[8] During his time in Detroit as a teen, while pitching his artwork at a local gallery, Eaton was introduced to Jerry Vile, the publisher of the alternative Orbit magazine, who gave him a job as an illustrator.
The work, titled Human Kind and made of gold, brass, and aluminum, features collages of popular culture in Eaton's idiosyncratic style.
[22][23] In 2014, Eaton painted a six-story public mural of Alexander Graham Bell, titled the Spirit of Communication, in West Palm Beach, Florida.
[27] In 2015, Eaton executed a commissioned mural for the Long Beach Museum of Art as part of the exhibition Vitality and Verve: Transforming the Urban Landscape.
[29][14] In that same year, Eaton executed a 100-foot mural of the legendary actress and model Evelyn Nesbit on the 236 Fifth Avenue building in Manhattan, New York City titled The Gilded Lady.
[30][31] In 2020, in Highland Park, Los Angeles, a vandal defaced a mural Eaton made depicting Martin Luther King Jr.
[33] In 2019, Eaton sued an Ottawa, Canada real estate developer for using a cropped image of Audrey of Mulberry in the promotional material for a student residence.