Max Colby
{{Short description|American artist (born 1990)}}
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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. {{Cite web |title=About |url=https://www.maxcolby.com/about |access-date=2022-03-16 |website=Max Colby |language=en-US}} To her, Colby's process is about undoing the conditioning of "inherited cultural understandings of binary gender, as well as class and taste."{{Cite web |title=Multimedia Visual Artist Max Colby Comes to Rockefeller Center |url=https://www.rockefellercenter.com/magazine/arts-culture/art-in-focus-spotlight-max-colby-mixed-media-visual-artist/ |access-date=2022-03-01 |website=www.rockefellercenter.com |language=en}} 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.{{cite web |last1=Yerebakan |first1=Osman Can |title=Highlights from 'With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972-1985' |url=https://interiordesign.net/designwire/highlights-from-with-pleasure-pattern-and-decoration-in-american-art-1972-1985/ |website=Interior Design |access-date=11 June 2022}}
Early life
Colby was born in West Palm Beach, Florida. She studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and received a BFA in 2012.
Exhibitions
= 2011 =
- 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 =
- 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 =
- Crafted, TEMP Gallery, New York, NY
- Prints on Prince, Crossman Gallery, Whitewater, WI
= 2014 =
Vernissage: 100, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
= 2017 =
Stitch: Beyond Function, Henry Zarrow Center for Art and Education, Tulsa, OK
= 2019 =
- 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 =
- Tableau Vivant curated by Anna Cone and Victoria Udondian, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
= 2021 =
- 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 =
- Art in Focus, Rockefeller Center, presented in partnership with Art Production Fund, New York, NY
- Radical Enchantments, Aicon, New York, NY
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Category:21st-century American women artists
Category:American LGBTQ artists
Category:People from West Palm Beach, Florida
Category:School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts alumni