ANDY COLLINS (AMERICAN B. 1971)
Untitled (green)
2005
oil and alyd on canvas
183 x 162.5 cm

Provenance:
Mary Boone, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 200

Exhibition History:
Abstract America New Painting And Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London, 29 May 2009 - 17 January 2010
Andy Collins, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, 6 – 29 October 2005

Artist Description:
Andy Collins’s paintings are lusciously synthetic. Cold and glossy, his large pastel canvases are suffocating vacuums of glamour. Working from fashion photos, Collins’s abstracted forms are derived from the overlooked in-between spaces of supermodel spreads. Folds in fabric, creases in elbows, knees and armpits become a pattern of fetishised contemplation. Their contours are retraced and suggested forms are embellished, creating ethereal motifs that are both organic and electrifying. Collins’s process is one of almost perverse fixation. Taking several months to complete a painting, he constructs his airless forms entirely by hand, leaving no trace of brushwork. In Untitled, his biomorphic composition, a sublime vacuous beauty, mesmerises both seduction and emptiness