Colleen Brand Art

Colleen Brand | Professional Artist

BA in Graphic Design/Advertising with a concentration in Studio Art, Moravian College ‘01

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Awards/Honors

• Honorable Mention for "See the Forest for the Trees", Reconfiguration Show at The Plastic Club, jurored by Rick Snyderman, former owner of the Snyderman Gallery, December 2018

• Second Place for "Going Coastal", Member/Student Show at Fleisher Art Memorial, Abstract Painting category, jurored by Sophie Sanders, 2018

• Honorable Mention for "Untitled", Member/Student Group Show at Fleisher Art Memorial, Works on Paper Category (Painting Intuitively), 2017

• First Place for “Puddle Dance”, Member/Student Group Show at Fleisher Art Memorial, Painting Category (Painting Intuitively), jurored by Shelley Langdale, Associate Curator, Prints and Drawings, Phila. Museum of Art, 2014

• First Place for “Smoky Horizon”, Scapes, The Plastic Club, jurored by Karen Baumeister, Adjunct Professor at Montgomery County Community College and Faculty at Fleisher Art Memorial, 2013

• Best of Show, Moravian College, Celebrating Moravian Women, 2000

• Third Place, Best of Print, Fleisher Art Memorial, 2011

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025

• New Works, Calm Waters Coffee - Newtown, PA

2024

• ​New Works, Calm Waters Coffee - Newtown, PA

• New Works, Calm Waters Coffee - Bristol, PA

• New Works, Village Players of Hatboro, Hatboro, PA

2023

• Colorful Visions, Solomon Levy Gallery at Mt. Airy Art Garage (MAAG), Philadelphia, PA

2022

• Colorful Horizons, Manayunk-Roxborough Art Center, Philadelphia, PA

2021

• Beyond the Brush, Moravian University, Bethlehem, PA

2019

• Beyond the Horizon, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

2018

• Recent Works, Easttown Library, Berwyn, PA

2016

• Shapes and Colors, Darlington Arts Center, Garnet Valley, PA

• Colorful Spaces, Manayunk-Roxborough Art Center, Philadelphia, PA

2015

• Evolving Horizon, Manayunk-Roxborough Art Center, Philadelphia, PA

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025

• New Members 2025, Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA

• 3rd Annual Heart of Gold Charity Exhibition, Gold Door Gallery, Hatboro, PA

• 126th Annual Adult Student Exhibition, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

2024

• In the Distance, Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA

• Back to Basics, Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA

• Works on Paper, Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA

• Small Works, Sweet Mabel, Narberth, PA

2023

• Art Under $100, Sweet Mabel, Narberth, PA

2022

• Colorways, Gallery at Courtyard by Marriott Philadelphia South at The Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA

• New Now V, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA

• Radical Love Show, Eclipse Center for Creative Community, Lansdale, PA

2021

• New Normal: Working through Quarantine, Payne Gallery at Moravian University, Bethlehem, PA

2020

• Colors/Shapes of Summer Show, Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA

2019

• Fairmount Arts Crawl, Wallace & Nilan Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2018

• Dear Fleisher Invitational, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

• What's My Line, Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA

2017

• 9th Annual Westhampton Beach Festival of the Arts, Westhampton Beach, NY

2016

• 6th Annual Community Exhibition, 3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2015

• 2015 National Painting Show, North Valley Art League, Redding, CA

2014

• Annual Juried Show, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA

• Small Worlds Show, The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA

• Member/Student Group Show, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA   (1st Place in Abstract Painting)

2013

• Lucky 13 Group Show, Mesquite Fine Arts Center Gallery, Mesquite, NV

• Seven Deadly Sins, RRCA North Gallery, Millville, NJ

• Scapes, The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA   (1st Place)

• 215/610, Delaware County Community College (DCCC) Art Gallery, Media, PA

• Women in Charge Group Show, Soho20 Gallery, New York, NY

2012

• Absolutely Abstract, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA

2011

• The French Connection, Art in City Hall Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2009

• Select Alumni Group Show, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA

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Affiliations

Plastic Club

InLiquid

Lehigh Art Alliance

International Society of Experimental Artists

North Penn Arts Alliance

Sweet Mabel

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Presentations

2017

• Painting Intuitively and Energizing Your Work, Greater Norristown Art League, E. Norriton, PA

2014

• Acrylic Painting, Whitemarsh Art Center, Whitemarsh, PA

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Teaching

2025 

• Abstract Impressions of Nature, North Penn Arts Alliance, Lansdale, PA (Spring Semester)

• Creative Background Papers, North Penn Arts Alliance, Lansdale, PA (Spring Semester)

2024

• Abstract Mixed Media, North Penn Arts Alliance, Lansdale, PA (Fall Semester)

• Abstract Painting, North Penn Arts Alliance, Lansdale, PA (Spring Semester)

• Neurographic Art, North Penn Arts Alliance, Lansdale, PA (Spring Semester)

2023

• Abstract Painting, North Penn Arts Alliance, Lansdale, PA (Spring and Fall Semesters)

• Neurographic Art, North Penn Arts Alliance, Lansdale, PA (Spring and Fall Semesters)

2022

• Abstract Painting, North Penn Arts Alliance, Lansdale, PA (Spring and Fall Semesters)

• Neurographic Art, North Penn Arts Alliance, Lansdale, PA (Spring and Fall Semesters)

• Abstract Painting, Parke Towne Apartments, Philadelphia, PA

2021

• Abstract Painting, North Penn Arts Alliance, Lansdale, PA 

2020

• Intuitive Acrylic Painting, North Penn Arts Alliance, Lansdale, PA 

2019

• Intuitive Acrylic Painting, Utility Works, Lansdowne, PA

2018

• Intuitive Painting, North Penn Arts Alliance, Lansdale, PA 

2017

• Intuitive Acrylic Painting, Greater Norristown Art League, E. Norriton, PA

2014

• Paint Night, Whitemarsh Art Center, Whitemarsh, PA

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