Artist Profile

Leland Foster

Leland Foster (b. Portland, Maine, 1990) is an American artist, primarily interested in the concepts of solitude, liminality, nostalgia, and the sublime allure of the natural world.“I’m originally from New England. I moved to New York City in 2015, where I bought my first camera and began focusing on art as a career. In addition to photography, I’m an oil painter and illustrator. My work has been influenced by a variety of different artists, living and dead, including Roger Deakins, Gregory Crewdson, Edward Hopper, N.C. Wyeth, Patrick Joust, Maxfield Parrish, William Blake, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, J.M.W. Turner.A lot of my photography is composed during the quiet hours after the sun has set and before it rises. There is a stillness and an otherworldliness to night photography. Without the familiar highlights and shadows cast by sunlight, a scene loses its grounding in what our minds expect to see; it becomes almost surreal or liminal in nature. Most of my subject material has been focused in New York City, the suburbs of New England, and the Mid Atlantic USA.”