“Speculative Spaces,” Exhibition Opens at Bushel on Saturday, March 28

Above photo: Left- Zachary Cummings, Soft Rock. Right- Andrew Foster, The Kiss (detail).

DELHI — Bushel invites the public to the opening reception of a two-person exhibition by Zachary Cummings and Andrew Foster, on Saturday, March 28, 4 to 7 pm, with artist talks at 5 pm. Bushel is located at 106 Main Street, in Delhi. Refreshments will be available. 

“Speculative Spaces” features paintings by Zachary Cummings and multi-media work by Andrew Foster. Both artists share a commitment to an open-ended exploration of their materials. 

With their sometimes shaped and folded canvases, Zachary Cummings’ paintings function beyond painting’s two primary dimensions. In composition, they are often approached from both the front and back of the canvas, with the marks on the back seeping through the weave to form ghostly mirror images on the surface when viewed from the front. Mutable images formed by these two techniques cast outward from the paintings themselves to incorporate the environment, and the viewer within it.

Through organization and manipulation of light, surface, near-defunct-technologies, and “lame” robotics, Andrew Foster combines objects and materials casually collected from his surroundings or while scrolling through online shopping recommendations, allowing algorithmic suggestions to guide his curiosity and relying on affordable consumer solutions—zip-ties, screws, clamps—to assemble the pieces.

While their mediums and subject matter diverge, Foster and Cummings share an interest in decision making in which outcomes are not predetermined. These gambits create spaces of reflection, enchantment, and dialogue.

Zachary Cummings (b. 1988, Louisiana; lives and works in Delhi, NY) has exhibited his work in Delhi, NY; Brooklyn, NY; Toronto, ON; Mexico City, MX; New York, NY; Rahway, NJ; Lake Charles, LA; New Brunswick, NJ; and Baton Rouge, LA. Cummings received undergraduate degrees in both Studio Art and Physics from Louisiana State University in 2011. He completed his MFA in Visual Art at Rutgers in 2013. He works primarily in painting.

Andrew Foster (b. 1982, Los Angeles, CA; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Neversink, NY) is a multimedia artist whose works incorporate painting, light installation, found object and kinetic sculpture. Foster received a BFA (2004) from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA and an MFA (2020) from Hunter College in NYC, NY. Foster has taught at Otis College of Art and Design and The Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art. He founded and ran The Unofficial School of Art in Los Angeles, CA (2006–2016) where a group of avid hobbyists congregated for over a decade, making some pretty rad landscape and figurative paintings. He has had solo exhibitions at 205 Hudson Street Gallery (NYC) and Hopper House (Venice, CA), Robert Berman Gallery (Santa Monica, CA), Earl McGrath Gallery (West Hollywood, CA) and George Billis Gallery (Los Angeles, CA).

BUSHEL is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit, volunteer-led, mixed-use space dedicated to art, agriculture, ecology, and action. It is located at 106 Main Street in Delhi. For more information, go to www.bushelcollective.org.