March 7 - May 2, 2025

opening reception Friday, March 7 (5-8pm)

”History, pop culture, urban folklore, and improvisation drive my work as an image maker. I’m interested in how this source material translates to shape, text, and color that coalesce into meaning within abstract fields. In recent paintings, I blend formal abstraction with poorly rendered figures that recall my primary school days - an intentionally naive and self-taught drawing approach that allows my subject matter to more fluidly inhabit both real and imagined worlds.”

April 4 - May 16, 2025

opening reception: Friday, April 4 (6-8pm)

Colvin has developed a practice of painting that is both challenging and seductive, using a hybrid of figurative and abstract approaches to create delicate, fantastic, and concrete spaces - the immediate and intimate nature of drawing infusing his paintings with an hypnotic mix of familiarity and mystery. The artist’s recent work continues what critic Cinque Hicks described in Art in America as his “naked search for new answers to old questions.” (…)