MARLEY FOSTER
STUDIO
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ABOUT
Artist, Writer, & Educator living and working in Houston, Texas.
Foster explores the deeply embedded aesthetics of home (interior furnishings and decorations) within broader conversations about culture and conservatism in both Houston and the American South. Working with domestic materials, pieces explore the tension of this situated home as a space of comfort and simultaneous confinement.
Foster studied art and writing at Rice University, and is currently a Teaching Fellow & MFA Candidate at the University of Houston.
SELECTED SHOWS
2020
South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend IN
Making A Way
Artists responding to the Corona virus
2019 / 2020
Jonathan Hopson Gallery, Houston TX
Tove & Melton & Lisa & Gareth & Charles & &c.
Contributor of a "Chaplin" to exhibition by Lisa Lapinski & Gareth Long
Rice University, Humanities Building, Houston TX
VADA Alumni Show
2019
Third Space Gallery, University of Houston, Houston TX
Homemaker / Suburban Taxidermy
Solo exhibition of new works questioning identity, domesticity, and politics of the American South
2018
Rice Media Center, Rice University, Houston TX
Alternatively Stitched: Tri-X Thunder, Breathing Room, & The Explorer’s Room of Encounters
Mavis C. Pitman Fellowship Exhibition
2016
Tudor Fieldhouse, Rice University, Houston TX
Abandoned Pool Show
PUBLICATIONS
2020
“The Art of Living with Our Damaged Planet,” Green Theory & Praxis Journal
Volume 13 Issue 1 pp. 60 – 74
http://greentheoryandpraxisjournal.org/gtpj-volume-13-issue-1-january-2020/
2019
“Sculpture Month Houston Will Take You Out of This World,” Houstonia Magazine
Exhibition review of Outta Space, on view at Site Gallery fall 2019
“Amie Siegel’s Medium Cool Operates at a Slow Burn,” Houstonia Magazine
Exhibition review of Medium Cool, on view at the Blaffer Art Museum May – October 2019
https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2019/09/blaffer-art-museum-amie-siegel-medium-cool
2017
“Constructing a Gulf Coast Transmedia Narrative Archive,”
Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences @ Rice
Recipient of Greene Prize for Environmental Writing, condensed version
CONTACT
Email:
Instagram: @mar_workss