www.boojazz.com // 425.495.0415 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. www.boojazz.com // 425.495.0415 Running Out of Time 48” x 36” - acrylics, ink and mixed media on wood michael foster
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