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Kasmin presents the first New York solo exhibition of London-based painter Helena Foster (b. 1988, Benin City, Nigeria), on view at 297 Tenth Avenue from April 3, 2025 through May 3, 2025. Helena Foster: Time Honoured features new oil paintings on linen, paper, and vellum that express Foster’s lyrical approach to painting as an accumulation of cultural and generational wisdom. Foster draws freely from literature, theater, film, Igbo oral tradition, and religion, achieving a dreamlike aura of mystery in dynamic compositions ambiguously set between thick vegetation and the built environment. Often populated by figures, whether isolated in anticipation of a gathering or in groups who huddle, recline, and walk in procession, these scenes cohere into a visual universe distinguished by its earthen palette and deft rendering of light. Exploring themes of community, memory, and prophecy, Foster’s paintings offer visual proverbs for the contemporary age.
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Kasmin presents the first New York solo exhibition of London-based painter Helena Foster (b. 1988, Benin City, Nigeria), on view at 297 Tenth Avenue from April 3, 2025 through May 3, 2025. Helena Foster: Time Honoured features new oil paintings on linen, paper, and vellum that express Foster’s lyrical approach to painting as an accumulation of cultural and generational wisdom. Foster draws freely from literature, theater, film, Igbo oral tradition, and religion, achieving a dreamlike aura of mystery in dynamic compositions ambiguously set between thick vegetation and the built environment. Often populated by figures, whether isolated in anticipation of a gathering or in groups who huddle, recline, and walk in procession, these scenes cohere into a visual universe distinguished by its earthen palette and deft rendering of light. Exploring themes of community, memory, and prophecy, Foster’s paintings offer visual proverbs for the contemporary age.
