Life's Work (so far)
Marley Foster (she/her) is a sculptor and educator from Houston, Texas. As an artist/ethnographer, she is dedicated to using creativity, community engagement, humor, and self-awareness as tools for social change in the South.
SELECTED SHOWS & AWARDS
2023/2024
Art League Houston, Houston TX
Flag Diary: What Protects
Community quilting installation & workshop series
2023
Idea Fund Grant
Andy Warhol Foundation
Houston TX
2022
Rockport Art Center, Rockport TX
Penny Redmon Visiting Lecturer Series
2-Day lecture & workshop
Art League Houston, Houston TX
ALH Instructor/Student Exhibition
2021
Museum of Fine Arts Houston Glassell Junior School, Houston TX
Faculty Exhibition
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts & Blaffer Art Museum, Houston TX
Convergence Research
Video performance, “Notes on American Fashion”
SITE Gallery, Houston TX
Annex Energy
Blaffer Art Museum, Houston TX
43rd MFA Thesis Exhibition
University of Houston Katherine G. McGovern School of Art
Elgin Street Studios, University of Houston, Houston TX
Southern Occupation: a Lady’s Guide
Solo exhibition, anthropological investigation of white middle class suburban aesthetics
2020
Winfisky Gallery, Salem State University
Making a Way: Artists Responding to the Coronavirus
Virtually “traveling” group exhibition from South Bend Museum of Art
South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend IN
Making A Way: Artists responding to the Coronavirus
Virtual exhibition
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