In anticipation of the Alden Mason Foundation Award ceremony and panel discussion in May, Foster/White Gallery is delighted to showcase the works of Alden Mason for the month of April. In addition to pieces from gallery inventory, the exhibition features paintings from the Alden Mason Foundation's collection. Predominantly figural, works are acrylic on canvas and mixed media on paper from 1990 up to 2010.
I have developed a process of pouring layers of tinted polymer on panel that has expanded the breadth of what I can achieve with color and surface in my abstract works. After pouring the tinted polymer, I manipulate the panel so the paint collects or cracks. The poured polymer mimics nature: a layer of polymer hardens like ice or mud —its thickness and viscosity impacting how the surface dries. The variations on the surface and the quality of the color are the result of a delicate and flexible relationship between control and accident. - Susan English
Foster/White Gallery presents the last installation of our Elements series: Elements: Air. The collection features new and existing works by gallery artists. Some interpretations are literal, while others rely on abstracted or symbolic representations of the element.
Working primarily with gouache on brown paper, and sometimes additions such as ink, graphite, charcoal, or collage, James Martin’s figurative scenes are at first glance humorous, with a myriad of characters from parrots, fish, and monkeys to Shakespeare, Picasso, mermaids, and pilots. A closer read reveals how ingenious the artist is, often utilizing the most subtle visual word play, and veering headlong into topics that without his deft hand may feel weighty. Martin's exhibition Taming the Square Mushroom showcases the gallery's current collection, with over 100 works of art on display.
Cody Cobb’s striking photographs communicate the solitude of remote locations, places he seeks to immerse himself in untouched wilderness. The isolation allows him more sensitive observations of the external landscape and his internal experiences within it. Cobb's Spectral series was featured in the June 2023 volume of National Geographic Magazine.
Bratsa Bonifacho’s paintings draw from the artist’s interest in language, classical music, and dynamic color, and more recently, from his interest in technology and cultural identity. Building off of his previously established visual language, Bonifacho's No Sugar Added series employs a simplified grid structures and code-like symbology that seem to embed messages on their colorful surfaces.
Small Works will focus on small scale works, with the intention of making art more accessible to first time buyers and seasoned collectors alike. Drawing from existing and new pieces by gallery artists, there is something for everyone in this diverse collection of unique artworks.
Stephanie Robison’s Call and Response showcases the transformative nature of sculpture. Creating playfully unique shapes with the materials she uses, Robison’s works are continuously in conversation with one another.
Robert Marchessault's work continues to focus on responding to space, form and color in landscapes. Using the genre of landscape, Marchessault references an awareness and concern for our natural ecology. While his work showcases the beauty in the natural world, the stresses are equally evident.
Julie Himel's Second Nature series is about the natural environment and our current relationship to it. Using both real and imagined places for her inspiration, Himel creates pathways and landscapes that invite the viewer to step into her dreamlike environments. The paintings represent present and future, and presence and absence at once. It is a longing for connection and a call for symbiosis with the natural world around us.
Will Robinson conveys an effortless elegance within his large-scale stone sculptures. Robinson's Figments looks to the natural world for its inspiration, capturing a myriad of subtleties such as the undulations of sails in the wind, the flukes of a whale, or the outline of a bird's wing in motion. Stones balance impossibly atop one another, emphasizing contrast between polished and raw stone. Each piece highlights the natural properties of the stones themselves.
The second 2023 exhibition of Tony Angell, Bird Day, showcases the daily habits of 24 species of birds as they conduct their lives in habitats around the world. Angell's clayboard ink etchings are selected from his collaborative book, Bird Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives. The book is co-authored with ornithologist Mark E. Hauber and published by the University of Chicago Press.