Exhibit by Two Artists in Tibbott Center Gallery

by Emily Holt, art teacher

Artists Vadis Turner & Richard Feaster will have a show in the Tibbott Center Gallery this month, with an opening reception Thursday, April 7, 5:00–7:00.
University School of Nashville’s Tibbott Center Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by Nashville artists Vadis Turner and Richard Feaster. Sharing the language of abstraction between them, this exhibit offers viewers the opportunity to consider both artists' practices as they relate to one another in nuanced ways. Featuring hand-dyed and recycled layers of ribbon, clothing and bedding, Turner’s works transform the materials of traditional women’s work into radiant hybrids of the utilitarian and the abstract that are equal parts art and heirloom. Feaster’s paintings and works on paper pursue abstraction as an intimately coded language of mark-making and editing, producing works that invite the consideration of process and materiality in painting as a site for new modes of visual discovery.
 
Vadis Turner has exhibited across the US and abroad including the Brooklyn Museum, National Gallery in Prague, Andy Warhol Museum, Bass Art Museum, Hunter Museum of American Art, Islip Art Museum, National Museum of Trinidad and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, 21C Museum, Tennessee State Museum, Kentucky Arts and Crafts Museum and the Egon Schiele Art Centrum. In 2013 she was an Artist in Residence at the Museum of Arts and Design and Materials for the Arts in New York. In 2014 she was the Artist in Residence at the Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn. Turner was born in Nashville, Tennessee. She received her BFA and MFA from Boston University. www.vadisturner.com
 
Richard Feaster has shown his work nationally and internationally, including exhibits at the City University of New York, National Academy Museum, and the Cheekwood Museum of Art, and his artwork is included in many private and corporate collections.  He received a BFA in painting from Birmingham Southern College and a MFA in painting from Tulane University’s Newcomb College. In 1993, he attended the Skowhegan summer program in Skowhegan, Maine. Feaster is represented in Tennessee by Nashville’s Zeitgeist Gallery.  http://zeitgeist-art.com/richardfeaster
 
Vadis Turner images:
 
Impetus, 2015
Fabric, mixed media and resin
36 x 48 x 3 inches
 
Burn Pile, 2015
Fabric, mixed media and resin
36 x 48 x 3 inches
 
 
Richard Feaster images:
 
The Idle Race, 2016
Mixed media on canvas
36 x 30 inches
 
Untitled, 2015
Mixed media on paper
30 x 22 inches
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