Jettison

Colleen Ford White (b. 1982 - Evanston, Illinois) is an American artist who has lived and worked in New York and Colorado. She received her BFA in photography and painting from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO (2004) and her MFA for studio arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY (2010). Colleen works as an art educator and lives with her family outside of Denver.

Colleen’s most current work spans drawing, painting, collage and photography. By working within themes like nostalgia, iconography, entropy and the cosmos; Colleen’s artwork explores the experience of identity through abstractions, altered perceptions of reality, and story.

This most recent body of work centers the Earth's moon as the subject in which to explore ideas around the slow progression towards entropic states of being. The moon is highlighted similarly to a subject in a portrait and explores the delicate nature of its existence in relation to the viewer’s expectations of its reliability. The work aims to unravel the security in our expectations for order and meaning, to confront the grief of chaos and disorder the universe has in store; to allow the moon to be an agent of its own destiny despite us - separate from our need to feel safe from what it would mean for us in its absence.

"Jettison" was created in 2024 by using colored pencil and flashe (a matte vinyl paint) on watercolor paper. This drawing is one of many in an ongoing series of drawings which aim to examine the world of theoretical astrophysics, particle theory and our relation to the greater cosmos.