Bio + Statement

Biography

Samantha Foster is a Chicago based interdisciplinary artist with a foundation in printmaking, pen plotter drawings, and performance. Foster received a BBA in Management from Loyola University New Orleans, completed advanced printmaking courses while an employee at Tulane University, and recently graduated with her MFA in Fine Arts at Columbia College Chicago in Spring 2022. She is the recipient of the 2021 Aiko Nakane fellowship and the 2022 Albert P. Weisman award.

Statement

My interdisciplinary practice interrogates the fraught dynamics of human relationships and communication with digital technology. I use my education in business and art to uncover and visualize the nuanced layers of society’s contemporary relationship with the internet and its pervasive, for-profit culture. The tension and blurring between tangible and virtual worlds has created systemic problems whose negative implications have started to surface in the past decade. With printmaking as my foundation, I analyze my research and experiments to develop conceptual work that ranges from pen plotter drawings to absurdist performances that exposes and questions this love affair with the digital sphere.