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  • SECAC Members Juried Exhibition
  • Tony M Bingham // SECAC Fellowship Award
  • Spring 2021 shows
    • MFA Thesis Shows
      • Flowers for the Saints // Amalia Galdona Broche // MFA Thesis Show
      • bad infinity // hannah smith // mfa thesis show
      • Scarcity // Frank Geiser // MFA Thesis Show
      • Self-Soothe // Chelsea Clarke // MFA Thesis Show
      • Tied to the Land // Jonathan Forrence // MFA Thesis Show
    • MFA show 2021
    • The Problem Body // Dimelza Broche
    • 2021 Digital Media Design Capstone: What Lies Here, What Lies Ahead
      • Megan Andrews
      • Ambre Armstrong
      • Mariah Beegle
      • Mya Grace Bevis
      • Dixie Browning
      • Kelsey Clark
      • John-Michael Crawford
      • Maddi Echsner
      • Angelique Embry
      • Karley French
      • Kendra Graham
      • Abby Green
      • Madison Haven
      • Kyle Israel
      • Emily Johnson
      • Cassidy Justice
      • Chevin Kennedy
      • Sammie Kiewel
      • Julia Meyer
      • Jean Carlos Pena-Lozada
      • Ashley Poore
      • Kleine Powell
      • Jordan Pullen
      • Jake Reese
      • Stuart Rice
      • Nora Smith
      • Bryce Stevenson
      • Lily Turner
      • Nicolas Volosky
    • Art Studio Senior Exhibitions
      • exit strategy // group exhibition 2021
      • smudge // Julia Andrus
      • a collective change in circumstances // hope bennett
      • Ties to Tunes // Allyson Cain
      • Identity // Margaret Dostart
        • Margaret Dostart // Sculpture
        • Margaret Dostart // Photography
        • Margaret Dostart // Screen Printing
        • Margaret Dostart // Drawing
        • Margaret Dostart // Painting
      • title to come // grace farish // bfa solo show
      • Things aren't always as they seem // Shelbey Nicole Fox
      • Psuedosovereign // Ellan Luna // bfa show
      • Rose Colored // Madison McGill
      • REASSEMBLY // Abi Peck
      • the others // terence powell
      • on the ground // reagan profit // bfa solo show
      • Sentient // Courtney Smith
      • Cities on Fire So Skate // Al Theiss
      • OH SO DUMB // Mackenzie Walden
      • Perfectly Imperfect// Mark Wynn
      • Foundations Show 2021
      • You Stole My Hat // Jenny Ustick
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Katherine Colborn
www.katherinecolborn.com
Sabbath Travel, oil on shaped panel, red oak ply wooden benches, 60" x 216" x 11.5" (approximately), 2019

This work is meant to be interactive. Viewers are invited to sit on the benches, which in turn places their viewpoint at the side of the painted panels, which are beveled and sit flush against the wall. This motion and arrangement recalls the action of sitting in public transportation, such as planes or buses, but the oak benches also allude to the common seating in houses of worship, such as those in churches or synagogues. This work invites us to grapple with the paradoxical sensations of both pausing and moving simultaneously, and to consider the strange moment between rest and travel as a spiritual space.

Artist Statement​
The Western contemporary culture is one of speed.  It is propelled by competition, drive, and production.  My studio work is fueled by a desire to gently release stillness and slowness in order to alleviate this consistent pressure.  Countering feelings of upheaval and anxiety spurred by late capitalism and global crises, my paintings and installations offer a quiet resistance by encouraging reflections on slowness, transience and domestic life, and by offering literal and figurative space to navigate transition.  My practice is a response to my own desire to fix the unfixable—to pin down the fluid concept of the sacred—and it is also born out of desperation for a quiet reckoning of paradox in a world that propels brashness and oversimplification. 
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Inspired by hermeneutic philosophy and apophatic theology, I find myself swinging between contradictory states of belief, attempting to wrestle the ineffable and inconceivable into language and cognition. I am chasing steadiness in a liminal place that encompasses a simultaneous coming and going. This unnamable experience seems to most often manifest itself in protected spaces, and thus I've been led in my work to themes of threshold and sanctuary.  My paintings (and the installations that serve them) create a respite and an entryway.  They remind us that painting, in its stillness and imaginative capabilities, allows and teaches us to rest where we do not live.
  • Home
  • SECAC Members Juried Exhibition
  • Tony M Bingham // SECAC Fellowship Award
  • Spring 2021 shows
    • MFA Thesis Shows
      • Flowers for the Saints // Amalia Galdona Broche // MFA Thesis Show
      • bad infinity // hannah smith // mfa thesis show
      • Scarcity // Frank Geiser // MFA Thesis Show
      • Self-Soothe // Chelsea Clarke // MFA Thesis Show
      • Tied to the Land // Jonathan Forrence // MFA Thesis Show
    • MFA show 2021
    • The Problem Body // Dimelza Broche
    • 2021 Digital Media Design Capstone: What Lies Here, What Lies Ahead
      • Megan Andrews
      • Ambre Armstrong
      • Mariah Beegle
      • Mya Grace Bevis
      • Dixie Browning
      • Kelsey Clark
      • John-Michael Crawford
      • Maddi Echsner
      • Angelique Embry
      • Karley French
      • Kendra Graham
      • Abby Green
      • Madison Haven
      • Kyle Israel
      • Emily Johnson
      • Cassidy Justice
      • Chevin Kennedy
      • Sammie Kiewel
      • Julia Meyer
      • Jean Carlos Pena-Lozada
      • Ashley Poore
      • Kleine Powell
      • Jordan Pullen
      • Jake Reese
      • Stuart Rice
      • Nora Smith
      • Bryce Stevenson
      • Lily Turner
      • Nicolas Volosky
    • Art Studio Senior Exhibitions
      • exit strategy // group exhibition 2021
      • smudge // Julia Andrus
      • a collective change in circumstances // hope bennett
      • Ties to Tunes // Allyson Cain
      • Identity // Margaret Dostart
        • Margaret Dostart // Sculpture
        • Margaret Dostart // Photography
        • Margaret Dostart // Screen Printing
        • Margaret Dostart // Drawing
        • Margaret Dostart // Painting
      • title to come // grace farish // bfa solo show
      • Things aren't always as they seem // Shelbey Nicole Fox
      • Psuedosovereign // Ellan Luna // bfa show
      • Rose Colored // Madison McGill
      • REASSEMBLY // Abi Peck
      • the others // terence powell
      • on the ground // reagan profit // bfa solo show
      • Sentient // Courtney Smith
      • Cities on Fire So Skate // Al Theiss
      • OH SO DUMB // Mackenzie Walden
      • Perfectly Imperfect// Mark Wynn
      • Foundations Show 2021
      • You Stole My Hat // Jenny Ustick
      • Archive of Past Shows
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