Colin Doherty

ARTIST STATEMENT

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Colin Doherty explores the landscapes of memory and the emotional terrain between presence and absence. Through richly layered oil paintings that blend figuration and environment, Doherty revisits sites both distant and familiar—rural Central America, Kentucky interiors, airplane cabins—rendering them as spaces where time folds in on itself.

 

Figures from the artist’s personal history—his late parents, his younger self, his wife and daughters—appear as quiet presences, neither fully here nor gone. These are not simply scenes, but thresholds: between life and death, memory and material, the seen and the unseen. This body of work is an invitation to reflect on how we inhabit space—and how space, in turn, inhabits us.