FELICIA BELAIR-RIGDON
Felicia Belair-Rigdon was born in Washington, DC in 1942 and grew up in historic Alexandria, VA. Upon completion of high school, she lived in Stockholm, Sweden and traveled extensively throughout Europe. She studied at Konstfackskolan focusing on design and drawing, at Parsons School of Design, and at Virginia Commonwealth University where she received a BFA. Graduate painting classes were taken at The Corcoran School of Art. Her work has been exhibited at The Virginia Museum of Fine Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, and at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Ms Belair-Rigdon worked as an art director for The Washingtonian Magazine, Earle Palmer Brown Companies, and Weitzman, Dym and Associates. Since 1986 she has returned to fine art, working primarily in collage painting and oil, winning many awards and honors in her chosen media.

" A real sense of embedded meaning that is shaped partly by a deep sense of time- of ages and ideas past that we can't quite get hold of. The echo between ideas... the handling that reinforces the reality of images gives much to think about. "-Virginia Mecklenburg, Museum of American Art, July 1993

" Is the message 'this worldly' or 'other worldly'? Maybe it doesn't matter, for her aesthetic elegance is truly engaging. - Carole Faulk

"...extremely edgy...extremely and positively ambiguous, daring in format, unusual in subject matter.. -Dominique Nahas, Neuberger Museum, December 1990

THE TORPEDO FACTORY ART CENTER STUDIO # 319
Felicia was juried into the 'factory' in 1990 and has assisted in other studios prior to establishing her own. This year her work has been included in the mid-atlantic book of NEW AMERICAN PAINTING juried by Linda Norden Curator of Contemporary Art at Harvard University's Fogg Museum. Her work was also selected for a jurors award by Donald Kuspit for Art International 1997. Her work is included in private and public collections from New York to Los Angeles.

EDUCATION
B.F.A. Virginia Commonwealth University (formerly Richmond Professional Institute)
Parsons School Of Design, NY, NY
Konstfackskolan, Stockholm, Sweden
Corcoran School, Advanced Painting
Pyramid Atlantic

Price Range $300 - $3000