Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture

Adriane Colburn

Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture
Region: San Francisco, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2007

Adriane Colburn is an artist based in San Francisco, CA and New Jersey. Her recent work, large-scale installations that investigate the complex relationships between human infrastructure, earth systems, technology, and the natural world, have been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally at art venues such as Smack Mellon and Parsons/New School in New York, The Luggage Store Gallery and The Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, Artsterium in the Republic of Georgia, and at the Royal Academy of Art in London. Colburn received a bachelor’s of fine arts at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a master’s of fine arts at Stanford University. A penchant for research and direct experience has led her to participate in scientific expeditions in the Arctic and the Amazon, as well as at sea. Colburn has been an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, MacDowell, the Kala Institute, and The Blue Mountain Center. She is currently on the faculty of Bard College.

Studios

Eastman

Adriane Colburn worked in the Eastman studio.

Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…

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