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My paintings and works on paper pursue abstraction as an intimately coded language of mark-making and editing, producing artworks that invite the consideration of process and materiality in painting as a site for new modes of visual discovery. I consider this work to be an ongoing consideration of process in abstraction, and a central theme is the perception of time via the experience of material handling and mark-making.

Presented in the work are “drips”, “splatters”, “stains” and other artistic referents, and these elements are reconfigured on the picture plane as a visual index for the viewer to pursue. 

- Richard Feaster, 2016

Richard Feaster has shown his work nationally and internationally, including exhibits at the City University of New York, National Academy Museum, and the Cheekwood Museum of Art, and his artwork is included in many private and corporate collections.

He received a BFA in painting from Birmingham Southern College and a MFA in painting from Tulane University’s Newcomb College. In 1993, he attended the Skowhegan summer program in Skowhegan, Maine. Feaster is represented in Tennessee by Nashville’s Zeitgeist Gallery.

Richard’s upcoming show at Zeitgeist Gallery, Psych Pastorale, opens January 7 and runs through February 26, 2017.