Colby Claycomb, was born in Sacramento, California in 1979. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Colby received his M.F.A. from San Francisco Art Institute and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009. Prior that, he recieved a B.A. from University of California, Davis in 2006 and received an A.A from Sierra Community College.
Colby is best known by his friends as mainly being able to function through physical expression, rather through words and phrases. Colby's work uses humor, fear and sadness as objects and materials. Colby is influenced by popular and underground culture and uses similar forms of communication to negotiate the differences between the urban and suburban, reality and dream, and good vs evil.
BOOK FOR SALEExit Strategies:Sculptures, Installations, Exitventions, and Photography by Colby Claycomb