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| Plumbago |
Nashville-based painter Richard Feaster has returned to his native Brentwood, Tennessee from time spent working and showing in New York, Boston, and New Orleans. His work will be familiar to many from numerous group shows at Zeitgeist (Out of our Minds, Switchyard, and Ahead of Ourselves) not to mention the open studio competition New American Paintings. Feaster creates monochromatic surfaces of hand-ground powdered pigments (such as zinc, pewter, and several varieties of graphite) and then layers systematic brushstrokes of ink and gesso over them in wave-like, linear patterns. The result is a softly undulating, luminous field.
His latest work titled Plumbago, an historic term for “graphite,” carries on the time honored tradition with new twists. Allusions to handwriting, scientific illustration, and geophysicalprocesses are distilled and abstracted into well ordered calligraphic tapestries.
Richard Feaster received a BFA in Painting at Birmingham Southern College in 1989 and an MFA in Painting from Tulane University in 1993. He also attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1993.
Zeitgeist is pleased to also present works by native Nashvillian Jim Ann Howard and Colorado based artist John Geldersma.
Jim Ann Howard, a Zeitgeist stalwart, will show drawings rendered in hand-made carbon pencils of goddess and animist imagery in prehistoric art. The images were done on-site from the archives of The Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Jungian Institute in Manhattan.
John Geldersma comes to Zeitgeist from LewAllen Galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Geldersma’s work takes the form of multicolored poles based on Prayer Sticks. These meditative objects reference Native American, African, and Eastern traditions. He is a native of New Orleans and shows extensively across the US. |
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