Andy Collins
dal 16/3/2000 al 22/4/2000
Segnalato da
16/3/2000
Andy Collins
Audiello Fine Art, New York
Audiello Fine Art, Inc. is pleased to announce its second solo exhibition by Andy Collins. The
show will open on Friday, March 17 and will run through Saturday, April 22, 2000.
Andy Collins was born 1971 in Atlanta, Georgia. The artist now lives and works in Brooklyn,
New York.
Walking a thin line between figuration and abstraction, Collins has struck upon a new breed
of forms. Raw and elegant each shape has the mirrored symmetry of a Rorschach test which
allows them to play with our psyche. Forms with a mantra like quality, one can almost hear
them generate sound vibrations through the thick pools of alkyd. Almost like melted
ice-cream, the surface seduces us into a meditative space where our minds are able to
wander through the subliminal territory of each reflected shape.
By dissecting images from the glossy pages of fashion magazines, Collins developed this
new world of visceral forms in suspended animation. Although potentially banal as sources,
he reduces the over-saturated imagery of mass-media to its minutia until he has discovered
an austere majesty.
Collins uses a muted palette of avocado, sand and cocoa that are evocative of a pale futuristic
jungle. Our mind runs through a mental catalogue of where we have seen these shapes
before, bones, flesh, plants? These references feel insufficient since each shape has
evolved to a state of artificial and natural coexistence, unseen before.
Andy Collins, Paintings
Audiello Fine Art, Inc.
March 17 - April 22, 2000
526 West 26th Street 5 fl.
New York, New York 10001