SELECTED PRESS & EXHIBITIONS
MAIN STREET MAGAZINE | NOVEMBER 2025
“Peering Beyond the Frame”
"McGuire's work carries the sensibility of film stills — fragments of a larger story frozen in time. Each painting suggests that something has just happened, or is about to happen, just beyond the frame."
by Leora Armstrong
NOVEMBER 2025 - JANUARY 2026
Wish You Were Here
Two-person exhibition with Fern Apfel · Tremaine Gallery, The Hotchkiss School · Curated by Joan Baldwin
“McGuire masters the art we experience daily . . . [her] work greets us like letters, something to unfold, something intimate.”
— Joan Baldwin, Curator
“Colleen McGuire captures the ephemeral qualities of everyday life, such as light falling on a fogged mirror, rain streaking a window, or fractured sunlight on a porch. Working in oil on board, McGuire translates these fleeting moments into quiet meditations on the spaces and experiences that define daily living.”
— Litchfield Magazine
MAY - JUNE 2025
Short Stories
Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY
Group exhibition with Michael Abrams, Lois Dickson, Lisa Ivory, Elisa Jensen, and Ying Li.
FEBRUARY - MARCH 2025
Connecticut Curates
ART06870, Old Greenwich, CT
Group exhibition. Curated by Jared Quinton (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art), Jasmin Agosto (NXTHVN), Aimee Burg (Ely Center for Contemporary Art), and Theo Coulombe (Standard Space).
OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2024
Still/Life
Group Exhibition. Fort Street Studio, NYC
Organized by Armature Projects.
SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2023
Night and Day
Standard Space, Sharon, CT
“From a distance, by sunlight and moonlight, Colleen has been documenting our community through its streets and building … Her paintings are intimate and personal, a direct and visceral connection to our town.”
—Theo Coloumbe, Standard Space
"No one could paint the local Shell gas station at night in a more monumental, majestic fashion… McGuire's work has no judgy critique of suburban sprawl. She paints the gas station with reverence as if it were the Parthenon lit up at night."
—Jeff Joyce, “Sharon Captured in Paint”, The Lakeville Journal