Liz Collins
Liz Collins
June 20 – August 2, 2024
1 Freeman Alley, New York
CANDICE MADEY is thrilled to announce the gallery’s second exhibition with Liz Collins, presenting a series of new works in textile that depict natural phenomena and fantastical landscapes; alongside abstract works that are created using a method of deconstructing existing fabrics (that are designed by the artist) to create form and pattern–a process Collins is well-known for.
Like Collins’s past work in textile, installation, drawing or design, the works employ a vibrant color palette, creating a space that celebrates queer feminist sensibilities. In two new large-scale weavings - a series which was conceived of for this year’s Venice Biennial - rainbows traverse skyscapes, in dramatic landscapes that suggest the inner turmoil of an artist-activist at this contemporary moment, at once hopeful, utopic, apocalyptic, and sublime. In addition, 2-3 woven works depicting lighting wheels, suggest a dramatically changing environment; and, 2-3 “deconstructed” fabrics, stretched and presented as paintings, the process which seems to advocate for an active dismantling of structures to create new form.
In all cases, works in the exhibition present a vibrant tension and release, and a sense of artists’ agency in creating new worlds.
Collins’s current and forthcoming exhibitions include the 60th La Biennale di Venezia, Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, and Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, curated by Lynne Cooke, presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; The National Gallery of Art Canada, Ottawa, ON; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. In 2025, Collins will have a mid-career retrospective at the RISD Museum in Providence, RI with an accompanying monograph.
Solo exhibitions and installations have been exhibited at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; the Knoxville Museum of Art, TN; AMP, Provincetown, MA; Touchstones Rochdale, UK; among others. Selected group exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, Leslie Lohman Museum, Museum of FIT, The Drawing Center, BRIC, and Smackmellon – all in New York City, NY; as well as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA; ICA/Boston, MA; Addison Gallery at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA; Lyndhurst Mansion, Tarrytown, NY; Longhouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY; and NoLAB, Istanbul, TR. Collins’s honors include an Anonymous Was A Woman Fellowship, a USA Fellowship, a MacColl Johnson Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Arts & Artist Relief grant, Drawing Center Open Sessions and residencies at Civitella Ranieri, Siena Art Institute, MacDowell, Yaddo, Haystack, Museum of Arts and Design, Stoneleaf, and currently she is in the Two Trees Cultural Subsidy Studio Program in Brooklyn. In 2020, The Tang Museum released Liz Collins Energy Field, her first major publication.
Collins lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA and MFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design.
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