Half-Life: the time required | Amelia E. Foster and Donna Charging
Left: Amelia E. Foster, Vuk, porcelain, ranunculus, carnations, twine, 18 x 24 x 72 in., 2025
Right: Donna Charging, Article IV, oil and enamel on canvas, 48 × 62 in., 2024
HALF-LIFE: the time required
Amelia E. Foster and Donna Charging
June 6 - June 28, 2025
First Friday Opening Reception Friday, June 6, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
What happens when we lose our Ourselves (the Self, imbued with culture, history and a memory), and what’s left behind? Memory fades, histories can be repressed, cultures lost. The word “half-life” may be defined as the time it takes for half the amount of a given essence to become disintegrated, to undergo a process, or to be eliminated naturally from its substrate. In Half-Life: the time required, Amelia E. Foster and Donna Charging present recent works that embody this concept through time-based ephemeral sculptures and multi-dimensional landscapes that trace shifts of being throughout distant epochs.
Half-Life: the time required lingers in the space between erosion and endurance, where the quiet persistence of the past remains, continually shaping our prospects for a future yet to unfold.
Amelia E. Foster, River, Upside Down, Silver chain, baby’s breath, statice, linen, coffee, 30 x 24 in. 2025
Amelia E. Foster
Amelia E. Foster is an American artist exploring her connection to the land through her Polish heritage. Foster has shown her work across the United States, including at Woman Made Gallery, Tunnel Projects at Miami Art Week, FOCUS Art Fair NYC, Flower Shop Collective (NYC), Dodomu Gallery and the Brooklyn Public Library. She has given talks and led workshops at New York University, Columbia University amongst others. Foster currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Donna Charging
Donna Charging is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara). Her mother is Eastern Shoshone. She has a BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an MFA in Studio Art and Design from the University of Louisville. She has been the recipient of the Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant and the S.S.G. Edwards and A.C. Edwards Fellowship. Donna grew up on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming and lives in Pittsburgh, PA.
