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Current Exhibitions

  • Mαwte: Bound Together

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    An intricately and colorfully beaded artwork depicting a river and river bed with trees.
  • Is anything the matter? Drawings by Laylah Ali

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    In a black and white drawing by Laylah Ali, A stylized portrait features a figure adorned with intricate black and white patterns.
  • Some American Stories

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    Decorative vessel with a textured, spiky surface and blue accents on a dark background.
  • Alex Katz: Repetitions

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    A painting by Alex Katz of a dense forest with tall brown tree trunks and intersecting branches.

Upcoming Exhibitions

  • Global Crossings: Selections from the Lunder Collection

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    A hazy, luminous oil painting of Venice at sunset. Pale yellow light from a central sun reflects on the water, illuminating a cluster of sailboats with colorful sails. The city skyline and the dome of Santa Maria della Salute are visible as misty silhouettes in the background. Two figures sit on a small stone pier in the lower right foreground.
  • Everyday Devotions: Gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation and Beyond

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    An abstract painting featuring a background wash of soft purples and greys. Various shapes are layered on top, including a cluster of pink, red, and purple watercolor-like shapes in the upper right. A dominant orange shape is centered within a large black irregular circle. Splatters of black and white paint, thin dark lines resembling branches, and smaller turquoise, white, and purple shapes are distributed across the composition.
  • Quick Things Passing: The Alex Katz Collection

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    A vertical composition featuring a light-grey and white tree trunk positioned slightly off-center. The trunk is surrounded by a lush canopy of vibrant green leaves, rendered in flat, rhythmic dabs of light and dark green paint. The perspective looks slightly upward into the bright foliage.
  • Alex Katz | Out of Sight: A Drawing Survey

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    An abstract ink wash painting in reddish-orange on white paper, featuring thick, vertical strokes and gestural blotches that suggest a dense thicket of trees.
  • Imagining an Archipelago: Art from Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Their Diasporas

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    A vertical portrait of a person whose face and neck are covered in white pigment. Their head and face are tightly bound in a grid-like "trap" or cage made of pink and black braided fabric. The subject looks directly at the camera with a neutral expression against a plain white background.

Traveling Exhibitions

  • Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery

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    A surreal painting of two ladders in a dark landscape, one reaching a crescent moon and the other a pink cloud.
  • Alex Katz: Theater and Dance

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    Painting of two identical figures wearing pink jumpsuits with one red and one green arm. They hold their arms arched and above their heads, leaning towards eachother.

Past Exhibitions

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  • Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery

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    A surreal painting of two ladders in a dark landscape, one reaching a crescent moon and the other a pink cloud.
  • Love Your Langlais: A Community Curates

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    A carved, stained, painted, and blackened wood sculpture of a lion's face and mane with wire whiskers.
  • 2025 Faculty Biennial

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  • Stan Douglas | Hors-champs

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    Dark gallery space with a projected black-and-white image showing two men in conversation, one seated and the other leaning in
  • Radical Histories: Chicanx Prints from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

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    A person with butterfly wings featuring words like "MIGRANTE" and "QUEERNESS" stands against a yellow background.
  • Into the Wind: American Weathervanes

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    A weathervane in the shape of a black stallion.
  • Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2025

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    A banner of multiple images of artwork in the 2025 Senior Art Exhibition.
  • Square + Triangle: Home in the Colby Museum’s Collection

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    A ceramic object that depicts a folded plate with a cityscape adorned nine houses.