Graham Collins
A Forgotten War
2015
steel, copper, bronze
63 x 112.5 centimeters
Unique
With his free-form sculptures, Graham COLLINS plays with the conventions of modern sculpture in a humorous way. The metal sculptures are made up of different metal objects. Some have been picked up from the pavement during one of COLLINS's walks around the streets of New York; others are items which have been casted in bronze by the artist, ranging from crinkle-cut crisps to toothbrushes and fried plantain chips. The works made in this way produce a gratifying contrast between the banality of the objects chosen and the semi-precious nature of bronze.
Graham Collins
A Village
2015
steel, copper, bronze
60 x 133 centimeters
Unique
With his free-form sculptures, Graham COLLINS plays with the conventions of modern sculpture in a humorous way. The metal sculptures are made up of different metal objects. Some have been picked up from the pavement during one of COLLINS's walks around the streets of New York; others are items which have been casted in bronze by the artist, ranging from crinkle-cut crisps to toothbrushes and fried plantain chips. The works made in this way produce a gratifying contrast between the banality of the objects chosen and the semi-precious nature of bronze.
Graham Collins
An Exhausted City
2015
steel, bronze
40 x 31 centimeters
Unique
With his free-form sculptures, Graham COLLINS plays with the conventions of modern sculpture in a humorous way. The metal sculptures are made up of different metal objects. Some have been picked up from the pavement during one of COLLINS's walks around the streets of New York; others are items which have been casted in bronze by the artist, ranging from crinkle-cut crisps to toothbrushes and fried plantain chips. The works made in this way produce a gratifying contrast between the banality of the objects chosen and the semi-precious nature of bronze.
Graham Collins
GPS
2015
steel, copper, bronze
244 x 76.5 centimeters
Unique
With his free-form sculptures, Graham COLLINS plays with the conventions of modern sculpture in a humorous way. The metal sculptures are made up of different metal objects. Some have been picked up from the pavement during one of COLLINS's walks around the streets of New York; others are items which have been casted in bronze by the artist, ranging from crinkle-cut crisps to toothbrushes and fried plantain chips. The works made in this way produce a gratifying contrast between the banality of the objects chosen and the semi-precious nature of bronze.
Graham Collins
Jester
2015
oil and acrylic on canvas, fil, support en aluminum
240 x 74.5 centimeters
Unique
The artworks from the Sewn Paintings series are made up of multiple canvas fragments from acrylic or oil paintings by other artists - some professional, some amateur - , which were bought from garages sales, on the internet or at auction. This series reinterprets the contemporary enigma of the status of the author. These works, created in the modernist aesthetic, are assemblages of figurative canvases which are sometimes naïve or realist, kitsch or expressionist. These compositions, put together with great care, cultivate a poetic sense of the cut-up method, inherited from American literature.
Graham Collins
Mural
2015
spray enamel on canvas, reclaimed wood, glass, window tint
173 x 223 centimeters
Unique
Hidden beneath the tinted glass of Tinted Monochromes are spray-painted or coated canvases, all mounted in an old frame made of bits of reclaimed wood. These paintings combine the canon of abstract painting with the artist's taste for hand-crafted techniques and forms such as carpentry, or the use of big sheets of self-adhesive film of the type which is used to tint car windows. These works cannot be unveiled from behind their sparkling surfaces, and instead reflect the viewer's own image.
Graham Collins
Outside Versus In
2015
oil on canvas, thread, wenge frame, aluminum support
193 x 147.5 centimeters
Unique
The artworks from the Sewn Paintings series are made up of multiple canvas fragments from acrylic or oil paintings by other artists - some professional, some amateur - , which were bought from garages sales, on the internet or at auction. This series reinterprets the contemporary enigma of the status of the author. These works, created in the modernist aesthetic, are assemblages of figurative canvases which are sometimes naïve or realist, kitsch or expressionist. These compositions, put together with great care, cultivate a poetic sense of the cut-up method, inherited from American literature.
Graham Collins
Reclining Figure
2015
steel, copper, bronze
30.5 x 112.5 centimeters
Unique
With his free-form sculptures, Graham COLLINS plays with the conventions of modern sculpture in a humorous way. The metal sculptures are made up of different metal objects. Some have been picked up from the pavement during one of COLLINS's walks around the streets of New York; others are items which have been casted in bronze by the artist, ranging from crinkle-cut crisps to toothbrushes and fried plantain chips. The works made in this way produce a gratifying contrast between the banality of the objects chosen and the semi-precious nature of bronze.
Graham Collins
Sculpture
2015
steel, copper, bronze
25 x 5 centimeters
Unique
With his free-form sculptures, Graham COLLINS plays with the conventions of modern sculpture in a humorous way. The metal sculptures are made up of different metal objects. Some have been picked up from the pavement during one of COLLINS's walks around the streets of New York; others are items which have been casted in bronze by the artist, ranging from crinkle-cut crisps to toothbrushes and fried plantain chips. The works made in this way produce a gratifying contrast between the banality of the objects chosen and the semi-precious nature of bronze.
Graham Collins
Situational Comedy
2015
oil on canvas, thread, wenge frame, aluminum support
173 x 223 centimeters
Unique
The artworks from the Sewn Paintings series are made up of multiple canvas fragments from acrylic or oil paintings by other artists - some professional, some amateur - , which were bought from garages sales, on the internet or at auction. This series reinterprets the contemporary enigma of the status of the author. These works, created in the modernist aesthetic, are assemblages of figurative canvases which are sometimes naïve or realist, kitsch or expressionist. These compositions, put together with great care, cultivate a poetic sense of the cut-up method, inherited from American literature.
Graham Collins
So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright II
2015
oil on canvas, thread, wenge frame, aluminum support
129.5 x 94 centimeters
Unique
The artworks from the Sewn Paintings series are made up of multiple canvas fragments from acrylic or oil paintings by other artists - some professional, some amateur - , which were bought from garages sales, on the internet or at auction. This series reinterprets the contemporary enigma of the status of the author. These works, created in the modernist aesthetic, are assemblages of figurative canvases which are sometimes naïve or realist, kitsch or expressionist. These compositions, put together with great care, cultivate a poetic sense of the cut-up method, inherited from American literature.
Graham Collins
Storm
2015
steel, copper, bronze
41 x 20 centimeters
Unique
With his free-form sculptures, Graham COLLINS plays with the conventions of modern sculpture in a humorous way. The metal sculptures are made up of lots of different metal objects. Some have been picked up from the pavement during one of COLLINS's walks around the streets of New York; others are items which have been bronze-cast by the artist, ranging from crinkle-cut crisps to toothbrushes and fried plantain chips. The works made in this way produce a gratifying contrast between the banality of the objects chosen and the semi-precious nature of bronze.
Graham Collins
Triangeln
2015
primed linen, reclaimed wood, glass, window tint
203.5 x 127 centimeters
Unique
Hidden beneath the tinted glass of Tinted Monochromes are spray-painted or coated canvases, all mounted in an old frame made of bits of reclaimed wood. These paintings combine the canon of abstract painting with the artist's taste for hand-crafted techniques and forms such as carpentry, or the use of big sheets of self-adhesive film of the type which is used to tint car windows. These works cannot be unveiled from behind their sparkling surfaces, and instead reflect the viewer's own image.
Graham Collins
Unsub XVIII
2015
primed linen, reclaimed wood, glass, window tint
193 x 147.5 centimeters
Unique
Hidden beneath the tinted glass of Tinted Monochromes are spray-painted or coated canvases, all mounted in an old frame made of bits of reclaimed wood. These paintings combine the canon of abstract painting with the artist's taste for hand-crafted techniques and forms such as carpentry, or the use of big sheets of self-adhesive film of the type which is used to tint car windows. These works cannot be unveiled from behind their sparkling surfaces, and instead reflect the viewer's own image.
Graham Collins
Untitled X Ray
2015
oil on canvas
63.5 x 51 centimeters
Unique
X-ray Paintings are oil-on-canvas works which accurately recreate the X-rays taken of old canvases for conservation purposes. These show the paintings' underlying structures, and sometimes one or more pre-existing paintings which remain beneath the work we see now. They reveal their hidden side and the secrets of their creation, allowing us a glimpse into their former lives. Each work borrows classic reproduction techniques from the original, including replication and squaring up, as well as the use of oil paint, but ultimately the only things depicted are these mysterious skeletons – the actual subjects of the original works remain invisible.
Graham Collins
Untitled X Ray
2015
oil on canvas
51 x 76.5 centimeters
Unique
X-ray Paintings are oil-on-canvas works which accurately recreate the X-rays taken of old canvases for conservation purposes. These show the paintings' underlying structures, and sometimes one or more pre-existing paintings which remain beneath the work we see now. They reveal their hidden side and the secrets of their creation, allowing us a glimpse into their former lives. Each work borrows classic reproduction techniques from the original, including replication and squaring up, as well as the use of oil paint, but ultimately the only things depicted are these mysterious skeletons – the actual subjects of the original works remain invisible.
Graham Collins
Untitled X Ray
2015
oil on canvas
36 x 46.7 centimeters
Unique
X-ray Paintings are oil-on-canvas works which accurately recreate the X-rays taken of old canvases for conservation purposes. These show the paintings' underlying structures, and sometimes one or more pre-existing paintings which remain beneath the work we see now. They reveal their hidden side and the secrets of their creation, allowing us a glimpse into their former lives. Each work borrows classic reproduction techniques from the original, including replication and squaring up, as well as the use of oil paint, but ultimately the only things depicted are these mysterious skeletons – the actual subjects of the original works remain invisible.
Graham Collins
Untitled X Ray
2015
oil on canvas
85.5 x 61.5 centimeters
Unique
X-ray Paintings are oil-on-canvas works which accurately recreate the X-rays taken of old canvases for conservation purposes. These show the paintings' underlying structures, and sometimes one or more pre-existing paintings which remain beneath the work we see now. They reveal their hidden side and the secrets of their creation, allowing us a glimpse into their former lives. Each work borrows classic reproduction techniques from the original, including replication and squaring up, as well as the use of oil paint, but ultimately the only things depicted are these mysterious skeletons – the actual subjects of the original works remain invisible.
Graham Collins
Untitled X Ray
2015
oil on canvas
28.8 x 36.4 centimeters
Unique
X-ray Paintings are oil-on-canvas works which accurately recreate the X-rays taken of old canvases for conservation purposes. These show the paintings' underlying structures, and sometimes one or more pre-existing paintings which remain beneath the work we see now. They reveal their hidden side and the secrets of their creation, allowing us a glimpse into their former lives. Each work borrows classic reproduction techniques from the original, including replication and squaring up, as well as the use of oil paint, but ultimately the only things depicted are these mysterious skeletons – the actual subjects of the original works remain invisible.
Graham Collins
Untitled X Ray
2015
oil on canvas
91 x 64.5 centimeters
Unique
X-ray Paintings are oil-on-canvas works which accurately recreate the X-rays taken of old canvases for conservation purposes. These show the paintings' underlying structures, and sometimes one or more pre-existing paintings which remain beneath the work we see now. They reveal their hidden side and the secrets of their creation, allowing us a glimpse into their former lives. Each work borrows classic reproduction techniques from the original, including replication and squaring up, as well as the use of oil paint, but ultimately the only things depicted are these mysterious skeletons – the actual subjects of the original works remain invisible.
