Austin Eddy – Songs For The Sun.

Opening on Friday, February 2, 6 – 9 pm

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.