By Ryan Foster
Sunset (Smiling Landscape)
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Ryan Foster graduated in 2011 from the University of South Florida with a focus in painting and printmaking. He currently teaches 2D Design and Color Theory at The University of Montevallo just outside of Birmingham, Ala. “Recently I have been interested in the grittiness of the land — weeds, rocks, animals, etc. — and where these elements meet the immaterial or spiritual side of things. So I interrupt the horizon with a veil. This not only gets rid of distant perspective issues, but provokes the comparison between the seen and the unseen. Using a stand-in for the sky piece elicits the question: what is behind the curtain?”