Exhibitions

RICHARD FEASTER: METONYMIC

Zeitgeist Gallery / 516 Hagan St., #100 June 7 - 28th

Richard Feaster

I think of these paintings as part of an ongoing investigation into what a mark can be—how a brushstroke, a line, a smear or a spray can simultaneously reveal the artist’s hand and erase it. I’m interested in that paradox: the gesture that both says I was here and this could be anyone. This tension between presence and erasure has always been at the heart of painting, especially in the wake of Modernism. I see my work as being in conversation with that history—not to reenact it, but to push into the odd, unstable territory we find ourselves in now, where authenticity, style, and process are constantly questioned and remixed. I don’t approach the canvas with a plan. I build, destroy, react, obscure, and reveal. I want each painting to feel like it’s caught in motion—like it hasn’t settled into a final form. The goal isn’t perfection or polish, but rather a kind of visual honesty that comes from staying open to change and risk. If there’s a subject here, it’s the act of painting itself—the physical, mental, and emotional experience of making something that resists easy explanation.

Richard Feaster was born in Hagerstown, MD, and attended Birmingham Southern College (BFA), Tulane University (MFA) and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is included in many private and corporate collections. In 2016, he was nominated for a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. He lives and works in Nashville, TN.

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Image: Richard Feaster, Tipping Point, 30 x 24 inches