Resume
Updated for the year 2023
STEVEN D. FOSTER
3906 Chatham Lane
Canandaigua, NY 14424
585-394-2769
sf@uwm.edu
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
I taught three years (1969-72) in the Art Dept. Photo Area at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque on a full Teaching Fellowship while pursuing my MFA degree in Photography. See my New Mexico 1971-72 project.
Georgia State University, Atlanta, Art Department / Photography Area, 1972-1975
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Art Department and Film Department,
Photography Area, 1975-2007 (Originated the Photography Area and Curriculum)
Retired from teaching May, 2007;
Moved from Milwaukee to Canandaigua, NY in August, 2008
EDUCATION
M.F.A. University of New Mexico, 1972
B.S. Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1968
A.A.S. Rochester Institute of Technology, 1965
Introductory note: After I retired from teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2007, and after my wife and I moved from Milwaukee to Canandaigua, NY in 2008, I initiated my Photography Blog TheDepartingLandscape.blogspot.com in late 2010. The blog includes a complete online compilation of photography projects and writings dating back to the 1960's and all of my most recently published projects dated later than 2007 to the present time (2023).
On the top of my blog's Welcome Page there is a section entitled "Most Recently Added Projects" in which you will find all of the new projects I have created within a year's time. Further down, past the Introduction section you will find my "Complete listing" of every one of my online photography projects beginning with the most recent to the very earliest projects. (mid-1960's). And just before the Complete Listing section there is section devoted to "Collections of Theme-Related Photographs & Projects."
I have provided a brief summary of noteworthy yearly events that relate to my photography for the past several years. Following the yearly summaries you will find these traditional resume categorical sections:
Solo Exhibitions
Invitational Group Exhibitions
Publications
Artist Talks
Co-operative Photo Gallery participation
Museum Collections
Grants/Awards
Gallery Representation
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2023 Summary of Creative Activities____________________
2022 Summary of Creative Activities____________________
2021 Summary of Creative Activities_____________________
2020 Summary of Creative Activities _____________________________
2018 Summary of Creative Activities __________________________
Retrospective Solo exhibition
Steven D. Foster : The Space Between ~ Selected Works from 1977 - 2017
March 16-April 28, 2018 at The Alice Wilds, a contemporary art gallery in Milwaukee, Wi.
Visit these four related blog projects which relate to the Alice Wilds exhibition:
The Rising Sun - Prelude To An Exhibition
Snow Photographs : Homage to Harry Callahan and All My Teachers
Symmetrical Snow Photographs : Homage to Alfred Stieglitz, Minor White, Valentin Silvestrov
Postlude to An Exhibition
A 74 page catalogue Steven D. Foster : The Space Between, 1977 - 2017. was created in association with the exhibition by Jon Horvath for The Alice Wilds. Postlude to An Exhibition
Daniel McCullough created an article about me and my photography, dated April 21, 2018 entitled Steven D. Foster : The Space Between for the blog Lenscratch in association with the exhibition. Visit this link: Lenscratch
Mary Louise Schumacher, award winning Art Critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, wrote twice about the exhibition on her weekly blog, Art City. (see my project Postlude to An Exhibition)
2017 Summary of Creative Activities ___________________________
In August, 2017 the Alice Wilds, a contemporary art gallery in Milwaukee, Wi. began representing my work.
My photographs were used for the CD front cover, back cover and multiple booklet images for the album: Morton Feldman : For Bunita Marcus, Mark-Andre Hamelin, piano and author of the booklet essay. Hyperion Records CDA68048 (click here)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019: Sound / Asleep, curated by WoWA's Tyler Friedman, consisted of two separate solo exhibitions presented simultaneously in the MoWA DTN gallery in the Saint Kate Arts Hotel, downtown Milwaukee. Eleven of my photographs from The Steve Lacy Series, 1977-78 were presented in the front gallery space; and Tomiko Jones' installation entitled A Place to Rest was presented in the back gallery. (See my blog project Snapshots to see installation photos of the exhibition.)
2018: The Space Between, a mini-retrospective at The Alice Wilds gallery, Milwaukee, Wi., March 17--April 28, 2018. click here and click here to see blog projects associated with the exhibition.
2012: Spectrum Gallery, Rochester, NY Jan. 6 - Feb. 25 Selections from: The Departing Landscape, Abstract Photographs, The Lake Series, Images of Eden click here
2012: Music Video Panalure - "Im Not Thinking About You" (using photographs from my Triadic Memories Project) click here
2004: Triadic Memories, Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee April-June. click here
2002: Triads and Quartets, Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee click here
2002: Environmental Law & Policy Center, Chicago (May 10) Retrospective
2001: Carol Ehlers Gallery, Chicago “The Garage Series” (shown with a separate exhibit of building facade photographs by Harry Callahan) click here
2000: Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee (two person show with Tom Bamberger) Garage Series
1999: Artspace, J.M. Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan Studies click here
1998: Carol Ehlers Gallery, Chicago Studies (click here to see installation shots)
1998: Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee Triadic Visual Poems
1996: Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee Studies
1996: Ehlers Caudill Callery, Chicago (Studies, three mini-solo shows: Dec. 95; Jan 96; Feb. 96)
1994: Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee Thing Centered Photographs
1992: Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee Color Dyptichs
1991: Ehlers-Caudill Gallery, Chicago Color Dyptichs
1990: Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee The River Series
1988: Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee Family Life Series
1988: Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, 12 Year Retrospective
1985: Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota-Duluth Images of Eden
1985: Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee City Places & Images of Eden
1984: Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wis. (with Tom Bamberger) Lake Series
1984: Perihelion Gallery, Milwaukee (with John McWilliams) Dream Portraits
1982: Art Institute of Chicago (100 print Retrospective 1975-1982, curated by David Travis)
1982: Young-Hoffman Gallery, Chicago Lake Series
1982: Swen Parsen Gallery, Northern Illinois University-Dekalb Negative Prints
1982: Perihelion Gallery, Milwaukee Intimate Landscapes
1980: Frumkin Gallery, Chicago Negative Prints
1979: Bradly Gallery, Milwaukee: Photographs by Steven Foster & Watercolors by Laurence Rathsack
1978: Renaissance Society Galleries, University of Chicago Steve Lacy Series
1978: Nexus Gallery, Atlanta The Steve Lacy Series, 1977
1975: Columbia College, Chicago Photography Gallery The Georgia Woods Series 1974
1975: Nexus Gallery, Atlanta The Georgia Woods Series 1974 & leaf collages by his son, Shaun Foster “A One Man-One Child Exhibition”
1974: Nexus Gallery, Emergence
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected, invitationals)
2023 Untitled (Show of 10) The Alice Wilds, Milwaukee, Wi. December 2, 2023 -
2001: Inova, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Art Museum, Oct. 18, 2001
2000: Center for Photography At Madison, talk and panel discussion on “Abstraction”
1996: “Photography from Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois” (February 9)
1997: Artist talk in the "Work-In-Progress" Series, sponsored by the Milwaukee Art Museum Photo Council, October 28, 97.
1988: "Lunch/Lecture" in conjunction with my retrospective exhibition at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
1986: Slide presentation of my work, University of Texas-Dallas
1985: Gallery talk and slide presentation on my work, the Tweed Museum, University of -Duluth
1983: Slide lecture on my work, Columbia College Photo Department, Chicago
1982: Art Institute of Chicago, slide lecture to the Photographic Society of the Art Institute in association with my solo exhibition there
FOUNDING MEMBER ARTIST-RUN PHOTO COOPERATIVE GALLERIES:
1973-75 Founding Member, active participant and exhibitor, Nexus Gallery, Atlanta
1976-83 Founding Member, active participant and exhibitor, Perihelion Gallery, Milwaukee
COLLECTIONS
Wisconsin Museum of Art, West Bend, Wi.
Art Institute of Chicago
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago
Milwaukee Art Museum
Madison Arts Center, Madison, Wi.
High Museum, Atlanta
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, N.Y.
Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota-Duluth
Art Museum, University of New Mexico
Private Collections (including The First Bank System, Ray-O-Vac , Prudential Corp)
AWARDS
"Honored Educator" for the 2019 Society of Photographic Education Midwest Chapter Conference, held in Milwaukee. I delivered a talk: Snapshots : Stories of My Life in Photography & Teaching.
Wisconsin Arts Board Individual Fellowship Award, 1998 ($8,000)
Wisconsin Arts Board Individual Artists Grant, 1994-95 ($3,500)
Milwaukee County Individual Artists Fellowship, 1990 ($10,000)
Wisconsin Arts Board Project Grants: l985/86, 82, 80, 78 ($2,000)
Wisconsin Arts Board Visual Arts Fellowship: l977 ($2,000)
Milwaukee Artists Foundation Project Grants: 1987, 84/85, 83
HISTORY OF GALLERY REPRESENTATION
2017 to the Present: the Alice Wilds, a contemporary art gallery in Milwaukee, Wi. John Sobczak, Director; Tina Schinabeck, Manager.
I was represented by Spectrum Gallery, Rochester, NY from January 6, 2012 through mid-June, 2015, when the gallery closed. A solo exhibition of my work opened there on January 6, 2012 thru February 25, 2012. As of mid-June, 2015 the gallery closed.
Carol Ehlers first represented my work in Chicago from 1978-2001 at the Frumkin Gallery – Chicago, and then later via the Carol Ehlers Gallery. She closed her gallery in 2001.
The Fassbender Stevens Gallery, Chicago represented my work from November 2002 through March 2003, then the gallery closed in 2003.
The Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee represented my work from 1983 through 2005 when the gallery closed.
WEBSITES ( with visual representation )
http://theDepartingLandscape.blogspot.com/
In November, 201o I initiated my photography website TheDepartingLandscape.bolgspot.com an online compilation of my all my photography projects and writings, from the mid 1960's to my most recently completed projects. Since retirement from teaching I have decided to focus my energies entirely to publishing projects on my website rather than exhibiting in galleries.
http://www.unf.edu/~clunberr/Lunberry/Publications.html
http://www.cnvill.net/mffostst.htm
Images and texts for the Garage Series Quintets, 2001 from the 2001 exhibition website of the Carol Ehlers Gallery, Chicago. This link is from the Morton Feldman Page
My website is linked to the Morton Feldman Page, Art Links. http://www.cnvill.net/mfalinks.htm
Other Related Links:
End of resume.
My work continues to be represented by the the Alice Wilds Gallery, Milwaukee. A selection of my photographs were exhibited December 2, 2023 - January 20, 2024 in tje show named Untitled (show of 10) "This show features the work of ten artists that have been living rent-free in our minds for quite some time. Finally, for the next seven weeks, they all will live among each other on our gallery walls" click here
2023 was, for me, the year eye operations and making inkjet prints. After a long period of publishing my new work only in digital form on my blog TheDepartingLandscape.blogspot.com a frightening and challenging series of FIVE eye operations beginning in January 2023 (described in detail in the Introduction to my project I began creating a digital print archive of my work and publishing the newly printed works within the archive on my blog. The archive exists in the form of the projects listed below which includes a series of Books and Projects consisting of 12x12" inkjet prints, plus other larger digital works that belong to other projects listed below and a collection of larger formatted images that I consider key images within my creative process. Visit: this link for details about the following 12x12" Books & Projects:
12x12" Studies Photographs Book TWO, July 7, 2023
The 12x12" Studies PROJECTS listed below differ from the BOOKS in that each project deals with a particular theme. The images exist as 12x12" inkjet prints made in 2023, and were selected from previously published blog projects which address the theme being explored. Each project's introductory text discusses the thematic issues.
I also made inkjet prints for the following new project and two revised projects:
June 6, 2023
Inkjet prints made in 2023
March, 2022
Revised May & June, 2023
Inkjet prints made in 2023
Revised April, 2023
A Photography Project about Death, Angels & the Blue Pearl
Inkjet prints made in 2023
In June, 2023 I created this additional project for my blog:
A meditation on my fascination with image repetition and image re-vision
(In 2024 will be publishing on my blog my Archive Collection of larger formatted inkjet prints which are among my favorite images which do not relate to each other thematically.)
Some of my photographs were published in the book, published by the Cedarburg Art Museum, Wi. entitled A Creative Place: The History of Wisconsin Art authored by Thomas D. Lidtke and Annemarie Sawkins. Several of my photographs were included in an exhibition based on the book. The exhibition opened at the museum on January, 22, 2022 and ran through May 8, 2022. ~ Another group exhibition entitled In the Parks With Olmsted : A Vision for Milwaukee contained several of my photographs from my 1983-84 project Images of Eden Series. The exhibition, curated by Annemarie Sawkins, ran from April 14 - September 25, 2022 at the Villa Terrace Art Museum, Milwaukee Also I completed eleven new blog photography projects in 2022. See my blog's Welcome Page for a complete listing of hyperlinked project titles made in 2022, and all other project made before and since 2022. /// Regarding the Retrospective Exhibition, book, and traveling exhibition intended to be realized in 2021 by the Museum of Wisconsin Art (which was announced publicly in October, 2019) has continued to be on hold, first because of the Pandemic and then because the curator who was to organize the exhibition and book moved out of state in 2021 after getting married and having a child. All I know at this point, and this comes from my gallery director, that the project remains a priority for the museum, but it is on hold for the time being.
2021 Summary of Creative Activities_____________________
This was the second year of the Coronavirus Pandemic. I stayed home, stayed safe, and made lots of (10) photography projects, all of which are listed with hyperlinked, dated titles on my blog's Welcome Page. The Retrospective exhibition, book, and traveling exhibition at the Museum of Wisconsin Art, announced publicly in October, 2019 to open in 2021 has been put on hold because of the Pandemic.
2020 Summary of Creative Activities _____________________________
This was the year of the Coronavirus Pandemic. I stayed home, stayed safe, and made lots of (12) photography projects, all of which are listed with hyperlinked, dated titles on my blog's Welcome Page. The 2021 Retrospective exhibition, book, and traveling exhibition at the Museum of Wisconsin Art, announced publicly in October, 2019, has been put on hold because of the Pandemic.
2019 Summary of Creative Activities _____________________________
Conference Talk: In late October, 2019 I traveled to Milwaukee and delivered a talk Snapshots: Stories of My Life In Photography & Teaching as the "Honored Educator" for the Society of Photographic Education Midwest Chapter's 2019 Conference.
Solo Exhibition: Sound / Asleep Eleven of my photographs from The Steve Lacy Series were presented in the front gallery of a beautiful exhibition space in the lobby of the Saint Kate Arts Hotel, Milwaukee where many of the SPE Conference programs were held. The gallery is officially called MoWA DTN (The Museum of Wisconsin Art, Downtown Location). In the back gallery Tomiko Jones presented her installation entitled A Place to Rest. ~ Both exhibitions were curated by WoWA's Tyler Friedman. I have included installation shots of the exhibition in this link: Snapshots: Stories of My Life In Photography & Teaching
Gallery Talks: Together with Tyler Friedman and Milwaukee based jazz artist (trumpeter) Russ Johnson, I gave two gallery talks in the MoWA DTN gallery in the context of the Steve Lacy installation of photographs. Russ gave improvisation performances at each talk in response to the photographs and their installation. included in the two-artist Exhibition Sound / Asleep. I have written about the gallery talks and included installation shots of the exhibition and included a link to Russ's improvisation video in this link: Snapshots.
Plans Announced for a Retrospective Exhibition
After I delivered my talk October 28,2019-- the last evening of the Conference--a member of the Planning Committee for the Conference announced that two miniature gelatin photographs from my Garage Series was purchased from the Alice Wilds gallery in Milwaukee and gifted to the Museum of Wisconsin Art. Tyler Friedman, curator from MoWA, came on stage to officially accept the gift of two prints, then he proceeded to publicly announce to all in attendance that the Museum would be mounting a large retrospective exhibition of my photography at the Museum (in West Bend, Wisconsin) in 2021, with a published catalogue and the intention to travel the exhibition.
Conference Talk: In late October, 2019 I traveled to Milwaukee and delivered a talk Snapshots: Stories of My Life In Photography & Teaching as the "Honored Educator" for the Society of Photographic Education Midwest Chapter's 2019 Conference.
Solo Exhibition: Sound / Asleep Eleven of my photographs from The Steve Lacy Series were presented in the front gallery of a beautiful exhibition space in the lobby of the Saint Kate Arts Hotel, Milwaukee where many of the SPE Conference programs were held. The gallery is officially called MoWA DTN (The Museum of Wisconsin Art, Downtown Location). In the back gallery Tomiko Jones presented her installation entitled A Place to Rest. ~ Both exhibitions were curated by WoWA's Tyler Friedman. I have included installation shots of the exhibition in this link: Snapshots: Stories of My Life In Photography & Teaching
Gallery Talks: Together with Tyler Friedman and Milwaukee based jazz artist (trumpeter) Russ Johnson, I gave two gallery talks in the MoWA DTN gallery in the context of the Steve Lacy installation of photographs. Russ gave improvisation performances at each talk in response to the photographs and their installation. included in the two-artist Exhibition Sound / Asleep. I have written about the gallery talks and included installation shots of the exhibition and included a link to Russ's improvisation video in this link: Snapshots.
Plans Announced for a Retrospective Exhibition
After I delivered my talk October 28,2019-- the last evening of the Conference--a member of the Planning Committee for the Conference announced that two miniature gelatin photographs from my Garage Series was purchased from the Alice Wilds gallery in Milwaukee and gifted to the Museum of Wisconsin Art. Tyler Friedman, curator from MoWA, came on stage to officially accept the gift of two prints, then he proceeded to publicly announce to all in attendance that the Museum would be mounting a large retrospective exhibition of my photography at the Museum (in West Bend, Wisconsin) in 2021, with a published catalogue and the intention to travel the exhibition.
(Note: because of the Pandemic the exhibition as been unofficially rescheduled for sometime in 2024)
Group Exhibition: Also, three of my Lake Series, 1981-82 photographs were exhibited at the Milwaukee Art Museum in an exhibition entitled Portrait of Milwaukee --September 2, 2019 through March 1, 2020. The photographs exhibited are in the museum's permanent collection.
Group Exhibition: Also, three of my Lake Series, 1981-82 photographs were exhibited at the Milwaukee Art Museum in an exhibition entitled Portrait of Milwaukee --September 2, 2019 through March 1, 2020. The photographs exhibited are in the museum's permanent collection.
2018 Summary of Creative Activities __________________________
Retrospective Solo exhibition
Steven D. Foster : The Space Between ~ Selected Works from 1977 - 2017
March 16-April 28, 2018 at The Alice Wilds, a contemporary art gallery in Milwaukee, Wi.
Visit these four related blog projects which relate to the Alice Wilds exhibition:
The Rising Sun - Prelude To An Exhibition
Snow Photographs : Homage to Harry Callahan and All My Teachers
Symmetrical Snow Photographs : Homage to Alfred Stieglitz, Minor White, Valentin Silvestrov
Postlude to An Exhibition
A 74 page catalogue Steven D. Foster : The Space Between, 1977 - 2017. was created in association with the exhibition by Jon Horvath for The Alice Wilds. Postlude to An Exhibition
Daniel McCullough created an article about me and my photography, dated April 21, 2018 entitled Steven D. Foster : The Space Between for the blog Lenscratch in association with the exhibition. Visit this link: Lenscratch
Mary Louise Schumacher, award winning Art Critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, wrote twice about the exhibition on her weekly blog, Art City. (see my project Postlude to An Exhibition)
2017 Summary of Creative Activities ___________________________
In August, 2017 the Alice Wilds, a contemporary art gallery in Milwaukee, Wi. began representing my work.
My photographs were used for the CD front cover, back cover and multiple booklet images for the album: Morton Feldman : For Bunita Marcus, Mark-Andre Hamelin, piano and author of the booklet essay. Hyperion Records CDA68048 (click here)
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Below are the following traditional Resume sections in this order: Solo Exhibitions : Invitational Group Exhibitions : Publications : Artist Talks : Co-operative Photo Gallery participation : Museum Collection : Grants/Awards : Gallery Representation
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019: Sound / Asleep, curated by WoWA's Tyler Friedman, consisted of two separate solo exhibitions presented simultaneously in the MoWA DTN gallery in the Saint Kate Arts Hotel, downtown Milwaukee. Eleven of my photographs from The Steve Lacy Series, 1977-78 were presented in the front gallery space; and Tomiko Jones' installation entitled A Place to Rest was presented in the back gallery. (See my blog project Snapshots to see installation photos of the exhibition.)
2018: The Space Between, a mini-retrospective at The Alice Wilds gallery, Milwaukee, Wi., March 17--April 28, 2018. click here and click here to see blog projects associated with the exhibition.
2012: Spectrum Gallery, Rochester, NY Jan. 6 - Feb. 25 Selections from: The Departing Landscape, Abstract Photographs, The Lake Series, Images of Eden click here
2012: Music Video Panalure - "Im Not Thinking About You" (using photographs from my Triadic Memories Project) click here
2004: Triadic Memories, Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee April-June. click here
2002: Triads and Quartets, Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee click here
2002: Environmental Law & Policy Center, Chicago (May 10) Retrospective
2001: Carol Ehlers Gallery, Chicago “The Garage Series” (shown with a separate exhibit of building facade photographs by Harry Callahan) click here
2000: Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee (two person show with Tom Bamberger) Garage Series
1999: Artspace, J.M. Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan Studies click here
1998: Carol Ehlers Gallery, Chicago Studies (click here to see installation shots)
1998: Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee Triadic Visual Poems
1996: Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee Studies
1996: Ehlers Caudill Callery, Chicago (Studies, three mini-solo shows: Dec. 95; Jan 96; Feb. 96)
1994: Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee Thing Centered Photographs
1992: Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee Color Dyptichs
1991: Ehlers-Caudill Gallery, Chicago Color Dyptichs
1990: Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee The River Series
1988: Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee Family Life Series
1988: Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, 12 Year Retrospective
1985: Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota-Duluth Images of Eden
1985: Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee City Places & Images of Eden
1984: Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wis. (with Tom Bamberger) Lake Series
1984: Perihelion Gallery, Milwaukee (with John McWilliams) Dream Portraits
1982: Art Institute of Chicago (100 print Retrospective 1975-1982, curated by David Travis)
1982: Young-Hoffman Gallery, Chicago Lake Series
1982: Swen Parsen Gallery, Northern Illinois University-Dekalb Negative Prints
1982: Perihelion Gallery, Milwaukee Intimate Landscapes
1980: Frumkin Gallery, Chicago Negative Prints
1979: Bradly Gallery, Milwaukee: Photographs by Steven Foster & Watercolors by Laurence Rathsack
1978: Renaissance Society Galleries, University of Chicago Steve Lacy Series
1978: Nexus Gallery, Atlanta The Steve Lacy Series, 1977
1975: Columbia College, Chicago Photography Gallery The Georgia Woods Series 1974
1975: Nexus Gallery, Atlanta The Georgia Woods Series 1974 & leaf collages by his son, Shaun Foster “A One Man-One Child Exhibition”
1974: Nexus Gallery, Emergence
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected, invitationals)
2023 Untitled (Show of 10) The Alice Wilds, Milwaukee, Wi. December 2, 2023 -
January 20, 2024
2022 A Creative Place: The History of Wisconsin Art curated by Thomas D. Lidtke and Annemarie Sawkins, January 22 thru May 8, 2022 at the Cedarburg Art Museum, Cedarburg, Wisconsin. The exhibition is based on the book of the same title.
2022 In the Parks With Olmsted : A Vision for Milwaukee April 14 - September 25, 2022
Villa Terrace Art Museum, Milwaukee Includes several of my Images of Eden 1983-84 photographs.
2019: Portrait of Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, 3 Lake Photographs from the Museum's permanent collection
2011: Exploring Photographic Style, High Museum, Atlanta - from the Collection
2007: Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
2007: “Place of the Transcommon” Inova/Vogel, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2006: Art Institute of Chicago “Photographs by the Score: Personal Visions Twenty Some Years Apart”
2004: Art Institute of Chicago “Pieced Together: Photomontage from the Collection”
2004: Milwaukee Art Museum “Super Hits of the 70’s” Permanent Collection show
2003: Fassbender Stevens Gallery, Chicago (select group show of gallery artists)
2002: Madison Art Center “Wisconsin Triennial 2002”
2001: Art Institute of Chicago “Sight-Set-Sequence”
2000: Art Institute of Chicago “Crossing the Line”
2000: “Work in Progress: The Madison Art Center Collects”
2000: “Factory Soiree” Milwaukee Art Museum, Oct.
2000: “Variations on a Theme” Uihlein Peters Gallery, Milwaukee
1999: “Under Construction” Milwaukee Art Museum
1999: Carol Ehlers Gallerly, Chicago,
1999: Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Arts Center, Madison
1998: Atlanta Photography Group Gallery: “First Light: The Nexus Photographers 1973-1978”
1998: Milwaukee Art Museuem, recent acquisitions exhibition
1997: Milwaukee Art Museum group exhibition "Wisconsin Art Since 1990: Selection from the Permanent Collection”
1997: Ehlers Caudill Gallery, Chicago, Summer Exhibition "Water"
1997: Milwaukee Art Museum "An Other History of Photography" exhibition from the permanent collection
1997: Art Institute of Chicago, recent acquisitions
1997: Madison Art Center, recent acquisitions.
1996: “Photography from Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois” Madison Art Center. December 1995- February 1996 (38 framed prints from the "Studies" project)
1996: "City Stories: 150 Years of Photography in Milwaukee" Milwaukee Art Museum
1996: Michael Lord Gallery
1996: Milwaukee Art Museum, "A History of Photography" curated by Tom Bamberger, Milwaukee Art Museum
1995: Traveling Exhibition: Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship Recipients: Miller Gallery, Madison; UW-Whitewater Fine Arts Gallery, UW-Milwaukee Fine Arts Gallery
1995: PhotoCollect, NYC, featured contemporary photographer in spring exhibition
1994: Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, '94 Benefit Auction-Exhibition
1994: "Locations" Fredrick Layton Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
1991: Mayor's Office, Invitational, Milwaukee
1991: "Verging on Emergence: A Milwaukee Artists Invitational," University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee Art Museum
1990: Madison Arts Center, "Wisconsin Triennial"
1990: Emporia State University, Eppink Art Gallery, Emporia, Kansas, "Ten Photographers"
1990: Milwaukee Art Museum, " A Decade of Wisconsin Art Acquiaitions"
1989: "Natural Beauty," First Bank Milwaukee Gallery, with J.P. Atterberry and Gregory Conniff
1988: Milwaukee Art Museum, "100 Years of Wisconsin Art"
1988: Burden Gallery, NYC, "Swimmers," exhibition organized by Aperture traveled two years
1987: Madison Arts Center, "Wisconsin Triennial"
1987: Milwaukee Art Museum, "Five Photographers"
1986: Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee
1986: Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe: "The Poetics of Space"
1985: Pace/McGill Gallery, New York City
1985: Photographic Resource Center at Boston University: "Photomosaics: The Landscape Reconstructed"
1983: Sante Fe Winter Film and Photography Exposition
1981: Walker Art Center: Fourteen Mid-Western Photographers
1981: Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography: New American Photography
1979: Art Institute of Chicago: American Photography of '70's
1979: Madison Arts Center, 4th Presidential Invitational Exhibition, Madison, Wi.
PUBLICATIONS (selected)
2011: Exploring Photographic Style, High Museum, Atlanta - from the Collection
2007: Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
2007: “Place of the Transcommon” Inova/Vogel, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2006: Art Institute of Chicago “Photographs by the Score: Personal Visions Twenty Some Years Apart”
2004: Art Institute of Chicago “Pieced Together: Photomontage from the Collection”
2004: Milwaukee Art Museum “Super Hits of the 70’s” Permanent Collection show
2003: Fassbender Stevens Gallery, Chicago (select group show of gallery artists)
2002: Madison Art Center “Wisconsin Triennial 2002”
2001: Art Institute of Chicago “Sight-Set-Sequence”
2000: Art Institute of Chicago “Crossing the Line”
2000: “Work in Progress: The Madison Art Center Collects”
2000: “Factory Soiree” Milwaukee Art Museum, Oct.
2000: “Variations on a Theme” Uihlein Peters Gallery, Milwaukee
1999: “Under Construction” Milwaukee Art Museum
1999: Carol Ehlers Gallerly, Chicago,
1999: Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Arts Center, Madison
1998: Atlanta Photography Group Gallery: “First Light: The Nexus Photographers 1973-1978”
1998: Milwaukee Art Museuem, recent acquisitions exhibition
1997: Milwaukee Art Museum group exhibition "Wisconsin Art Since 1990: Selection from the Permanent Collection”
1997: Ehlers Caudill Gallery, Chicago, Summer Exhibition "Water"
1997: Milwaukee Art Museum "An Other History of Photography" exhibition from the permanent collection
1997: Art Institute of Chicago, recent acquisitions
1997: Madison Art Center, recent acquisitions.
1996: “Photography from Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois” Madison Art Center. December 1995- February 1996 (38 framed prints from the "Studies" project)
1996: "City Stories: 150 Years of Photography in Milwaukee" Milwaukee Art Museum
1996: Michael Lord Gallery
1996: Milwaukee Art Museum, "A History of Photography" curated by Tom Bamberger, Milwaukee Art Museum
1995: Traveling Exhibition: Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship Recipients: Miller Gallery, Madison; UW-Whitewater Fine Arts Gallery, UW-Milwaukee Fine Arts Gallery
1995: PhotoCollect, NYC, featured contemporary photographer in spring exhibition
1994: Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, '94 Benefit Auction-Exhibition
1994: "Locations" Fredrick Layton Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
1991: Mayor's Office, Invitational, Milwaukee
1991: "Verging on Emergence: A Milwaukee Artists Invitational," University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee Art Museum
1990: Madison Arts Center, "Wisconsin Triennial"
1990: Emporia State University, Eppink Art Gallery, Emporia, Kansas, "Ten Photographers"
1990: Milwaukee Art Museum, " A Decade of Wisconsin Art Acquiaitions"
1989: "Natural Beauty," First Bank Milwaukee Gallery, with J.P. Atterberry and Gregory Conniff
1988: Milwaukee Art Museum, "100 Years of Wisconsin Art"
1988: Burden Gallery, NYC, "Swimmers," exhibition organized by Aperture traveled two years
1987: Madison Arts Center, "Wisconsin Triennial"
1987: Milwaukee Art Museum, "Five Photographers"
1986: Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee
1986: Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe: "The Poetics of Space"
1985: Pace/McGill Gallery, New York City
1985: Photographic Resource Center at Boston University: "Photomosaics: The Landscape Reconstructed"
1983: Sante Fe Winter Film and Photography Exposition
1981: Walker Art Center: Fourteen Mid-Western Photographers
1981: Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography: New American Photography
1979: Art Institute of Chicago: American Photography of '70's
1979: Madison Arts Center, 4th Presidential Invitational Exhibition, Madison, Wi.
1978: Milwuakee Arts Center, Wisconsin Directions 2
1978: Documenta, Syracuse, NY with Richard Blau and Robert Muffoletto
1978: Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wi Midwest Photographers
1977: Perihelion Gallery, Milwaukee
1976: Water Street Art Gallery, Milwaukee Four Brides of Stieglitz - Photographys by Steven Foster, Dick Blau, Tom Uttech, Jan Arnow
1975: Nine Contemporary Photographers, Art Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta
1974: High Museum, Artists in Georgia
1973: Temple University Art Gallery, The Document
1972: Nexus Gallery, Atlanta
1969: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY Vision and Expression
1967: Underground Gallery, New York City, January 12-29 with Roger Mertin and Alice Wells entitled: “3”
PUBLICATIONS (selected)
Note : visit my Welcome Page to my photography website/blog, The Departing Landscape, which includes the complete hyperlinked listings of my published online photography projects dating back to the 1960's and constantly updated to the present.
2007: Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Fall issue, 9 photographs with an essay by Clark Lunberry “Staring Sightlessly”: Proust’s Presence in Beckett’s Absence.
2005: “Foster’s Work Shines at UWM” article and reproduction by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Art Critic Mary Louise Schumacher, Sunday Cue section, September 25
2004: “Foster’s photographs set tone with the music” review of solo show at Michael Lord Gallery by James Auer, Milwaukee Sentinel art critic. April 28.
2004: “Remembrance of Things Present: Steven Foster’s Repetition Series Photographs, Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories” by Clark Lunberry, long illustrated essay found on the Morton Feldman Page website
2002: Cover art for CD: Morton Feldman “Violin and String Quartet” Fong Rangzen Quartet
2001: The Writer: June, 2001. Three color Photos from “The River Series” 1990 to accompany an article on poetry “In the Moment” by James Applewhite.
2001: New Art Examiner March, 2001: review of show at Michael Lord Gallery, with Tom Bamberger
2001: New City-Chicago March 2/9 2001: review of show at Carol Ehlers Gallery
2001: Art on Paper July/August 2001 review of show at Carol Ehlers Gallery
2000: Milwaukee Journal, Cue section, Oct. 15, interview and article by James Auer regarding he two person show by Tom Bamberger and Steven Foster at the Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee Oct/Nov 2000.
1999: Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Art Center
1999: Madison Art Center (cover of Sept/Oct/Nov quarterly for Triennial)
1999: John Michael Kohler Arts Center bi-monthly calendar (March/Arpil & May/June)
1998: Chicago Reader, July 10,1998: “Piece Work: Steven Foster at Carol Ehlers Gallery” by Fred Camper. Large article with two reproductions.
1998: New City Verve, July 2, 1998: Short review of exhibition at Carol Ehlers Gallery with recommendation by reviewer Michael Weinstein.
1996: The New Art Examineer, Chicago arts publication, March 96, review: "New Photography From Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois" at the Madison Art Center, by James Rhem. (Same review published in Art Muscle, Feb./March issue, 96)
1996: Milwaukee Magazine, August, 96, page 107, review "Pilgrams Progress, Studies by Milwaukee photographer Steven D. Foster" by R.M. Ryan.
1996: Darshan, December, 96, #117, inside cover, "Images of Eden" Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 21, Cue 7E, review: "Exhibit of small-scal works makes a large-scale statement" by James Auer (with reproduction)
1996 Art Muscle, Milwaukee arts publication, October/November, Vol 11, 1, "Essay/Steve Foster/Studies." a poetic review by Nathan Guequierre (with seven reproductions).1996: Milwaukee Magazine, reproduction of image in article "Valley of Dreams" by Tony Hopfinger, August, 96.
1996: Photography from Wisconisn, Minnesota and Illinois, Madison Art Museum catalogue (and a Gallery Talk, February 9)
1995: Milwaukee Magazine, June, '95, feature photograph--lake collage--for essay on Milwaukee.
1994: Milwaukee Magazine, November '94, two images from the "Images of Eden Series"
1991: Series of three covers (full page covers, in color) for UW- Milwaukee University Outreach catalogues (Summer, Fall, Winter/Spring issues).
1990: The River Series: MAKOM VII, editioned boxed portfolio of 12 color photographs, Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee
1990: Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Arts Center.
1988: 100 Years of Wisconsin Art, Milwaukee Art Museum.
1988: Swimmers, Aperture’s hard-cover book/catalogue for traveling exhibition
1987: Multiple Exposure: Five Photographers, Milwaukee Art Museum. Three reproductions, vita, and a text/transcript of dialogue between the five artists about the work in the exhibition.
1987: Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Arts Center.
1987: Editor's Choice II: Poetry, Fiction & Art from the U.S. Small Press.
1984: Chicago, ed. by Reginald Gibbons, a special issue (#60) of TRIQUARTERLY, an arts journal, Northwestern University. Portfolio of six reproductions.
1984: Clockwatch Review, ed. by James Plath, Vol. 2, No. 1, a journal of the arts, Driftwood Publications, Hartland, Wi. Portfolio of reproductions.
1984: Wisconsin Directions IV, Milwaukee Art Museum. One reproduction, statement,
1982: Steven D. Foster: The Lake Series, a booklet of sixteen reproductions, an artist's statement, and resume, co-published by the Art Institute of Chicago and TRIQUARTERLY, of Northwestern University
198l: Fourteen Mid-Western Photographers, Walker Art Center
198l: New American Photography, Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography
198l: Exposure, 19:1, Society for Photographic Education
1975: Nine Contemporary Photographers, Art Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta, A portfolio of images and texts by each photographer, plus one of my images was used on the cover piece (included John McWilliams, Todd Walker, Sam Wang and others)
1971: AMERYKA, a publication from Poland about American photography. My image published in the Time-Life series The Print was used.
1970: Time-Life Photography Series, The Print (one image)
1969: Vision and Expression, book with show of same name, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
ARTIST TALKS (selected)
2019: Late October: Together with Tyler Friedman and Milwaukee based jazz artist (trumpeter) Russ Johnson, I gave two gallery talks at the MoWA DTN gallery in the context of the Steve Lacy installation of photographs included in the two-artist Exhibition Sound / Asleep. I have written about the gallery talks and included installation photographs of the exhibition in my blog project Snapshots. Also, I delivered a talk Snapshots: Stories of My Life In Photography & Teaching as the "Honored Educator" for the Society of Photographic Education Midwest Chapter's 2019 Conference held in Milwaukee in late October, 2019.
2021: A Creative Place: The History of Wisconsin Art authored by Thomas D. Lidtke and Annemarie Sawkins, published by the Cedarburg Art Museum, Cedarburg, Wi.
2o18: Catalogue, Steven D. Foster : The Space Between Photographs 1977-2017. This catalogue was published for the Alice Wilds mini retrospective exhibition The Space Between, edited and with an essay by Jon Horvath. See my blog project: Postlude To An Exhibition.
2018: Two blog articles about the Space Between exhibition at the Alice Wilds in Milwaukee, by award winning Art Critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Mary Louise Schumacher, in her April 13 and April 20, 2018 entries in Journal Sentinel blog entitled Art City. I have quoted from the two blog entries in my blog project Postlude To An Exhibition.
2018: In Lenscratch.com April 21, 2018 Daniel McCullough published an article about me and my work on the occasion of my exhibition at the Alice Wilds gallery The Space Between. See also Postlude To An Exhibition.
2o17: Photographs for the CD front cover, back cover and multiple booklet images were published by Hyperion Records for their album: Morton Feldman : For Bunita Marcus, Mark-Andre Hamelin, piano and author of the booklet essay. CDA68048 (click here)
2o16: Photograph used as CD cover image by Hyperion records for their album: Feldman : Crumb CD68108 (click here)
2014: Sites of Performance : Of Time and Memory, Clark Lunberry, includes my photographs is the essey ‘Staring Sightlessly’: Proust’s Presence in Beckett’s Absence” Anthem Press, London, October 2014
2009: Beckett's Proust/Deleuze's Proust, eds. Mary Bryden, Margaret Topping; Palgrave MacMillian: 10 of my photographs in an essay by Clark Lunberry ‘Staring Sightlessly’: Proust’s Presence in Beckett’s Absence”
2018: Two blog articles about the Space Between exhibition at the Alice Wilds in Milwaukee, by award winning Art Critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Mary Louise Schumacher, in her April 13 and April 20, 2018 entries in Journal Sentinel blog entitled Art City. I have quoted from the two blog entries in my blog project Postlude To An Exhibition.
2018: In Lenscratch.com April 21, 2018 Daniel McCullough published an article about me and my work on the occasion of my exhibition at the Alice Wilds gallery The Space Between. See also Postlude To An Exhibition.
2o17: Photographs for the CD front cover, back cover and multiple booklet images were published by Hyperion Records for their album: Morton Feldman : For Bunita Marcus, Mark-Andre Hamelin, piano and author of the booklet essay. CDA68048 (click here)
2o16: Photograph used as CD cover image by Hyperion records for their album: Feldman : Crumb CD68108 (click here)
2014: Sites of Performance : Of Time and Memory, Clark Lunberry, includes my photographs is the essey ‘Staring Sightlessly’: Proust’s Presence in Beckett’s Absence” Anthem Press, London, October 2014
2009: Beckett's Proust/Deleuze's Proust, eds. Mary Bryden, Margaret Topping; Palgrave MacMillian: 10 of my photographs in an essay by Clark Lunberry ‘Staring Sightlessly’: Proust’s Presence in Beckett’s Absence”
2007: Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Fall issue, 9 photographs with an essay by Clark Lunberry “Staring Sightlessly”: Proust’s Presence in Beckett’s Absence.
2005: “Foster’s Work Shines at UWM” article and reproduction by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Art Critic Mary Louise Schumacher, Sunday Cue section, September 25
2004: “Foster’s photographs set tone with the music” review of solo show at Michael Lord Gallery by James Auer, Milwaukee Sentinel art critic. April 28.
2004: “Remembrance of Things Present: Steven Foster’s Repetition Series Photographs, Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories” by Clark Lunberry, long illustrated essay found on the Morton Feldman Page website
2002: Cover art for CD: Morton Feldman “Violin and String Quartet” Fong Rangzen Quartet
2001: The Writer: June, 2001. Three color Photos from “The River Series” 1990 to accompany an article on poetry “In the Moment” by James Applewhite.
2001: New Art Examiner March, 2001: review of show at Michael Lord Gallery, with Tom Bamberger
2001: New City-Chicago March 2/9 2001: review of show at Carol Ehlers Gallery
2001: Art on Paper July/August 2001 review of show at Carol Ehlers Gallery
2000: Milwaukee Journal, Cue section, Oct. 15, interview and article by James Auer regarding he two person show by Tom Bamberger and Steven Foster at the Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee Oct/Nov 2000.
1999: Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Art Center
1999: Madison Art Center (cover of Sept/Oct/Nov quarterly for Triennial)
1999: John Michael Kohler Arts Center bi-monthly calendar (March/Arpil & May/June)
1998: Chicago Reader, July 10,1998: “Piece Work: Steven Foster at Carol Ehlers Gallery” by Fred Camper. Large article with two reproductions.
1998: New City Verve, July 2, 1998: Short review of exhibition at Carol Ehlers Gallery with recommendation by reviewer Michael Weinstein.
1996: The New Art Examineer, Chicago arts publication, March 96, review: "New Photography From Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois" at the Madison Art Center, by James Rhem. (Same review published in Art Muscle, Feb./March issue, 96)
1996: Milwaukee Magazine, August, 96, page 107, review "Pilgrams Progress, Studies by Milwaukee photographer Steven D. Foster" by R.M. Ryan.
1996: Darshan, December, 96, #117, inside cover, "Images of Eden" Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 21, Cue 7E, review: "Exhibit of small-scal works makes a large-scale statement" by James Auer (with reproduction)
1996 Art Muscle, Milwaukee arts publication, October/November, Vol 11, 1, "Essay/Steve Foster/Studies." a poetic review by Nathan Guequierre (with seven reproductions).1996: Milwaukee Magazine, reproduction of image in article "Valley of Dreams" by Tony Hopfinger, August, 96.
1996: Photography from Wisconisn, Minnesota and Illinois, Madison Art Museum catalogue (and a Gallery Talk, February 9)
1995: Milwaukee Magazine, June, '95, feature photograph--lake collage--for essay on Milwaukee.
1994: Milwaukee Magazine, November '94, two images from the "Images of Eden Series"
1991: Series of three covers (full page covers, in color) for UW- Milwaukee University Outreach catalogues (Summer, Fall, Winter/Spring issues).
1990: The River Series: MAKOM VII, editioned boxed portfolio of 12 color photographs, Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee
1990: Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Arts Center.
1988: 100 Years of Wisconsin Art, Milwaukee Art Museum.
1988: Swimmers, Aperture’s hard-cover book/catalogue for traveling exhibition
1987: Multiple Exposure: Five Photographers, Milwaukee Art Museum. Three reproductions, vita, and a text/transcript of dialogue between the five artists about the work in the exhibition.
1987: Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Arts Center.
1987: Editor's Choice II: Poetry, Fiction & Art from the U.S. Small Press.
1984: Chicago, ed. by Reginald Gibbons, a special issue (#60) of TRIQUARTERLY, an arts journal, Northwestern University. Portfolio of six reproductions.
1984: Clockwatch Review, ed. by James Plath, Vol. 2, No. 1, a journal of the arts, Driftwood Publications, Hartland, Wi. Portfolio of reproductions.
1984: Wisconsin Directions IV, Milwaukee Art Museum. One reproduction, statement,
1982: Steven D. Foster: The Lake Series, a booklet of sixteen reproductions, an artist's statement, and resume, co-published by the Art Institute of Chicago and TRIQUARTERLY, of Northwestern University
198l: Fourteen Mid-Western Photographers, Walker Art Center
198l: New American Photography, Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography
198l: Exposure, 19:1, Society for Photographic Education
1975: Nine Contemporary Photographers, Art Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta, A portfolio of images and texts by each photographer, plus one of my images was used on the cover piece (included John McWilliams, Todd Walker, Sam Wang and others)
1971: AMERYKA, a publication from Poland about American photography. My image published in the Time-Life series The Print was used.
1970: Time-Life Photography Series, The Print (one image)
1969: Vision and Expression, book with show of same name, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
ARTIST TALKS (selected)
2019: Late October: Together with Tyler Friedman and Milwaukee based jazz artist (trumpeter) Russ Johnson, I gave two gallery talks at the MoWA DTN gallery in the context of the Steve Lacy installation of photographs included in the two-artist Exhibition Sound / Asleep. I have written about the gallery talks and included installation photographs of the exhibition in my blog project Snapshots. Also, I delivered a talk Snapshots: Stories of My Life In Photography & Teaching as the "Honored Educator" for the Society of Photographic Education Midwest Chapter's 2019 Conference held in Milwaukee in late October, 2019.
2018: Two Gallery Talks at the Alice Wilds gallery, Milwaukee, is association with my mini retrospective exhibition entitled The Space Between. See my blog project Postlude To An Exhibition
2012: Gallery talk in association to my solo exhibition at the Spectrum Gallery, Rochester, NY
2012: Gallery talk in association to my solo exhibition at the Spectrum Gallery, Rochester, NY
2001: Inova, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Art Museum, Oct. 18, 2001
2000: Center for Photography At Madison, talk and panel discussion on “Abstraction”
1996: “Photography from Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois” (February 9)
1997: Artist talk in the "Work-In-Progress" Series, sponsored by the Milwaukee Art Museum Photo Council, October 28, 97.
1988: "Lunch/Lecture" in conjunction with my retrospective exhibition at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
1986: Slide presentation of my work, University of Texas-Dallas
1985: Gallery talk and slide presentation on my work, the Tweed Museum, University of -Duluth
1983: Slide lecture on my work, Columbia College Photo Department, Chicago
1982: Art Institute of Chicago, slide lecture to the Photographic Society of the Art Institute in association with my solo exhibition there
FOUNDING MEMBER ARTIST-RUN PHOTO COOPERATIVE GALLERIES:
1973-75 Founding Member, active participant and exhibitor, Nexus Gallery, Atlanta
1976-83 Founding Member, active participant and exhibitor, Perihelion Gallery, Milwaukee
COLLECTIONS
Wisconsin Museum of Art, West Bend, Wi.
Art Institute of Chicago
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago
Milwaukee Art Museum
Madison Arts Center, Madison, Wi.
High Museum, Atlanta
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, N.Y.
Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota-Duluth
Art Museum, University of New Mexico
Private Collections (including The First Bank System, Ray-O-Vac , Prudential Corp)
AWARDS
"Honored Educator" for the 2019 Society of Photographic Education Midwest Chapter Conference, held in Milwaukee. I delivered a talk: Snapshots : Stories of My Life in Photography & Teaching.
Wisconsin Arts Board Individual Fellowship Award, 1998 ($8,000)
Wisconsin Arts Board Individual Artists Grant, 1994-95 ($3,500)
Milwaukee County Individual Artists Fellowship, 1990 ($10,000)
Wisconsin Arts Board Project Grants: l985/86, 82, 80, 78 ($2,000)
Wisconsin Arts Board Visual Arts Fellowship: l977 ($2,000)
Milwaukee Artists Foundation Project Grants: 1987, 84/85, 83
HISTORY OF GALLERY REPRESENTATION
2017 to the Present: the Alice Wilds, a contemporary art gallery in Milwaukee, Wi. John Sobczak, Director; Tina Schinabeck, Manager.
I was represented by Spectrum Gallery, Rochester, NY from January 6, 2012 through mid-June, 2015, when the gallery closed. A solo exhibition of my work opened there on January 6, 2012 thru February 25, 2012. As of mid-June, 2015 the gallery closed.
Carol Ehlers first represented my work in Chicago from 1978-2001 at the Frumkin Gallery – Chicago, and then later via the Carol Ehlers Gallery. She closed her gallery in 2001.
The Fassbender Stevens Gallery, Chicago represented my work from November 2002 through March 2003, then the gallery closed in 2003.
The Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee represented my work from 1983 through 2005 when the gallery closed.
WEBSITES ( with visual representation )
http://theDepartingLandscape.blogspot.com/
In November, 201o I initiated my photography website TheDepartingLandscape.bolgspot.com an online compilation of my all my photography projects and writings, from the mid 1960's to my most recently completed projects. Since retirement from teaching I have decided to focus my energies entirely to publishing projects on my website rather than exhibiting in galleries.
http://www.unf.edu/~clunberr/Lunberry/Publications.html
At the Clark Lunberry website see Staring Sightlessly which was a collaborative piece that includes 10 of my photos. Also see an essay on the music of Morton Feldman: Departing Landscapes: Morton Feldman’s String Quartet II and Triadic Memories
http://www.cnvill.net/mffostst.htm
Images and texts for the Garage Series Quintets, 2001 from the 2001 exhibition website of the Carol Ehlers Gallery, Chicago. This link is from the Morton Feldman Page
My website is linked to the Morton Feldman Page, Art Links. http://www.cnvill.net/mfalinks.htm
Other Related Links:
Personal History of Photography an illustrated, annotated chronology of my experiences in photography, including titles and dates of selected photography projects completed between 1968 to the present.
Writings: Remembrances
Radio Interview, 2012, with Tish Pearlman, creator of the program "Out of Bounds"
Radio Interview, 2012, with Tish Pearlman, creator of the program "Out of Bounds"
End of resume.
Welcome Page to The Departing Landscape website which includes the complete hyperlinked listing of my online photography projects dating back to the 1960's, my resume, contact information, and more.
