Description
Exhibition dates: September 15 – November 5, 2022
Opening reception: Thursday, September 15, 6–8pm
Julian Martin
Julian Martin has been integral to Fleisher/Ollman’s program since 2013, exhibiting in several group exhibitions and many art fairs. It is with great pride that we open our Fall 2022 season with his first solo exhibition at the gallery. Martin (b. 1969, Melbourne, Australia) began working at Arts Project Australia—a studio and exhibition program for artists with disabilities—in 1988, creating acrylic paintings of abstract monochromatic figures on paper. In the early 1990s, he adopted his trademark medium, pastel, and took up in earnest his investigation of the fertile zone where abstraction and representation coalesce.
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Dorothy F. Foster
Dorothy F. Foster (b. 1903, Jersey City, NJ; d. 1986, Port Jervis, NY) worked as a textile designer in New York City for much of her life, while painting and drawing in her spare time. During the last decade of her life she used ballpoint pens and colored pencils on magazine and newspaper clippings; greeting cards; and other ephemera. Foster incorporated the found media into her drawings with unexpected and fantastical effects, blending cartoonish and ethereal figuration with the underlying imagery (often photographs or fashion illustrations). The work was preserved in her sister’s home for nearly 30 years after Foster’s death, and rediscovered by her great nephew in the early 2010s.