The Colony
The Colony
The Colony is an ongoing cycle of twelve 62" x 44" figurative oil paintings that constructs a painted world inhabited by a recurring cast of characters. As they move from painting to painting, their roles, relationships, and identities continually shift. At times, they appear as different people; at others, as different versions of the same person. They move through cycles of conflict, humor, loss, celebration, and transformation, reflecting the contradictions that shape our lives.
Intertextuality is central to The Colony. Personal memory, Western painting, American popular culture, literature, music, and everyday experience intersect throughout the series, allowing familiar figures, symbols, and stories to reappear in new contexts. Meaning accumulates from one painting to the next as viewers discover connections across the series.
Rather than telling a single story, The Colony creates a world where memory and imagination overlap, and where every return offers another way of seeing the people we are, the people we were, and the people we might become.