Thesis Excerpt: Human as Nature, Landscape as Memory
by colleen | May 15, 2025 | Writings | 0 Comments
Included below are several sections from my Thesis writing for my MFA at UT Austin: Artist Inspiration When I was little, my mother was an art conservator at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, TX, where her conservation lab worked on Frederic Church’s Icebergs in...
Thesis Excerpt (pt. 2): Human as Nature, Landscape as Memory
by colleen | May 13, 2025 | Writings | 0 Comments
My Own Immram My inspiration for my current investigation in my work began in 2019 when I traveled from my Brooklyn studio to a two-week residency at Cill Rialaig Artist Retreat in County Kerry, Ireland. Staying in a pre-famine cottage on a cliff overlooking the...
Thesis Excerpt (pt. 3): Human as Nature, Landscape as Memory
by colleen | May 12, 2025 | Writings | 0 Comments
Observations on the Trail British geographer, Denis Cosgrove defines landscape as the “external world mediated through human subjective experience.” I’d define a place that way. A lived-in landscape becomes a place, which implies intimacy; a once-lived in landscape...
“The Future Is Behind Us,” By Rachel Wolfson Smith
by colleen | November 3, 2022 | Writings | 0 Comments
Above: "Caregivers,” graphite on paper, 44 x 90 inches, 2021 "The Future Is Behind Us," By Rachel Wolfson Smith at Women and Their Work, Austin, TX, Sat Aug 13, 2022 - Thu Sep 29, 2022 Taking a walk in nature, my conscious mind is limited in understanding the...
Nancy Elsamanoudi:
by colleen | May 20, 2020 | Writings | 0 Comments
Nancy Elsamanoudi: The Wonderful World of Vivacious Vixens and Dick Flowers By Colleen Blackard Nancy’s female subjects are anything but expected. Not the demure girls that were so idolized by male painters in Western art history, rather they are powerful heroines, at...