SPECULATIVE SPACES: Zachary Cummings + Andrew Foster
March 28 – May 17, 2026
Opening Reception (with talks by the artists)
Saturday, March 28, 4-7pm
On view during Open Hours, Bushel programs, by chance, and by appointment
(for appointments, email info@bushelcollective.org)
Bushel is delighted to welcome a two-person alumni exhibition with Zachary Cummings (previous Bushel shows: Volumes and On the Verge) and Andrew Foster, two artists who share a commitment to an open-ended exploration of their materials.
Through organization and manipulation of light, surface, near-defunct-technologies and “lame” robotics, 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.
With their sometimes shaped and folded canvases, Cummings’s 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.
While their media 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.
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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).
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Images:
(left) Zachary Cummings, Soft Rock, 2026, 24 x 18 inches, oil on canvas.
(right) Andrew Foster, The Kiss (detail), 2019–ongoing, dimensions variable, electronics and led lights, found objects and clamps, worm gear motor, iPhone and charger, dichroic film, TPU film, plexi glass oil paint, wax, alien tape, duct tape, copper tacks.