About
Bio
Arron Foster received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking and Art Education from East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, and his Master of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking and Book Arts from the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. His prints and installations have been in notable exhibitions at respected national and international galleries, museums, and art centers. He has mounted solo exhibitions at George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon, The Dayton Society of the Arts in Dayton, Ohio, The Akron Soul Train Gallery in Akron, Ohio, and Hiram University in Hiram, Ohio. He has also participated in the International Youth Printmaking Invitational Exhibition in Changsha, China, and the 11th Douro Biennial in Douro, Portugal. Foster has received competitive grants from the Ohio Arts Council, Kent State University, the University of Georgia, and the Southern Graphics Council International. Foster is an Assistant Professor of Art at Kent State University at Stark in North Canton, Ohio.
Artist Statement
As an artist, I maintain an interdisciplinary creative research practice rooted in the production of artists’ books, prints, photographs, drawings, animations and installations. Intrigued by how the physical landscape is transformed into a cognitive one and how personal and public spaces intersect in the stories we tell about them, my work centers on what geographer John K. Wright described as experiential watchfulness, which involves seeing, documenting, and discussing specific places to stimulate local awareness, activism, and care.
I habitually mine both media and process for concept and form and consider how the tools and techniques of my discipline can add to or mediate the meaning of my work. By exploring an expanded definition of print media, which intentionally questions the intersections between print, film, photography, and digital media, I strive to create works of art that center hybridity, underscore the inherent tension between image and object and confront the histories inherent to both printmaking and photography..
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