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Drawing and Painting from Life and Still Life
ÜHow Foss manages to extract exactitude out of arbitrariness is a secret we'll
never know: suffice to say it's the hallmark of a ‘natural,' as are Foss's breezy, ice-blue
palette and terse yet somehow avuncular, brushstroke. In her increasing fluidity of stroke
and format, Foss is finding herself a solidity of realist vision that looks to last the years.
It's a challenge, in the end, to our pampered representational sensibilities…Foss's art is
never easy. She wants to make the poetic concrete and the concrete a lyrical flux. In the
end, maybe Foss has as much to do with abstract expressionism as painterly realism. Her
struggle to both paint with formal freedom and ‘get it right' is more than a little heroic,¹
wrote critic Gerrit Henry, in a review in Art in America.
Her work is in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery,
Washington, D.C.; the Houston Museum of Art, Houston, Texas; the Guild Hall, East
Hampton, New York; the Brooklyn Museum; the Wichita Art Museum; the Museum of
Oklahoma; the Burchfield Art Center of SUNY, Buffalo, New York; the National
Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. and the Huntington Museum, Long
Island, New York, among other museums.
She has had one-person exhibitions at Berry-Hill Galleries, New York City;
Boston University; Clark Gallery; the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City; the
Addison Gallery, Andover, Massachusetts; Ferris Gallery, Los Angeles, California;
Glenn Horowitz Gallery and the Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, New York; SaintGaudens
Museum; James Goodman Gallery, Buffalo, New York; the Patrick and
Beatrice Haggerty Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee and DFN Gallery, New
York City. Ms. Foss is represented by DFN Gallery, New York City.
She studied art history with Leonello Venturi at the University of Rome, painting
with Rico LeBrun in Los Angeles, and studio art with the Italian sculptor Mirko. While in
Rome she also studied with Stephen Greene, who later taught at the Art Students League
of New York.
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