Patterned Combinations
Exhibition Dates: October 1st - October 28th, 2021 in Firehouse Gallery, Flower City Arts Center, 713 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607
Reception: Friday October 1st, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. in Firehouse Gallery, Flower City Arts Center, 713 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607
Exhibition by Ceramic Resident Artist Betsy Foster
October 1-28, 2021
Opening Reception Friday, October 1 6-9PM
Gallery Hours Monday-Friday 9AM-5PM, Thursday 9AM-9:30PM, Saturday 12-5PM
My work revolves around layering patterns and stylized foliage over hand-built ceramic objects. Whether those objects are a series of functional pottery, or a grouping of tiles, I carry out repetitive actions to accumulate multiples. With different objects existing together, pattern is a way for me to visually organize the forms in relation to each other. The patterns and grids can obscure or interrupt the surface imagery or connect the objects as a series — it is the combination of these that the current work is focused on.
ABOUT BETSY FOSTER
Betsy Foster is an artist from West Henrietta, New York. She received her MFA from The Ohio State University in 2019, and BFA from The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2011. She has worked at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA and held Resident Artist positions at the Wellsville Creative Arts Center in Wellsville, NY, Elsewhere Studios in Paonia, CO, and Main Street Arts in Clifton Springs, NY. Betsy Foster currently resides in Rochester, New York creating ceramic work dealing with time, memories, pattern, and repetition.
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