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Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2025

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Each year, the Colby Museum presents an exhibition dedicated to Colby College students who have spent four years working toward capstone projects in studio art. These artists have focused on disciplines including painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and, for the first time this year, digital media. On view from the end of the spring semester until Commencement, this show celebrates the culmination of the graduating seniors’ artistic practices at Colby. An exhibition catalogue containing images, artists’ statements, and essays on works in the show written by students in AR356 Contemporary Art Criticism will accompany the installation.

This year’s exhibiting artists are Emily Alford, Michelle Bechtel, Drew Bennett, Jana Berry, Jamie Fiedorek, Isabel Grimes, Seung Yeon Hong, Zoey LaTour, Elizabeth Mackle, Fiona Mejico, Aaron Rivera, Eric Seaman, Keon Smart, Hannah Soria, Anna Staton, Grace Yang, and Jenifer Zanabriga.

Join us for the opening celebration from 5–7 p.m. on Thursday, May 8, at the Hub, Paul J. Schupf Art Center.

Selected Works

Anna Staton

Intricate geometric pattern on a marble surface with leaf-like shapes and faint gray veining.

Eric Seamen

Digital drawing of a view from below of an elaborate cathedral.

Grace Yang

Detail of women wearing traditional dress printed onto think translucent cloth.

Elizabeth Mackle

Digital image of a young child seated and wearing a sunhat layered beneath text.

Jenifer Zanabriga

Realistic oil on canvas and board panting of a left hand gently holding a flower between thumb and forefingers.

Michelle Bechtel

Oil on wood painting of a red, fleshy detail.

Jamie Fiedorek

Photographic portrait of a Sea Dogs baseball player wearing his mitt. His sunglasses are on top of his baseball cap.

Hannah Soria

25 screenprints arranged in a 5 by 5 grid. Each print is a layered photographic double-exposure of landscapes that becomes abstract. Each row is a combination of two different hues, from light red over rose, blue layered over red, and so on.

Aaron Rivera

A painting portrait of a young man with a thin mustache and a chin-only goatee with his eyes closed facing the light.

Drew Bennett

A black and white photograph of a group of young college women at a party dancing and singing.

Isabel Grimes

Abstract white lines on a green background forming spirals and loops.

Fiona Mejico

A wooden sculptural object that has been turned, stained, and shellacked.

Zoey LaTour

An etching of a young man holding a baby in a high-backed chair with a black and white floral pattern. A bird is perched on the back of the chair.

Seung Yeon Hong

A light sculpture constructed with wood and translucent textured paper.

Emily Alford

Stylized black and white pagoda buildings with a swirling red and yellow background.

Jana Berry

A person with crossed-out eyes holds a yellow mask labeled "escape" in front of a purple background with swirling lines.

Keon Smart

Installation Views

  • Vinyl lettering on glass window spelling Colby College Senior Art Exhibitions 2025
  • Title wall at art exhibition wall with list of seventeen artist names
  • Corner gallery wall with nine paintings, including faces in emotional poses, and larger works on the adjacent wall
  • Two framed black-and-white prints on a gallery wall, each depicting a figure with birds
  • Gallery view with small paintings, a monitor displaying video, and a grid of color-shifted portraits
  • Four small paintings on a gallery wall, including close-ups of hands holding objects and a stylized red toy on fabric
  • Gallery corner with black-and-white portraits, abstract prints, and a tall stacked sculpture on a pedestal
  • Close-up of a tall black and brown sculpture with hollowed sections
  • Gallery entrance with a blurred sculpture in the foreground
  • Gallery wall with framed handwritten texts, portraits of women and children, an abstract red painting, and a grid print
  • Gallery view with a blue and orange geometric sculpture in the foreground, and video, textile, and ceramic works in the background
  • Corner-mounted wood frame filled with colorful textured tiles arranged in diagonal patterns of red, blue, orange, and white
  • Gallery view with framed prints, a colorful geometric sculpture, abstract wall drawings, and a tall wood-framed screen
  • Close-up of carved white tiles with geometric and curved patterns mounted in a horizontal row
  • Angled view of a gallery corridor with framed prints, and a translucent screen in a wooden frame
  • Side view of a wood- framed translucent screen and lantern sculpture
  • Gallery view with a video screen showing a landscape, portraits and abstract works on the far wall, and a colorful grid print in the foreground
  • Gallery view with a grid print, exhibition title wall listing seventeen artist names, video screen, and geometric sculpture on pedestal
  • Exhibition title wall listing seventeen artist names, with nearby digital video, black-and-white photographs, and a geometric sculpture on pedestal
  • Title wall at exhibition wall with list of seventeen artist names

Installation view of Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2025, the Colby Museum’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, Waterville, Maine, 2025. Photo: Sae Gleba

Installation view of Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2025, the Colby Museum’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, Waterville, Maine, 2025. Photo: Sae Gleba

Installation view of Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2025, the Colby Museum’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, Waterville, Maine, 2025. Photo: Sae Gleba

Installation view of Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2025, the Colby Museum’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, Waterville, Maine, 2025. Photo: Sae Gleba

Installation view of Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2025, the Colby Museum’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, Waterville, Maine, 2025. Photo: Sae Gleba

Installation view of Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2025, the Colby Museum’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, Waterville, Maine, 2025. Photo: Sae Gleba

Installation view of Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2025, the Colby Museum’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, Waterville, Maine, 2025. Photo: Sae Gleba

Installation view of Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2025, the Colby Museum’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, Waterville, Maine, 2025. Photo: Sae Gleba

Installation view of Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2025, the Colby Museum’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, Waterville, Maine, 2025. Photo: Sae Gleba

Installation view of Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2025, the Colby Museum’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, Waterville, Maine, 2025. Photo: Sae Gleba

Installation view of Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2025, the Colby Museum’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, Waterville, Maine, 2025. Photo: Sae Gleba

Installation view of Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2025, the Colby Museum’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, Waterville, Maine, 2025. Photo: Sae Gleba

Installation view of Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2025, the Colby Museum’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, Waterville, Maine, 2025. Photo: Sae Gleba

Installation view of Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2025, the Colby Museum’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, Waterville, Maine, 2025. Photo: Sae Gleba

Installation view of Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2025, the Colby Museum’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, Waterville, Maine, 2025. Photo: Sae Gleba

Installation view of Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2025, the Colby Museum’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, Waterville, Maine, 2025. Photo: Sae Gleba

Installation view of Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2025, the Colby Museum’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, Waterville, Maine, 2025. Photo: Sae Gleba

Installation view of Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2025, the Colby Museum’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, Waterville, Maine, 2025. Photo: Sae Gleba

Installation view of Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2025, the Colby Museum’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, Waterville, Maine, 2025. Photo: Sae Gleba

Installation view of Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2025, the Colby Museum’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, Waterville, Maine, 2025. Photo: Sae Gleba