Baker Artist Portfolios

Tiffany Foster is a multidisciplinary visual artist working in painting and photography, whose practice examines memory, perception, and the yet unrevealed narratives that live just beneath the surface of ordinary life. Her work is rooted in moments that are emotionally familiar yet difficult to articulate—childhood warnings, pauses in motion, subtle shifts in atmosphere—where meaning is felt more than declared.

Drawing from photographic observation and personal memory, she captures or constructs scenes that appear initially gentle and accessible, then slowly reveal a deeper emotional charge. Her paintings often depict everyday environments infused with subtle distortion, not as spectacle but as psychological signal. These are not imagined worlds so much as heightened realities—places where something unspoken lingers in the air.

Her background in photography shapes her compositional approach. Framing, depth, and lighting inform her painted work, giving even her most symbolic images a sense of real-world grounding. Photography operates as both reference and parallel practice, reinforcing her interest in capture, pause, and the emotional significance of what is almost missed.

Narrative in her work is intentionally restrained. She is interested in what is implied rather than explained—stories that remain open, suspended between past and present. Viewers are invited not to solve the image, but to recognize something within it: a mood, a memory, a private unease, or a quiet sense of familiarity that cannot be traced to a single source.

At the core of her practice is a belief in emotional accessibility through visual subtlety. Her work does not announce itself loudly, but lingers. Through layered surfaces, softened edges, and carefully tuned color relationships, she creates images that unfold slowly over time.

Through her evolving body of work, Tiffany builds an archive of memory and atmosphere—bridging painting and photography to explore how meaning accumulates in the spaces just beneath what we see.

She graduated from Towson University with an art degree with a concentration in Photographic Imaging. She intends to return to Towson to obtain her Masters in Art History, hoping to enter the museum field. She suffers from Social Anxiety, which reveals itself in much of her work, with quiet observation and an abundance of solitude. She returned to her practice in 2020 and added painting to her skillset, a medium she learned while attending Towson as well.