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 and ongoing exploration of printmaking, her practice emphasizes process, material dialogue, and the way layers interact and build. Boyajian's 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 a BFA from Lesley University College of Art and Design and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts University (2025).

Artist Statement

My practice is an Ouroboros of iterative making, where each painting feeds into the next through an embodied, instinctive process. The canvas acts as confidant and collaborator, shaped by color, scale, and proprioception, the way the body feels in space.

I work on the ground, layering paint in an intuitive process rooted in printmaking. Some layers come through deliberate application, others through setting up conditions and letting the paint move, settle, and collaborate on its own terms. Once raised, the painting becomes an immersive presence, its scale pulling the viewer in or pushing them out, confronting both myself and the viewer.

Color operates as a living element rather than a fixed visual condition. Through layering and application, it builds a shifting field that responds to light, proximity, and the viewer's presence, opening the work to multiple readings.