Patterns

Artist Colby Sanford is sharing an intriguing new collection of approximately 20 works, to be displayed at Meyer Gallery in Park City, Utah.

- COLBY SANFORD

Sanford is most known for depicting his family as his subjects, but “his paintings seem to speak to our own distant memories,” says Meyer Gallery, “perhaps telling us something about ourselves.” While Sanford has indeed explored many significant conceptual themes in his career, his show with Meyer titled Patterns, expands even further.

“My work is based around my own life as the jumping point,” Sanford explains, “but it gets a little more romantic in mind as I consider everything that happens. I dig deep into the meaning and [in respects to this show] I explore things like intergenerational patterns.”

For Patterns, Sanford’s thinking began with an exploration of our human routines or, rather, the things we do every day. “It’s the daily patterns of waking up and going to bed, eating food,” he says. “Simple rituals.”