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michael foster
Popsicle Toes 36” x 24” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on canvas
paintings 2014-2015
Resolution (left) 28” x 24” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on canvas
The Remaining 4% Remixed (right) 18” x 24” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on wood
Obsessive Complusive (left) 24” x 18” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on canvas
Close Your Eyes (right) 14” x 11” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on panel
You’re All I Need (left) 20” x 16” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on canvas
I Feel Loved (right) 24” x 24” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on wood
Memories of You (left) 20” x 24” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on canvas
Forsaken (right) 18” x 24” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on canvas
Comes Before a Fall (left) 48” x 48” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on two wood panels
Broken (right) 18” x 24” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on canvas
Still Waiting For Change
24” x 30” - acrylics, ink and
mixed media on canvas
Off in the Distance (left)
18” x 24” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on canvas
There Was Still Hope... For Larry (top)
14” x 11” - acrylics, ink and
mixed media on canvas
Memories of You (left) 20” x 24” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on canvas
Forsaken (right) 18” x 24” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on canvas
It’s Not My Birthday (left) 18” x 24” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on canvas SOLD
Leaving Behind (right) 18” x 24” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on canvas
paintings 2006-2013
Just to Fall in Love (left) 22” x 28” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on canvas
Red Infusion (right) 48” x 30” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on canvas
SOLD
And Then She Was Gone (left) 22” x 16” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on canvas SOLD
Rest and Relaxation (right) 16” x 20” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on canvas SOLD
Within Your Reach (left) 17” x 22” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on canvas
Sudden Stop (right) 16” x 20” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on canvas SOLD
Cherished / Vilify
40” x 30” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on wood SOLD
The Other Side (left) 24” x 36” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on canvas SOLD
October Jingle (right) 16” x 20” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on canvas SOLD
Everything’s Different Now (left) 22” x 28” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on canvas
I Should Have Done Things Differently (right) 30” x 40” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on canvas
SOLD
NOTABLE EXHIBITIONS - GROUP AND SOLO
2015
Genesis Show - Chicago, IL
‘BJAM’ Collaboration Show – White Ripple Gallery, Indiana
Schoenherr Gallery at the Wentz Concert Hall
May 9 thru June 30, 2015
Naperville, IL Friday, June 19 thru August 9, 2015
“Psychoterratica” Michael & Jaime Foster, Combined Show
NYCH gallery, Chicago Opening: August 14, 2015
2014
“Blue November” - NYCH Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Seven Deadly Sins” - Hermann Audrey Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013
“Manipulations” - Side Street Studios, Elgin, IL
“Relic” - Batavia Fine Arts Center, Batavia, IL
2012
“3rd Anniversary Show” - Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL
Village Ballroom, Portland, OR
“Winter Show” - Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL
2011
Phinney Art Series - Seattle, WA
The Loft Gallery, Pioneer Square - Seattle, WA
2010
Anniversary: Obmu - Edmonds, WA
“This Modern Love” - Artisans on Taylor Gallery, Port
Townsend, WA
2009
Art FX Gallery, Fremont, Seattle, WA
Open Art Studios - Seattle, WA
Kick It - Seattle, WA
2008
The Industry - Seattle, WA
The White Street Gallery - Frankfort, IL
2007
Anam Art Gallery (Featured Artist) - Naperville, IL
1997
Laura Sprague Art Gallery - Joliet, IL
ABOUT THE WORK
Painting for almost two decades, much of Michael’s work involves coming to terms with the abundance of technology-driven information overload we casually experience in modern day society. He uses acrylics and india ink
on canvas (or wood panels) to create a post-modern world that visually represents data in its raw form, existing
within multiple theoretical dimensions of spacetime. The thematic visual focus rests on the intricacies of the direct
and indirect interaction between the viewer and the abstraction of this data-driven internal conflict which forces
us, as a society, towards rapid self-actualization.
Michael’s current work starting in 2014 continues the visual analogy of civilization coping with Moore’s Law
through the lens of the subconscious. Distorted handwritten notes and encrypted keyword ciphers are interwoven
throughout mysterious structures and various abstractions including comic illustrations and other non-specific
futuristic forms. The result is a data-landscape of today’s anxious subconscious mind, presenting how we remember life events and interpret the kinetic surfaces and essences of the environment and emotions that we are
sometimes reluctantly embedded within.
In his spare time, Michael works as a graphic designer and writes for the Huffington Post and Psychology Today.
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Running Out of Time 48” x 36” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on wood
michael foster