Iris Fossier is an artist based in Fontainebleu, France who renders life-size drawings of playful fantasies inspired by the forested landscape that surrounds her studio. Drawing, for Fossier, is a moment of complete immersion and her color spectrum focuses primarily on the gray-scale. Recently the artist started to incorporate different types of yellow, for added depth and illusion. She continues to build up the pictorial space even further by adding pigment-soaked paper randomly throughout the surface.

Bing! Bing! is a new series of drawings, set upon stretched canvas, that capture the artist’s alter-ego, who is seen either battling larger than life creatures or carrying a goldenhorse through the waves of a gray sea. Narrative is obscured by the empty, smoky background, which enhances the illusion of three-dimensional space. However, these large-scale drawings arrest the viewer and take one inside an array of mysterious but combustive, action-packed moments, which also include the likeness of Buster Keaton and a 19th-century French soldier.

From 2007 to 2009 Iris Fossier was a fellow at the Casa de Velàzquez and since then has had five solo shows. In 2010 Fossier’s first solo show took place at Premier Regard in Paris, France, followed by another at Galerie Prodromus. Earlier this year the artist debuted a series of new drawings that appeared in the children’s book Fanfan, with text written by Marie Sellier. The artist and author are currently at work on Bianca, the second book from their collaboration. Iris Fossier will have two more solo shows at Galerie Michèle Broutta and Galerie Prodromus both located in Paris. In 2015 the artist’s large-scale collages were exhibited in the Chapel Delacroix at the Church of Saint-Denys-du-Saint-Sacrement from February 18th to March 29th.