statement & bio

Bio
Colour Maisch is a Salt Lake City based artist, educator, and curator. Colour spent her formative years in Southern California before returning to Utah to study Spanish and Political Science at the University of Utah, where she received a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics and Sculpture. Colour has exhibited widely and has received several artists grants including a Utah Artist Fellowship. Her work is collected by various private and public institutions including Onna House, New York; Dennis Freedman, New York; and Salt Lake County Art Collection. In 2023, she co-founded Material Art Gallery in Salt Lake City, an artist-run space focused on shifting the paradigm of how galleries and artists work together. Currently, Colour is exploring the art of balancing being a working artist and full-time mom, all roles she loves, sees as interrelated, and that inform her life and practice.

Statement
My work begins by paying attention. Rather than treating materials as passive objects, I approach them as participants in larger systems of change. Industrial hose, drywall, resin, porcelain, plants, and color each carry their own histories and behaviors, revealing the quiet labor taking place within bodies, landscapes, and materials themselves. The work creates opportunities to notice what is often overlooked—the hidden processes that sustain life, the subtle shifts that occur over time, and the extraordinary complexity held within ordinary things.

Time is not simply something these materials endure; it is the medium through which they reveal themselves. Whether through the movement of water across gypsum, the layering of translucent color, the seasonal life of a plant, or the preservation of an industrial object in resin, each work creates the conditions for change to become visible. Meaning emerges not from symbolism alone, but through sustained attention to the relationships between materials, time, and perception.