F R E D E R I C K A F O S T E R
Artist, Curator, Educator, Activist
Represented by the Fischbach Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida
July 2019 Sage Assembly, Working Together towards Evidence-based Science, Seattle, WA
June-July 2018 Seattle Artist League, Art, Activism and the Salish Sea
In collaboration with Alan Honick, filmmaker, we gave a lecture illuminating issues facing the Puget Sound Basin, focusing on the loss of Chinook Salmon and Orca Whales, and some possible mitigations. I began teaching a class, “Art, Activism and the Salish Sea”, on June 12, 2018 and it will end July 17. I am introducing strategies for interventions, and helping artists articulate their projects, culminating in exhibitions, the first September 12, 2018 at the Seattle Artist League.
April 2018 Sage Assembly, Assembly: Algorithms and the Role of the Individual, Seattle, WA
April 2017 Sage Assembly, Presentation, and Performance, Exploring a Catastrophe to Water with Art and Science Seattle WA
Presented my paintings to the Sage Assembly (200+ attendees) and co-led with scientists a smaller group in an activity that included a performance with focus on the concurrent sewage spill in Puget Sound using a painting method developed by Randy Nichols. I also participated in 2018, an assembly on Algorithms and the Role of the Individual.
Art Education for the Blind
Collaborated with a braille artist, art historian/artist Hilda O’Connell and blind volunteers to develop verbal descriptions that could bring the artworks alive.
Foster Shapiro, Fredericka, and O’Connell, Hilda. “Early Renaissance,” Art History Through Touch and Sound. Developed by Art Education for the Blind, Inc,
http://www.artbeyondsight.org/handbook/acs-guidelines.shtml
I taught a class on Self Portraiture at the Doylestown Artist League in Pennsylvania, and before that a similar class at South Seattle Community College in Seattle.
Before moving to the East Coast, I taught Body and Soul Drawing with Selma Waldman at University of Washington Continuing Education and at the Factory of Visual Arts.
GUEST CURATOR
The Value of Water, Lisa Schubert, at the The Cathedral St. John the Divine, NYC invited me to join her team as the guest curator in a year-long exploration of water.
Chaired and produced a panel for this exhibition, and for the subsequent Value of Food Exhibition.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2014 | Water Way Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, Clarkson University, Beacon, NY |
| 2013 | Water Way Fischbach Gallery, New York |
| 2009 | Waterway Fischbach Gallery, New York |
| 2006 | Waterway Fischbach Gallery, New York |
| 2004 | Water Way Fischbach Gallery, New York |
| 2002 | Water Way Fischbach Gallery, New York |
| 1999 | From the Ground Up, “Quiet House”, Invitational installation, Duvall, WA |
| 1996 | Deus/Virus: Transforming the Protease, Riverrun Gallery, Lambertville, NJTransforming the HIV Protease, The Norbert Considine Gallery at Stuart Country Day School, Princeton, NJ |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2019
2018
2017 |
“The Value of Sanctuary” Cathedral St. John the Divine, NYC “Motherland: 2019 CoCA Members Show” Seattle, WASalish Sea Show, Seattle Artist League, Seattle, WABig League Art Show, Seattle, Artist League, Seattle, WA“18”Fischbach Gallery, Miami Beach, Fla., |
| Clio Art Fair, NYC | |
| 2016 | Think Big, Fischbach Gallery, Miami Beach, Fla., online The Endless Summer, Fischbach Gallery, Miami Beach, Fla., online In Plain Sight/Hindsight, Fischbach Gallery, Miami Beach, Fla., online The Value of Food Cathedral St. John the Divine, NYC, Curated by Kirby Gookin and Robin Kahn |
| 2016 | Think Big, Fischbach Gallery, Miami Beach, Fla., online The Endless Summer, Fischbach Gallery, Miami Beach, Fla., online In Plain Sight/Hindsight, Fischbach Gallery, Miami Beach, Fla., online The Value of Food Cathedral St. John the Divine, NYC, Curated by Kirby Gookin and Robin Kahn |
| 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 | Fischbach Gallery, NYC |
| 2012 | Value of Water, Cathedral St. John the Divine, NYC Written on the Wind, Rubin Museum of Art, NYC Places, Jim Kempner Fine Art, NY, NY |
| 2004 | les Fables de la Fontaine, The Meyerhoff Gallery, The Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD The Flag Project, (String #5) Rubin Museum, NY, NY – ongoing |
| 2003 | Fables: The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Well heeled, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA les Fables de la Fontaine, Temple University Rome, Italy Cenre pour L’art et la Culture, Aix-en-provence, France Turtle Times, Studio D’Ars, Milan, Italy |
| 2002 | Mind/Body, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Lawrenceville, NJ, April: Kate Somers, Curator |
| 2000 | Painting 2000, Bumberbiennial, Seattle, WA, curator Matthew Kangas Mary Mary, Seattle Underground Film Festival, Seattle, WA |
FILM
Mary Mary, Foster and Christopher Young, 1999; official selection: Northampton Independent Film Festival, Short Program #4: Surreal Reels and the Seattle Underground Film Festival.
WRITING
“Artists Celebrate the Salish Sea,”by Fredericka Foster in Collaboration with 7 other artists, Amazon Paper Publishing.
“The Smaller the Theater, the Faster the Music,”by Philip Glass and Fredericka Foster, with Beth Jacobs, Beth for Nautilus.
“Early Renaissance,”by Fredericka Foster Shapiro and Hilda O’Connell forArt History Through Touch and Sound. Developed by Art Education for the Blind, Inc, Collaborated with a braille artist, art historian/artist Hilda O’Connell and blind volunteers to develop verbal descriptions that could bring the artworks alive.
PRESS / MEDIA
2017
Interview for Praxis Interview Magazine
on WYBCX Yale University Radio, with Brainard Carey
2014
Video profile,“Like a Circle in Water” Part of the Elements series, commissioned by Tricycle Foundation, directed by Andrew Chan Gladstone; Summer. Official selection: Awareness Film Festival, Los Angeles, California; Blue Ocean Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Florida.
“SPOTLIGHT ON Fredericka Foster”, Tricycle Magazine, Summer
Paul Smart, “Going with the Flow: Water Paintings by Fredericka Foster at Beacon Institute,” Hudson Valley One, March
2013
Stephanie Strasnick ARTnews; “reviews: new york, Fredericka Foster”, September, NYC
Stephen Maine “Into the Deep”, Water Way, Fischbach Gallery, NYC
2012
Dovilas Bukauskas, “The Value of Water“, World Policy Blog, reproduction of “San Francisco Bay Diptych”
2011
Hrag Vartanian, “Manhattan Cathedral Explores Water in Art,” Hyperallergic, October
Diana Rico, “Guest artists: ‘The Value of Water’ at St. John the Divine,” Holy Waters, October
Molly Cotter, “Manhattan Cathedral Examines “The Value of Water” in a New Star-Studded Art Exhibition,” inhabitat, October
Jamie Leo, Robin Madel, Kai Olson-Sawyer, “Through Art, the Value of Water Expressed“, GRACE, September
2009
Carter Ratcliff , “An Aqueous Cosmology: The Art of Fredericka Foster”, Waterway, Fischbach Gallery, NYC
2005
Tricycle Magazine, Vol. XIV No. 4 Summer, “What the Water Knows,”reproduction of “Norwegian Fjord I”
2002
Elizabeth Neuman, “Fredericka Foster: Water Way”, NY Arts, April
Deloris Tarzan Ament, Mary Randlett, Iridescent Light; The Emergence of Northwest Art, University of Washington Press
2000
Tricycle Magazine, Vol. IX No. 4, Summer. Full page reproduction of painting, “Buddha”
“The Spiritual Journey: Interfaith Perspectives” Foster paintings shown throughout, Galen Films/Romano Productions, presented to the Parliament of
the World’s Religions by the Auburn Theological Seminary and the Temple of Understanding.
EDUCATION
B.A. in Art, University of Washington 1972 Factory of Visual Arts, 1972-3
COLLECTIONS
Commerce Bancshares, Comcast Corporation, Garrison Institute, Garrison, NY,
General Electric, Merck and Company, Microsoft Corporation, Morgan Stanley