Cori Forster [RA 2023]

First name: Cori ;
Middle name:  ;
Last name: Forster ;

Member: Resident Artist member ; 
Begin: 2023 ;
End: n/a ;

Biography:

New York City born, Cori Forster knew at an early age that she wanted to pursue a career in the arts. She began her journey as an undergraduate student at Queens College, majoring in Fine Art. She then transferred to the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she majored in Fashion Illustration, to complete her degree.

In the 1980’s, Cori Forster earned her living as a freelance artist. She worked in various design houses and companies including Kelloggs’s Cereal, Jean St. Germain, El Greco’s Candies’s Shoes, Ann Rothchild & Co., as well as illustrated for many clothing catalogs. While pursuing her art career, Cori returned to Queens College and completed her Bachelor of Arts in Education with a minor in art, then preceded to earn a Master of Science in Education.

Being married and raising three children naturally compromised the amount of time Cori had to dedicate to her art. After a decade of teaching in the N.Y.C. public system,  Cori felt an unavoidable void which she could no longer ignore. Consequently, when she and her family moved to Long Island, Cori decided to find her way back to her true love: art.

Cori now devotes her time to painting landscapes, nature, still life and portraiture.  She mainly paints in oils and focuses on traditional representational techniques. Cori has studied painting at the Art League of Long Island, Teaching Studios of Art, The Art Guild, Long Island Fine Arts Academy, and attends many webinars and workshops year round. Her paintings have been exhibited at the Salmagundi Club, Art League of Long Island, Trapani Art, Art Guild of Port Washington, Huntington Arts Council, Mills Pond Gallery and featured in Newsday, The Garden City News and The Northport Observer.  In May of 2019, Cori Forster had her first solo exhibition at Yasha Gallery in Greenpoint Brooklyn.  Cori Forster is now exhibiting her work in the “Firefly Artists Gallery” in Northport, New York, and “Barns Gallery” In Garden City, New York. Most recently, two of Cori’s paintings has been juried into the the 42nd Annual Painting, Sculpture and Graphics Exhibition at the historic Salmagundi Club, NYC.