Travis Collinson
dal 22/5/2015 al 2/7/2015
Segnalato da
22/5/2015
Travis Collinson
Maloney Fine Art, Los Angeles
Knobby Knees. Drawing from the influences of both classical painting and minimal abstraction, Travis Collinson's work creates a framework for people, nature and space to exist in an anxious state of entropy.
Knobby Knees, Travis Collinson’s second solo exhibition of paintings and drawings at Maloney
Fine Art, is a new body of work; a series of portraits using family, friends and colleagues painted
with a signature style of simplified form and pure color, providing insight into the intimacy shared
between the artist and his subject. Collinson started as an illustrator/cartoonist, creating comic
book narratives within the frame. An emphasis on drawing is underscored in his work. Each of his
subjects, seemingly devoid of expression and in a state of anomie, are depicted with large heads
attached to bodies cut off at the knees—distortions of form and space, compressed as if swaddled
within the frame. Through this compression, they become highly expressive, gesticulative figures
of personal emotions and spiritual truths.
Conceived as a series, these artworks are a continuation of Collinson's investigation of the work of
other artists, primarily those whose portraits are recognized as their legacy, like Jean Auguste
DominIque Ingres, Édouard Vuillard, and contemporary artists such as Alice Neel, Alex Katz and
Marlene Dumas. His interest also lies in the personas that an artist takes on; in this series he
focused primarily on the persona of Andy Warhol, known for his opaque, non-persona often
likened to that of a zombie. The title of the series, Knobby Knees points not only to where his
depictions of people end within the frame, but also draws reference to the Nabis group of artists:
Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, Paul Sérusier. Pronounced nah-BEE and
derived from a Hebrew word meaning prophet, the Nabis artists each took on a different persona
within the group. Collinson imagines himself as the Nabi of the Empathetic Portrait, looking to
interior spaces and to artists' internal thoughts and experiences as refuges from the modern
world.
Travis Collinson has been featured in group exhibition throughout the country most recently in
Look at me: Portraiture from Manet to Present at Leila Heller Gallery in New York and a solo
exhibition at Dominican University titled Narcolepsy in Pink. He was also featured in the Berkeley
Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive exhibition Hauntology and is included in their permanent
collections. He currently resides in San Francisco, California.
Image: Travis Collinson, Scatter, 2013, Acrylic, Oil, collage and mixed media on canvas, 48 X 48 inches
Opening reception: Saturday, May 23; 6-8 PM
Maloney Fine Art
2680 South La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles
Tue - Sat 11am to 5pm
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