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September 12 through October 31 |
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| Exhibit Description: |
| The High Window |
Zeitgeist is pleased announce a new exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Richard Feaster, entitled The High Window.
This will be the artists’ third showing at Zeitgeist. For this exhibition, Feaster introduces the viewer to some recent and exciting developments in his work. Borrowing its title from Raymond Chandler’s 1942 Noir novel, The High Window encompasses a group of artworks that draw upon a highly personal visual vocabulary, and include imagery inspired by experiences of psychedelia, disorientation, fragmentation, and nostalgia. With unexpected mystery, these new artworks present the viewer with what Independent Curator David Gibson calls “visual puzzles that have a metaphysical enjoinder.” Like Chandler’s beleaguered anti-hero Philip Marlowe, Feaster looks towards the big picture but is not content with the resolution of its parts. To this end, Feaster employs a variety of techniques, and the resultant objects are a hybrid of drawing, painting, and collage. The culmination of lengthy processes that include splattering, pouring, staining, collage, décollage and dry pigment applications, these artworks open a fresh discourse with the tenets of abstraction while skewing that language towards new sites of inquiry. As in the artists’ past work, metallic pigments play an important role in the artworks, adding reflection and depth, and conjuring notions of glamour and dystopia. The introduction of intensely hued color brings the possibility of new readings to the artists’ work.
Richard Feaster received an MFA from Tulane University’s Newcomb College, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He has exhibited his work nationally, including showings at the National Academy, the City University of New York, and the Cheekwood Museum of Art, among others. In 2005 he had a one-person exhibition in Cheekwood’s Temporary Contemporary series, and currently has artwork included in the Cheekwood-organized exhibit Tennessee Abstract Painters. Feaster lives and works in Nashville.
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