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Playscape: Contemporary Art from the Colby Museum’s Collection

A painting of a baseball game with a very flattened perspectival treatment.

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2023 Faculty Biennial

A still from Takahiro Suzuki's Super8 Film transferred to video titled electric moonlight.

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Bill Morrison: Cycles & Loops

A still from Blue Dancers (detail), a 2K video by Bill Morrison. Original source material unknown. 35mm film, black and white, 19 sec. (loop). Sourced from the Library of Congress. Courtesy of the artist.

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Come Closer: Selections from the Collection, 1978–1994

A black and white photographic self-portrait by David Wojnarowicz with his face buried in the dirt, 1991/2018.

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Constellations: Forming the Collection, 1973–2023

A green monochrome oil on canvas portrait of two women outside, one sitting on a bench and one standing near her, by Thomas Wilmer Dewing, 1891.

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Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change

A street scene etching and drypoint in dark brown ink of a Fish Shop in Chelsea by James McNeill Whistler, 1886.

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2023 Senior Exhibition

A checkerboard layout design featuring different pieces by the graduating 2023 Seniors.

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Ashley Bryan / Paula Wilson: Take the World into Your Arms

Painting by Ashley Bryan depicting a still life scene of flowers, bottles, vessels, and fruits.

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Light on Main Street

Video installation with a number of people swimming with a black background.

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Naeem Mohaiemen: grace

A film still in which two figures face each other behind a paneled screen.

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Time and Tide Flow Wide: The Collection in Context, 1959–1973

Colorful oil on linen painting in which the central, skeletal figure raises both arms. In the background, the text SOUL X is legible.

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All in One: Selections from the Alex Katz Foundation Collection

Sculptural wall installation of a series of pieces forming a broken question mark.

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Alex Katz: Theater and Dance

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.

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Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death

Watercolor painting of a house with people and a horse-drawn carriage under a cloudy sky.

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2022 Senior Exhibition

Compilation image of 2022 Senior exhibitors and portraits.

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Sarah Cain: hand in hand

Colorful abstract mural with blue central panel and geometric shapes on a rich red background.

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Act of Sight: The Tsiaras Family Photography Collection

A young boy crouched on a grassy slope, resting his head on his crossed arms, with a mannequin head beneath him.

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The Poetics of Atmosphere: Lorna Simpson’s Cloudscape and Other Works from the Collection

A figure in a trench coat emerging from a cloud.

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Jacob Lawrence: The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture

A soldier riding a white horse charging forward with their sword in the air.

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Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine

Multiple figures in various colors, three of whom are wearing different hats. A pink figure in the front is being put into a purple bag.

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