Bio
Foster Boyajian is a Boston-based artist working primarily in large-scale abstract painting. Her work explores the physical and emotional impact of color, scale, and gesture, engaging the viewer through immersive, embodied experience. Rooted in a background in printmaking, her practice emphasizes process, material dialogue, and performative movement. Boyajian’s instinctual, iterative approach allows each work to evolve through layered color, texture, and form, creating dynamic encounters between the painting, the body, and space. She holds an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (2025).
Statement
My practice centers on large scale abstract painting, where the canvas acts as both a confidant and a collaborator in an embodied, iterative process. Color, scale, and proprioception shape perception and emotional response as each work unfolds through instinctive, performative gestures and deliberate material decisions. The paintings emerge as sites of negotiation between control and autonomy, intention and emergence.
I often work on the ground, bringing my body into direct physical dialogue with the canvas. Tending to thin layers of paint, allowing them to settle, and responding to their movement over time. When the work is raised, the painting transforms into an immersive presence, confronting both myself and the viewer. Scale functions as an activating force, inviting heightened awareness of space, movement, and sensory engagement.
Color operates as a living element rather than a fixed visual condition. Through layering, depth, and texture, it generates a shifting field that responds to light, proximity, and individual perception. These relationships are instinctual and relational, opening the work to multiple readings shaped by the viewer’s physical and emotional presence.
My paintings function as active encounters rather than static objects, where body, material, and perception converge. Meaning unfolds through experience, sustaining a continuous dialogue between artist, painting, and viewer.
