12/4/2024

My most recent works are on view in Exposure 2, at Ceres Gallery, New York, NY - 547 27th St., Suite 201, New York, NY. Exhibition is open Tuesday through Saturday, Dec. 7. Gallery hours are: 12 NOON to 6PM

Opening night is Thursday, Dec. 5, 6 to 8 PM

I will be showing multiple works at Ceres Gallery, Chelsea, NY in their Exposure 2024 Series, December 3 - 7, 2024. Ceres is located at 547 West 27th St. New York. This is a well known nonprofit gallery benefiting women and female identifying artists. https://ceresgallery.org/

11/11/24

Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC

Thank you Transformer’s Transcendence exhibition currently on view at American University’s Katzen Arts Center, for their gala and auction through November 22. Proceeds benefit the gallery and the artist. https://www.transformerdc.org/auction. Unhinged has found a happy home!

Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition through November 24

Three of my larger works on paper are on view in Fearless Watercolors/Acurelas Con Conjones at Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC) through November 24th. I am very happy to be part of this show in the expansive Ground Floor Gallery. The space is open on weekends 1 to 6 PM only at 481 Van Brunt St, Door 7A, Brooklyn. BWAC is a well-known artist run cooperative. Proceeds benefit the sustained work of the venue and the artist. 718-596-2506. Accessible by ferries and by F train Carroll St. Stop Carroll Gardens.

https://www.bwac.org/exhibition-content/fearless-watercolors-10-14-3crfd

6/25/24 Fake Websites and Web Searches Under My Name

Beginning in late May 2024 my art images and portraits were copied and reconfigured into fake sale website pages and attached to legitimate international sites, and most likely to a completely fake sale site, that is repeatedly republished with different names/headers. With search link headers as “Michele Colburn Sale”, “Michele Colburn Factory Sale”, “Michele Colburn Cheap”, “Michele Colburn Hot Deals”, and more, my artwork images appear for sale with prices of $136.00 and subtext that states 57% price drop and more. All of this is fake and bot-generated most likely. I do what I can, and at this writing, have contacted WALA for help

The only legitimate Michele Colburn site featuring my artwork is the one you are on at this moment. You can arrange appointments to see my newer work as it is not in my best interest at this time to put it on the web.

June

Very Big News! I have quit my day job! This means I can devote 100% of time to my art practice. This is huge for an artist!

As of the week of June 1 to this writing (June 8th), several bogus links to a bogus sales website have been posted with my name and “they” are ostensibly selling photo portraits of me and many of my works which are already sold. There is no indication as to precisely what they are selling, photos I guess for the price of $136.00 per piece. Most of the paintings have homes or are at my studio in Washington, DC. I can only urge any potential clients to avoid such websites with bogus terms such as “Sales,” “Clearance,” “Price Drops” and sites with horrid design. No artist in their right mind would be a part of this. On the advise of a lawyer, these may be AI generated as all images are directly lifted from a Google image search of me.

May

Absolutely chuffed that several of my works have been published in The Nation magazine with a short bio! Curator Andrea Arroyo.

April

One month self-generated artist residency at The Gite, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.

January

Lovely to be a participating artist in The Winter Exhibition at the Blue Mountain Gallery , NY, NY. Juror Don Kimes.

Acceptance of Where There’s Smoke, 2021. Inert gunpowder and watercolors on Arches with deckle edge. 22 x 30 ins. (paper size); 28 x 36 ins. (framed), into the Fl3tch3r Foundation, Johnson City, TN.

2023

October - DC Commission on the Arts Fellowship Grant recipient. The support of DC residents who are artists is a huge boost to creativity and making it possible to create and live.

October/November - Happy to be in the FL3TCH3R Exhibition for Socially and Politically Engaged Art, Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University. Juror Adam DelMarcelle.

July - Accepted to the ACI Artists, Writers, and Scholars in Umbria, Italy for two weeks. This was the experience of a lifetime, to commune with Giottos, make new friends and have the peace and quiet to research and begin a new series!

2023 Arts Event Season - Thrilled to have been a participating artist for the DC Wall Mountables, MOCA Arlington, Transformer Gallery, The Washington Project for the Arts nonprofit events this year.

{News from 2019 - 2023 is now archived)