Andrew Collins
Andrew James Collins is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Through material and process experimentation he seeks to come closer to a concept of human understanding. His work emerges from the tangents between death, life, society, language, history, landscape, and metaphysics.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Andrew Collins’s practice is rooted in the exploration of landscape, body, and history. The artist seeks a a fluid interplay between various ideologies, processes, and materials by working on multiple distinct bodies of work. Collins’ experimentation with form and materiality reveals the nature of his experience and connection with the world: visual creations that evoke simple and elegant natural processes that delve into historical and personal narratives surrounding the body and the landscape. Collins constantly seeks new and innovative processes and materials to incorporate in my work, embracing chance, force, and accident as key elements. His work draws inspiration from sources including geology, time passage, cosmology, and the cycles of life and death. His most recent body of work is rooted in anthropology, utilizing more recognizable forms, humor, and solid materials. Borrowing language from graffiti, street culture, and masks, Collins has begun to employ methods such as 3-D scanning and printing, aluminum pours, and other casting techniques.
CURRICULUM VITAE
2007 - BFA Rhode Island School of Design
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2016 - Group Show / Uillinn / Cork, Ireland
2015 - Group Show / Uillinn / Cork, Ireland
2014 - “Uisce Agus Adhmad” / Wandsford Quay Gallery / Cork, Ireland
2014 - “Periphery” Group show / Keeseh Studios / Providence, Rhode Island
2014 - “SWELL” Group show / GRIN / Providence, Rhode Island
2013 - “BEAST” / GRIN / Providence. Rhode Island
2012 - WORK / Mana Contemporary / Jersey City, NJ
2011 - Group show / GalleryELL / Governors Island / New York, NY
2010 - “Chapel” solo show / Walcot Mortuary Chapel / Bath, England
2010 - Installation of Work / Dockland Warehouses / Cork, Ireland
2009 - Group exhibition / Hunting House Gallery / Maine
2009 - Two man show / Island Gallery / Rhode Island
2009 - Installation “HOUSE” / National Sculpture Factory / Cork, Ireland
2008 - Pawtucket Foundation juried exhibition / Rhode Island
2008 - Group show / Island Gallery / Rhode Island
2007 - Two man show / Koru Gallery / Rhode Island
2007 - "Untitled" group exhibition / ISB Gallery / RISD / Rhode Island
2007 - Group exhibition / Woods-Gerry Gallery / RISD / Rhode Island
2006 - Group exhibition / ISB Gallery / RISD / Rhode Island
2005 - Two man show / Encore Gallery / Rhode Island
2005 - Group exhibition / Encore Gallery / Rhode Island
2005 - Two man show / Encore Gallery / Rhode Island
RESIDENCIES
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2013 - National Sculpture Factory / Cork, Ireland. Production, research, and travel residency.
2011 - GalleryELL / Governors Island
2009 - National Sculpture Factory / Cork, Ireland