About

MICHELE FOYER
mefoyer@gmail.com
www.michelefoyer.com
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Artistic Practice

Michele Foyer merges collage, painting and sculpture in dynamic works that suspend off the wall. Through an intuitive process of folding, painting, cutting and layering paper, she creates intricate compositions where color and shape emerge together. Fluorescent hues painted on the reverse side cast an immaterial glow of color on the wall that shifts with light, time, and place. Fluctuating light forms the true “ground” of each piece.

This interplay of light, color, and shape invites the viewer to peer under, behind, and through the works, while offering multiple paths for discovery within. The sculptural paintings remain open and subject to the mutation of these shifting and colliding perspectives. In a constant state of transformation, her art embodies how everything - our thoughts, sense of self, things and environment - are perpetually being reconstituted and are full of incongruity, as well as possibility.


Bio
Michele Foyer is a San Francisco-based visual artist. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, a BFA from the California College of the Arts, and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley. She has exhibited extensively across the United States in both solo and group shows. Notable exhibitions include Color Travels at Fourth Wall Gallery (Oakland), a clearing at NIAD (Richmond),Turning the Page at Millersville University Sykes Gallery (Pennsylvania), and Weave, Bundle, Cut + Layer at Root Division (San Francisco). Her work is featured in the White Columns Artist Registry, and in New American Paintings, as well as book publications including Friends of the Artist and A Place of Creation by the Lucid Arts Foundation.

Foyer has been awarded residencies by the Ucross Foundation, Morris Graves Foundation, Lucid Arts Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. As an extension of her studio practice, she has curated numerous contemporary art exhibitions and written about color from a non-modernist perspective. Her work is in private collections in New York, Connecticut, New Mexico and in the Bay Area.



Upcoming, NYC, March 11 - March 22: Opening Reception: March 13th
Dance the Distance, Michele Foyer + Anne Berlit, Exhibition awarded for work in This is the Future of Non-Objective Art
by curator/artist Susan Shutan, Atlantic Gallery, NYC