Colin Darke
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Law |
| Occupation | Lawyer and Artist |
| Location | Detroit, Michigan, United States |
| Introduction | Born in 1977, and obtained his B.F.A., with an emphasis in watercolor painting, from Western Michigan University in 2001. Colin obtained his J.D., cum laude, from Michigan State University College of Law in 2004, and he obtained an LL.M. from Boston University School of Law in 2008, where he received the A. John Serino Outstanding Graduate Banking Law Student Prize. The Detroit News described Colin’s watercolor paintings as employing “a bold, colorful style reminiscent of the German Expressionists.” In 2010, Colin was juried into two highly competitive art competitions: (1) the 2010 Michigan Fine Arts Competition (Juror: Sondra Freckelton) at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center in Birmingham, Michigan, and (2) the 18th Annual National Juried Exhibition (Juror: Rackstraw Downes (2009 MacArthur Fellow)) at the Bowery Gallery in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York, New York. The Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center also invited Colin to participate in a two person show, and the LaFontsee Gallery selected Mr. Darke and his sister Kelly Darke to showcase their “Sibling Revelry” series of paintings at its gallery for the annual ArtPrize competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan. |
| Interests | drawing, painting, reading, writing, learning, running, and volunteering. |
| Favorite Movies | The Namesake, The Graduate, Tombstone, Old School, Wedding Crashers |
| Favorite Music | Al Green, Norah Jones, 50 Cent, Eminem, Jeff Buckley, The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, too many to name |
| Favorite Books | Catcher in the Rye, The Founding Brothers, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Interpreter of Maladies, a Brief History of Time, anything by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the letters of Vincent Van Gough to his brother Theo |