Foundation Gallery was established to give exposure to art marking within social environments that are often overlooked by the mainstream art community. Foundation appreciates and is inspired by artists emerging from street culture: skateboarding, graffiti, punk rock, hip-hop and other DIY cultures. Together, Elizabeth Cline and Michael Coleman created Foundation as a venue in Chicago to support local, national and international artists from underground and independent subcultures.

In 2006, Foundation uprooted from it's Chicago home and relocated to Los Angeles, forming Foundation Projects. As curatorial project, Foundation Projects stays true to the mission of the original gallery but no longer is constrained to exhibiting artists and projects within the parameters and limitations of a traditional gallery space.

Foundation Projects will continue to represent a collection of artists and develop exhibition programs that will be hosted in cities nationally and internationally.

FOUNDATIONGALLERY
2003
Seatbelt For My Head
Silkscreen Monoprints by Jay Ryan

Snapcult: 10 Years in Cook County
Photographs by Calbee Booth + Nicole Radja

2004
S&M
New Work by Sayre Gomez and Matthew Rodriguez

Nick Butcher + Anne Kolhagen
New paintings

Riding a Coattail To Heaven
New work by Serigraphie Populaire

Total Gym in The Primal Secrets
A multimedia installation project

Syndrome vs. Foundation
A collaborative exhibition of graphic design + fashion with Syndrome.
Featuring works by Struggle Inc, Kelly Breslin, Justin Fines, Ray Nolan

Will Travel
Paintings by Russ Pope

License To Live
Paintings, drawings and prints by Dan Grzeca

Drawing To An End
Group Drawing exhibition featuring 12 gallery artists


2005
Punch In The Face
Works related to excessive violence by Richard Colman, Sayre Gomez
and Mark Price

Ascenders/Descenders
An exhibition based on typographic works

ENORM-O-PRINTS
Prints by Aesthetic Apparatus

Die Kase Hause
Artist Collective Project

YOU ARE / I AM
You Are Beautiful project presented an exhibition of the returned YOU ARE / I AM books and postcards sent to artitists, collectives and galleries internationally. The books and postcards asked participants to respond to the statement: You Are / I Am

FOUNDATIONPROJECTS
2006
100 Posters, 134 Squirrels
Silkscreen prints + Monorpints by Jay Ryan in conjunction with the release of his first artists monograph
100 Posters, 134 Squirrels

True+True=Forever
Works by Russ Pope and Tim Kerr
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MONO-POLY
Collaborative monoprints by The Art Dump
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