Colleen Terrell Comer is drawn to the South’s idiosyncratic architecture in areas both dilapidated and maintained. She works from photographs, imparting to each painting a personal, eye-level perspective. The work is deconstructed and fractured through linear elements and textural patterns. These dissections act as visual representation of the immediate effect of man on our environment, and as a reference to the disintegration of buildings and neighborhoods over time- both physically and in memory. Many areas of the South have been through several cycles of prosperity and poverty. Her paintings attempt to capture the history/change on a human level.
Colleen Terrell Comer is originally from Mobile, Alabama and received her BFA from Auburn University. She has lived and shown her work across the South East and in New York, NY. Her work has been commissioned for personal and corporate collections including the Contemporary Carolina Collection; a major retrospective of living South Carolina artists. Consistent elements in her work include intense color and composition. She believes her role as an artist is to act as both lens and mirror to the viewer- revealing unseen connections that reflect basic human conditions.
Colleen Terrell Comer is originally from Mobile, Alabama and received her BFA from Auburn University. She has lived and shown her work across the South East and in New York, NY. Her work has been commissioned for personal and corporate collections including the Contemporary Carolina Collection; a major retrospective of living South Carolina artists. Consistent elements in her work include intense color and composition. She believes her role as an artist is to act as both lens and mirror to the viewer- revealing unseen connections that reflect basic human conditions.