M. Foster
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Education
2013 // M.F.A. Sculpture // University of Memphis // Memphis, TN
2013 // M.A. Art History // University of Memphis // Memphis, TN
2008 // B.A. Art // University of Sioux Falls // Sioux Falls, SD
Solo Exhibitions
2013 // Barnacles // Box Gallery // Memphis, TN
2013 // Claustrophobia Shelter // ArtLab // Art Museum at the University of Memphis
2012 // The Bee House // PLA(I)N(E) Gallery // Memphis, TN
2011 // Free Beer // Odessa // Memphis, TN
2010 // The Solo Louvre // Black Sheep Coffee // Sioux Falls, SD
2009 // 365: A Polaroid Project // University of Sioux Falls // Sioux Falls, SD
2009 // 365 // Birdhouse Gallery // Austin, TX
2009 // Home // Café Mundi // Austin, TX
2009 // Prints // Lovejoys // Austin, TX
2009 // Rio Rita Lounge // Austin, TX
2008 // JPs Java // Austin, TX
2008 // Channel 1: Senior Art Exhibition // University of Sioux Falls // Sioux Falls, SD
2007 // New Works: Prints // Black Sheep Coffee // Sioux Falls, SD
Exhibitions & Festivals
2013 // HOLE // Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art // Memphis, TN
2013 // Contemporaries // Marshall Arts // Memphis, TN
2013 // Juried Student Show // Art Museum at University of Memphis // Memphis, TN
2012 // Bound: Book Arts // PLA(I)N(E) Gallery // Memphis, TN
2012 // Juried Student Show // Art Museum at University of Memphis // Memphis, TN
2011 // Seminar // 513 S. Main // Memphis, TN
2011 // Juried Student Show // Art Museum at University of Memphis // Memphis, TN
2010 // Postcards // East Bank Art Gallery // Sioux Falls, SD
2010 // 5"x7" 2010 Art Splurge // Arthouse // Austin, TX
2010 // "X" Postcard Print Exchange // Gallery 181 // Iowa State University
2010 // GALEX 44 National Juried Exhibition // Galesburg Civic Arts Center // Galesburg, IL
2010 // Valentines Happening // Market Skate Shop // Fort Collins, CO
2010 // Departures National Juried Exhibition // Ben Shahn Galleries // William Paterson University // Wayne, NJ
2010 // A Black and White World // Horse Barn Arts Center // Sioux Falls, SD
2009 // E.A.S.T. Teeny-Tiny Show // Birdhouse // Austin, TX
2009 // 60 WRD/MIN Participant // Austin, TX
2009 // Black Cock CD Release Art Show // Mohawk // Austin, TX
2009 // I Think I Look Like Me // Birdhouse Gallery // Austin, TX
2008 // Self-Portrait Show // Austin Figurative Gallery // Austin, TX
2008 // A Sense of Place Juried Competition // Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art // Augusta, GA
2008 // Colorado Tech. University // Sioux Falls, SD
2006 // Student and Emerging Artists Show // Craftsman Creek Studio & Gallery // Sioux Falls, SD
2006 // Mélange // Black Sheep Coffee, Sioux Falls, SD
Awards
2013 // Artlab Award // University of Memphis Juried Student Show
2012 // Centenial Award // University of Memphis Juried Student Show
M. Foster
Born in Sioux Falls, SD
Lives & works in Brooklyn, NY
Working primarily with found and salvaged objects, recent work deals with the ideas of space and conditions that creates home and place. Common threads explore the possibility of mobility and nomadic lifestyle or the roots that stabilize a home space.
Many pieces critique society and culture as influenced by cultural anthropology.
The choice to reuse materials is made in consciousness of conservation as well as the interest inmaterials that inherantly contain elements of meaning from previous use.
