ADRIANE COLBURN
Bio
Adriane Colburn is an artist based in San Francisco, CA. For the past several years, she has been working on a series of installations and maps that seek to organize and chart changes in the natural and urban landscape. These constructions, made of layers of hand cut paper often shed light on systems that exist below or those that are shielded by its exterior. Colburn maps out these “inaccessible” places, by collating and reorganizing visual information, (often based on landscapes or history) to create an abstraction that can be both informative and/or ambiguous.
She has exhibited her work nationally and throughout the Bay Area at Gallery 16, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Wattis Gallery at CCA, Southern Exposure, Stephen Wolf Fine Arts and Luggage Store Gallery (also co-curated the No War show, 2002) and internationally at the Nordic Watercolor Museum in Sweden and at Artesterium in Tblisi, Georgia. She teaches as a visiting lecturer at Stanford University and The San Francisco Art Institute. Colburn received her MFA from Stanford University and her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been a resident artist at the Kala Art Institute, Macdowell Colony, The Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at UNH, The Headlands Center for the Arts and The Blue Mountain Center, and is a recent recipient of an Artadia Award and a Eureka Fellowship.