artist statement

These artworks 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. In some works, the introduction of intensely hued color brings the possibility of new readings.

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