, Harvard University, Massachusetts; Fort Wayne Museum of Art,
Indiana; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Hofstra Museum, Hempstead,
New York; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii; Mississippi Museum of Art,
Jackson; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Art, Oklahoma
City; Pioneer Museum and Haggin Galleries, California; Rhode Island
School of Design Museum of Art, Providence; San Antonio Museum of Art,
Texas; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California; J.B. Speed Art Museum,
Louisville, Kentucky; Springfield Art Museum, Missouri; Storm King Art
Center, Mountainville, New York; The Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York; Israel Museum, Tel Aviv; Museo de
Arte Moderno, Bogota; Neue Galerie, Aschen; Sainte Etienne Museum, France;
Utrecht Museum, Belgium.
Information
in this short bio is excerpted from the artist's page on the Nancy Hoffman
Gallery Website. Click
here
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