Max Colby (born 1990) is an artist known for her work in textiles, sculpture, installation, embroidery, and painting. Her work highlights precarity and vulnerability through a consistent investigation of ritual objects, most often, funereal. Touching on such ceremonial iconography, the artist constructs objects which subvert the aesthetics of patriarchal systems. [1] To her, Colby's process is about undoing the conditioning of "inherited cultural understandings of binary gender, as well as class and taste."[2] Colby's elaborate work in installation utilizing beads, faux flowers, sequins, ribbons, fabric and jewelry is a flamboyant celebration of self-expression through the artist's meticulous process of utopian construction of a universe.[3]
Early life edit
Colby was born in West Palm Beach, Florida.[2] She studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and received a BFA in 2012.
Exhibitions[1] edit
2011 edit
- Arches Show, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
- Concepts of the Self, MFA Horticulture Library, Boston, MA
- Exchange, Prints from Frans Masereel, SMFA, Boston, MA;
- Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI;
- Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland;
- Antwerp Academy of Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
2012 edit
- New Prints/2012 Summer selected by Shahzia Sikander, IPCNY, New York, NY
- H x W x D x T, Yes.Oui.Si Gallery, Boston, MA
- Slivers, B.A.G. Gallery, SMFA, Boston, MA
- The Artist’s Voice, Resnikoff Gallery, Boston, MA
- Celebrating the Transformative Power of Art, Doric Hall, Massachusetts Statehouse, Boston, MA
- Transatlantic Fun-O-Pack, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland;
- SMFA, Boston, MA
2013 edit
- Crafted, TEMP Gallery, New York, NY
- Prints on Prince, Crossman Gallery, Whitewater, WI
2014 edit
Vernissage: 100, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 edit
Stitch: Beyond Function, Henry Zarrow Center for Art and Education, Tulsa, OK
2019 edit
- Harvest: A Convening of Materiality and Form curated by Sidel & McElwreath, ChaShaMa, New York, NY
- No Trigger Warning curated by Bill Arning, Flatland Gallery, Houston, TX
- Figuring the Floral, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
- A Body of Work curated by Shehab Awad, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, NY
- Rijswijk Textile Biennial, Museum Rijswijk, Rijswijk, Netherlands
- Lobster Dinner curated by Will Hutnick, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
- Soft Grit, LoBo Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020 edit
- Tableau Vivant curated by Anna Cone and Victoria Udondian, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
2021 edit
- Home, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, New York, NY
- Uncommon Ground, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Fringe, Denny Dimin Gallery, New York, NY
- Above & Below, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Cuir curated by Chiachio & Giannone, Isabel Croxatto Galería, Santiago, Chile
- Dissolution, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY
2022 edit
- Art in Focus, Rockefeller Center, presented in partnership with Art Production Fund, New York, NY
- Radical Enchantments, Aicon, New York, NY
References edit
- ^ a b "About". Max Colby. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
- ^ a b "Multimedia Visual Artist Max Colby Comes to Rockefeller Center". www.rockefellercenter.com. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
- ^ Yerebakan, Osman Can. "Highlights from 'With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972-1985'". Interior Design. Retrieved 11 June 2022.