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What gives Fosters art it’s unique power is it’s willingness to stick with
issues of the future of the body, rather than
escaping into beautiful dreams of the soul set free amid empyrean realms of light. Such premature flights
into heaven
are what give so much would-be spiritual are an inauthentic quality. But Foster, happily, resists these
treacly
visualizations. Her spirit springs always from struggling flesh, and are all the stronger for it.
Jerry Cullum
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The triumph Foster registers through her rendering of the female euphoria is a triumph
over tragedy of women, as
respected by Kahlo, Kollwitz, Mendieta and Duras. Talented but misunderstood and isolated, struggling
for autonomy
yet bound by societal code, she is doomed from the beginning, a victim of inner conflict. But Fosters
Dionysian woman,
her instincts fully gratified, has escaped doom- rises above all conflict, including conflict with man-
by becoming
sublime.
Donald Kuspit
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