Lynn Charles Foster

American B.1949 N.Y.

Masters W.O.U. 1979

Selected Shows: (from 250+)

Painting, Drawing, Sculpture and Mail Art.

National Shows:

S.O.S Christensen Heller Gallery, Oakland CA. (A juried

show of art from recycled materials.) Best of Show

Mid-America Biennial National Art Exhibition Owensboro,

Kentucky, Juror: Abram Lerner, Director of Hirshhorn

Museum, Washington, D.C.

Paper in Particular National,Columbia College,

Columbia, MO, Juror:Selina Trieff.

Las Vegas National Art Show. Las Vegas Art Museum,

Las Vegas, NV, Juror:L. Sido

Nuclear Visions Traveling Show (Sponsored by the University

of Oregon Art Museum). US and Canada for 2 years.

"Me, Myself and..." Museum of Arts Downtown Los Angeles,

Los Angeles, CA

18th Annual Northwest International Art Competition, Whatcom

Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA Jurors: Linda Connor and

Robbie Conal

Found Object As Art, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA, Juror:

George Herms

Countdown 2000, Gallery 1078, Chico,CA Juror: Catharine Clark

N.W. Juried Art '83, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA.

Juror: Henry Hopkins, Director of the San Francisco

Museum of Modern Art.

30th Annual Exhibition: Painting, Richmond Art Center,

Richmond, CA. Juror: Roy DeForest.

Big Sky Biennial, Idaho State U., Pocatello,

ID, Juror: Graham Collier, (one drawing and a sculpture).

33rd Spokane Annual, Cheney Cowles Museum,

Spokane, WA.,Juror: James Hazeltine.

Solo Shows:

“Plastic World: Recent Found Plastic Assemblages”, Linfield Fine Arts Gallery, Linfield College,

McMinnville, OR.

Western Oregon University, Hamersley Library Galleries,

Monmouth, Or. Curated by John Olbrantz Director of the Hallie Ford

Linn-Benton Community College, Albany, OR

Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, OR.

Buckley Center Gallery, U. of Portland,OR.

North View Gallery, Portland Community College, OR

Western Oregon State College, Monmouth, OR.

Hallie Ford Brown Gallery, Willamette U, Salem, OR.

Courtyard Gallery, Portland, OR

Group Shows:

“Recycled Art”, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR.

Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR.

" Big Kids Toy Box", Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, CA

Annual Pacific N.W. Arts and Crafts Juried Show, Bellevue,

Wa.(award in sculpture) Juror: Donald Brewer, Director,

University Gallery, U.C.L.A.

Passion Seven Group Show, Humboldt Arts Council Carnegie

Gallery Eureka, CA

7 Painters New Members, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Or.

Published:

“Recycle, Reduce, Reuse” by Kate Walker, MacMillan Education Austraila, 2004.

“Trash is Dash”, by Alice Leonhardt, Stecker-Vaughn Publishers, 2002, pp. 27-28.

“Art from Plastic Trash”, The Cousteau Society, Dolphin Log Magazine, March

2000 pp.6-7.

Collections:

The Getty Art Museum :Reasearch Institute for the History of Art and

Humanities: Bern Porter Mail Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA

University of Iowa Libraries, “Alternative Traditions in the Contemporary Arts; Artist’s Works

and Correspondence Files.” Iowa City, Iowa

United Companies Lending, Baton Rouge, Louisianna

Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR (Two works)

Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, OR

Western Oregon State College, Monmouth,OR

Mark Hatfield Library, Willamette U., Salem, OR

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