About

About

MICHELE FOYER
mefoyer@gmail.com
www.michelefoyer.com
|@michelefoyer|

Michele Foyer is a visual artist whose thoughtful abstractions address the movement intrinsic to color and its poetic qualities of relation, resonance and rhyme.

Her hybrid sculptural paintings made of paper and on canvas explore how we see and know.Foyer is intrigued by how objects, people and thoughts gather disparate times, places and modes of ordering experience in an often tenuous aggregate.She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA from UC Berkeley, honors + departmental honors.

Foyer lives and works in San Francisco and has exhibited throughout the United States and the Bay Area. She showed in "a clearing" curated by Mel Prest at the NIAD Art Center included her works as did Brand Library's paper exhibition. White Columns' "A Good Jawn," curated by Brittany Adeline King and "New Painting" at Site:Brooklyn included her work in an online exhibitions.

In 2022, she exhibited in "Turning the Page" a four-person show focusing on contemporary paper works at Sykes Gallery, Millersville University, PA, as well as in "All You is Brimming," a two-person exhibition at GearBox Gallery in Oakland, CA. She mounted the solo exhibition, "Color Travels" at Fourth Wall Gallery in Oakland, CA, and showed a large paper installation in "Weave, Bundle, Cut + Layer" at Root Division in San Francisco in 2021.

Ucross Foundation, Morris Graves Foundation, Lucid Arts Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Vermont Studio Center have awarded her residencies. New American Paintings will feature her work in a forthcoming print publication. Friend of the Artist and Lucid Arts Foundation highlighted her work in recent book publications. She has curated 10 exhibitions of contemporary art and written about color from a non-modernist perspective.