Donald R. Eddy

American Master Painter Don Eddy is known as one of the pioneers of photorealism. He was born in California and received both his bachelor of fine arts (1967) and master of fine arts (1969) from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu; he attended the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1969 to 1970. In the 1970s and into the 1980s he was one of the artists listed under the heading of Photorealism. In exploring the nature of reality and visual perception, Eddy used photo-derived images and developed his own technique of airbrush painting using thousands of dots of color. Rather than basing a painting or print on a single photograph, as was the case with other photorealists, Eddy would work from as many as 40 photographs to ensure a consistently sharp focus for his often spatially complex images. In recent years his exhibitions have displayed multi-paneled paintings with architectural motifs and juxtaposed images of the natural world. The artist currently resides in New York.

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