Doug Foster (b. 1961, UK)
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“Mesmerizing” is the word most often used to describe Doug Foster’s work. He employs craft skills honed in a previous life as a lighting cameraman to create imagery that aims to affect people at a visceral level. Years of research into the human visual system have informed his use of repeating spatial patterns and subtle temporal rhythms to stimulate primal areas of the brain. His projection installations might appear to be abstract compositions on first sight, but they soon reveal themselves to be constructed with intricately filmed elements from nature.
Selected group shows:
Beyond the Road, The Hyundai, Seoul - 2021
MK Calling, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes - 2020
Beyond the Road, Saatchi Gallery, King's Road, London - 2019
Beyond 2001: New Horizons, London College of Communications, London - 2018
The 14th Factory, 440 North Avenue 19, Los Angeles - 2017
Daydreaming With… UNKLE, Lazarides Rathbone, London - 2017
Daydreaming With... Stanley Kubrick, Somerset House, London - 2016
Still Here - A Decade of Lazarides, Lazarides Rathbone, London - 2016
Peninsula After Dark, NOW Gallery, Greenwich Peninsula, London - 2014
Shangri-La, Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury - 2014
Out Of Our Heads, James Putnam, Shoreditch Town Hall, London - 2014
BRUTAL, Lazarides & The Vinyl Factory, 180 The Strand, London - 2013
In Dreams, The Cob Gallery, London - 2013
PROJECT/ion 2, L&L Arts, The Old Bowery, New York - 2013
Bedlam, Lazarides, The Old Vic Tunnels, London - 2012
Secret Cinema presents Prometheus, (secret location), London - 2012
Daydreaming With... The Hong Kong Edition, Artistree, Hong Kong - 2012
The Minotaur, Lazarides, The Old Vic Tunnels, London - 2011
Daydreaming With... St Michael’s, St Michael’s Church, London - 2011
Hell’s Half Acre, Lazarides, The Old Vic Tunnels, London - 2010
Tunnel 228, Punchdrunk & The Old Vic, The Old Vic Tunnels, London - 2009
Works from the David Roberts Collection, One One One Gallery, London - 2007
Selected solo shows:
No Beginning, No End, Royal Festival Hall, London - 2014
UNKLE Sounds, James Lavelle, (all visuals for international tour) - 2011 & 2012
In the Naughty Chair, Lazarides Rathbone, London - 2011
Only Human, FAS Contemporary, New Bond Street, London - 2008