Richard Feaster, born in Hagerstown, Maryland, attended high school in Nashville. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from Birmingham Southern College in 1985 and a Master of Fine Arts in painting from Tulane University in 1992. In 1993, he was selected for the prestigious Skowhegan summer program in Skowhegan, Maine. Feaster, who is also a musician, lived in New York for nearly ten years during which time he began working as a music studio engineer. In 2002, he returned to Nashville, where he continues to record music while maintaining an active painting studio. He has had one-person exhibitions in Boston, Nashville, and Jackson and has participated in numerous group exhibitions across the northeast and southern U.S. He is represented in Nashville by Zeitgeist Gallery.

Education

1993 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

1991--93 Master of Fine Arts, Painting

Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

1985-89 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting

Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, AL

Bibliography

Nashville Arts Magazine, September, 2006, Nolan, Joe

Eligible Receiver: Recent Works by Richard Feaster, Catalog & Essays, Knowles, Susan, Cheekwood Museum of Art, 2006

The Nashville Scene, April, 2004; August, 2005; February, 2006

The City Paper (Nashville), August 8, 2002, Walen, Drew

The Tennessean, July 2002, Bostick, Alan

New American Paintings, Volume 32, 2000/01.

The Boston Globe, March 30, 2000, McQuaid, Cate.

Tinycake.com, Featured Artist, 1999 - present

Cover Magazine, “Shaping Abstract Imagery,” June, 1997, Wright, Jeffrey C.

Presentational Painting II, Catalogue, Essays and Introduction, Hunter College, Leubsdorf Art Gallery, 1997

Selected Collections

Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

Birmingham Southern College, Birmingham, AL

Crosland Corp, Nashville, TN

Laylah Ali, Boston, MA

Julian Lethbridge, NYC

Clay Blevins, Nashville, TN

Barry Lapidus, NYC

Marci Klein, NYC

Robert Beal, Boston, MA

Thomas Ambler, NYC

Joan & Roger Sonnabend, Boston, MA

James Cullion, Boston, MA