David collins bio

 

“The pictorial engine that propels much of the work of the painter and printmaker David Collins is a dialogue between crisply defined geometrical shapes and decorative motifs and a vast immersive space, an infinitely expanding formlessness that is bounded (literally but not in the viewer’s imagination) by the painting’s outside edge.

Collins proposes a dynamic tension between these seemingly oppositional forces or conditions and achieves a dialectical resolution—tenuous in some works, seemingly inevitable in others—that conveys a sense of complex pressures aligning in compositional harmony.”

-Stephen Maine

Born in Iowa and raised in Texas, David Collins received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1988.

Known for his colorful, densely layered abstract paintings. Collins is fascinated by the fluidness of memory and creates a visual language dominated by sites of airports, homes, and construction sites from his recollections.

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