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Colleen Collett

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Artist Statement

My current body of work is inspired by nature. Through the process of building the pieces, multiple small elements are created to make a larger whole, as reflected in many forms in nature. Clotted lines crisscross, cover, hide, and create unknown areas in my work. The forms can seem like nets, capturing the viewer and blocking or hindering the passage of the gaze but allowing them to see through smaller areas, to what lies on the other side. Just like each event in a person’s life changes them, each mark or shape changes and in doing so alters and forms the larger shape.
Nature has been connected with the feminine. Women have for generations been accountable for feeding, cleaning, mating and caring for the young and old. Using nature-based forms my work is starting to investigate these roles of what is natural for women.
Organic patterns in my work refer to those that can be found in flowers. I use curving, soft and feminine lines to indicate these patterns that give birth to a multitude of sizes of overall forms, from the almost life-like size of the smaller forms to the large scale hanging pieces. The patterns create new organic forms, referring to the image a person might want to show of him or herself. It is only when one gets up close and takes the time to look that one can tell there is more going on in the work, more going on in most people’s lives than is revealed on the surface.

Born: Yorba Linda, California 1980

Currently lives and works in Long Beach, California

Education

2007- 2009 San Francisco Art Institute, CA, MFA/ Painting

2006- 2007 San Francisco Art Institute, CA, Post Baccalaureate

2005 August- November Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art, Pont Aven, France

2001-2004 Chapman University, Orange, CA, BFA Studio Arts/ Painting

2001-2004 Chapman University, Orange, CA, BA Art History

1998-2001 Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA, AA/ Art

Awards/ Honors

2006-2009 San Francisco Art Institute Graduate Grant

2004 Departmental Honors from Chapman University

2001-2004 Talent Scholarship, Chapman University

2001- 2004 Academic Scholarship, Chapman University

2003 First Place in student show, Chapman University

Exhibitions

2011 “Lux: Variations on a White Theme,” SCAPE, Corona Del Mar, CA.

2011 “Seeking Someone Possibly You” Timezone gallery, San Francisco, CA.

2009 “Driven to Abstraction,” Coastline Community College Art Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA.

2009 “Vernissage: MFA Graduate Exhibition,” Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA.

2009 “Feminism Is For Everyone,” Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institue, CA.

2008 “Drawing Show,” Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institue, CA.

2008 “Colleen Collett,” Union St. Starbucks, San Francisco, CA.

2008 “Composing Biology,” Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institue, CA.

2007 “4 in 1,” Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institue, CA.

2007 “Post Baccalaureate Show” Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institue, CA.

2005 “d’ici et d’alleurs,” CIAC Gallery, Pont Aven, France

2003 “Addendum,” Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, CA.

2003 “Student Art Show,” Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, CA.

2002 “Student Art Show,” Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, CA.

Publications

Davies, Stacy. “White’s Power: SCAPE Gallery’s new show offers a host of themes on the emblematic, enigmatic sometimes-color.” OC WEEKLY, Thursday, May 26, 2011

Zevitas, Steven T. ed, Studio Visit: Volume Nine, 2010, Open Studio Press, p 32

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