Fries
Michael Guerra Foerster

Opening Reception Friday January 10, 2025 6 – 9PM
On view Saturdays, 1 – 5PM
January 10 – February 8, 2025

Fries is a frantic, desperate, and autobiographical stream of consciousness that wrestles with identity and self actualization within the context of the human condition and generalized personal experiences. This interactive ceramic exhibition critically engages various concepts that have impacted the artist and shaped the ways in which he interacts with and understands the world, including separation anxiety and grief, feelings of insignificance, complex consumeristic desires to possess and collect, platonic love, and the coping mechanisms the artist has used since a very early age to combat loneliness. Central to this exhibition however, is a frank and emotional analysis of masculinity and generational trauma, focusing on relationships with patriarchs and other powerful men, and the abundance of toxic male role models that have infested the artists’ life from upbringing and adulthood. 

This exhibition features vibrantly colorful ceramic manifestations that employ fantastical, absurd, and bizarre imagery and interactive elements to explore these relationships and big feelings, and within that space the artist both condemns and celebrates, experiments and learns. Through this work, Foerster strives not only to better understand himself, but to provoke and engage the audience, building connections and community with and among them through the sharing of experiences.

Michael Guerra Foerster is an artist living and working in San Antonio, Texas. Michael received a BFA with a concentration in ceramics from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2018, has studied at Haystack, Penland and Arrowmont Schools of Craft, participated in residencies at Brick Gallery and Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, and exhibited nationally, including creating temporary and permanent public art pieces in San Antonio. Michael is also currently a visual arts instructor at SAY Sí (San Antonio Youth Yes) where he teaches middle and high school-age artists, who in turn regularly inspire his work. The curriculum he co-creates focuses on creating elevated and original artwork, while also promoting social justice and community centered action.

Website: michaelfoersterart.com

Instagram: @michael_foerster_art

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