Transitional States & Future Ruins
Update: Transitional States & Future Ruins has been extended a week and all sales from this show between Oct 1-7 will be donated by Richard Feaster and Zeitgeist to the Biden campaign.
During this time, Zeitgeist will be presenting a series of online exclusive shows. The work in this show will be available through the month of September with free local contact free drop off in Nashville or $20 flat rate UPS shipping within the US.
Zeitgeist is pleased to present two new original series of unique works on mylar by Richard Feaster, Transitional States & Future Ruins.
Statement:
This new work began as a gambit of sorts, meant to nudge myself from the mental stasis of staying at home for so long sheltering from the pandemic. Digitally manipulated imagery has been a part of my painting practice for some time, and I wanted to push those experiments further by directly scanning the liquid-graphite brushstrokes and splatters I have collected for use in my paintings. The digitized shapes have been warped and distorted via computer into forms that would be nearly impossible to create in the real world, then printed, cut and collaged onto painted fields. These new mediated forms feel especially dark and personal to me, a product of these times of bouncing endlessly from one national crisis to the next, and from tragedy to tragedy, both personal and collective. I often think of painter Moira Dryer’s focus on using abstraction to “convey real feeling”, probably most acutely realized in her painting Wall of Fear or her series of small works titled Having a Hate Wave.
Richard Feaster, September 2020
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.
