Liz Collins Textile Art Exhibition
At Candice Madey Gallery
June 20- August 2, 2024
1 Freeman Alley, NYC, NY, USA
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.
More Exhibition information can be found here.
Image details: Liz Collins, Lightning Wheel, 2024, 59 3/4 x 39 3/4 inches (detail).
