Additional Vintage Information:
Lynn Charles Foster
American B.1949
BS Art, Music, Drama, Masters in Art Western Oregon University.
Studied with: James Kirk, John Casey, Jim Mattingly, Larry Stobie, Peter Stone, Bob Richardson, Ruth Culbertson, Jim Van Patten and Dr. Dan Cannon.
Additional studies with Carl Hall, Jack McLarty and David Gilhooly.
Retired: Art Instructor Chemeketa Community College, High School and Middle School Educator
Selected Shows: (from 250+ Too many to list.)
Painting, Drawing, Sculpture and Mail Art.
Recent Vermont Shows:
“Trees” Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville, VT
Emile Gruppe Gallery’s Plein Air Festival Show, Jericho Center, VT
Art on the Fence, Stowe, VT
National Shows:
S.O.S Christensen Heller Gallery, Oakland CA. (A juried
show of art from recycled materials.) Best of Show
Mid-America Biennial National Art Exhibition Owensboro,
Kentucky, Juror: Abram Lerner, Director of Hirshhorn
Museum, Washington, D.C.
Paper in Particular National, Columbia College,
Columbia, MO, Juror:Selina Trieff.
Las Vegas National Art Show. Las Vegas Art Museum,
Las Vegas, NV, Juror:L. Sido
Nuclear Visions Traveling Show (Sponsored by the University
of Oregon Art Museum). US and Canada for 2 years.
"Me, Myself and..." Museum of Arts Downtown Los Angeles,
Los Angeles, CA
18th Annual Northwest International Art Competition, Whatcom
Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA Jurors: Linda Connor and
Robbie Conal
Found Object As Art, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA, Juror:
George Herms
Countdown 2000, Gallery 1078, Chico, CA Juror: Catharine Clark
N.W. Juried Art '83, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA.
Juror: Henry Hopkins, Director of the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art.
30th Annual Exhibition: Painting, Richmond Art Center,
Richmond, CA. Juror: Roy DeForest.
Big Sky Biennial, Idaho State U., Pocatello,
ID, Juror: Graham Collier, (one drawing and a sculpture).
33rd Spokane Annual, Cheney Cowles Museum,
Spokane, WA. Juror: James Hazeltine.
Solo Shows:
“Plastic World: Recent Found Plastic Assemblages”, Linfield Fine Arts Gallery, Linfield College,
McMinnville, OR.
Western Oregon University, Hamersley Library Galleries,
Monmouth, Or. Curated by John Olbrantz Director of the Hallie Ford
Linn-Benton Community College, Albany, OR
Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, OR.
Buckley Center Gallery, U. of Portland, OR.
North View Gallery, Portland Community College, OR
Western Oregon State College, Monmouth, OR.
Hallie Ford Brown Gallery, Willamette U, Salem, OR.
Courtyard Gallery, Portland, OR
Group Shows:
“Recycled Art”, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR.
Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR.
" Big Kids Toy Box", Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Annual Pacific N.W. Arts and Crafts Juried Show, Bellevue,
WA (award in sculpture) Juror: Donald Brewer, Director,
University Gallery, U.C.L.A.
Passion Seven Group Show, Humboldt Arts Council Carnegie
Gallery Eureka, CA
7 Painters New Members, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Or.
Published:
“Recycle, Reduce, Reuse” by Kate Walker, Macmillan Education Australia, 2004.
“Trash with Dash”, by Alice Leonhardt, Stecker-Vaughn Publishers, 2002, pp. 27-28.
“Art from Plastic Trash”, The Cousteau Society, Dolphin Log Magazine, March
2000 pp.6-7.
Collections:
The Getty Art Museum :Research Institute for the History of Art and
Humanities: Bern Porter Mail Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA
University of Iowa Libraries, “Alternative Traditions in the Contemporary Arts; Artist’s Works
and Correspondence Files.” Iowa City, Iowa
United Companies Lending, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR (Two works)
Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, OR
Western Oregon State College, Monmouth, OR
Mark Hatfield Library, Willamette U., Salem, OR
Copyright Lynn Charles Foster 2011