TENSION: A Single Painting Exhibition

Thanks to Jeffrey Cortland Jones for curating this exhibition in his space CORRIDOR in Dayton Ohio.

The opening was on Friday. I drove out with a good friend and we had a wonderful time talking with people and seeing the rest of the art that was going on in the building.

As always. The documentarian that I am, I had to film the painting in the exhibition.

I chose one painting for this exhibition, mostly because of space considerations. I know I could have put 4 or more in there, but I wanted to give the viewer one representation of my work to focus on. I know artists when they get exhibitions they tend to want to cram in all their newest work. I made sure with this exhibition to do neither of those. This painting is...

"01-03-2015"
30.5" X 67"
Acrylic on Acrylic Yarn on Painted Wood Chassis and Incorporated Aluminum Frame

Viewed from the twin lenses of the video camera. Show in Dayton Ohio. #dayton #ohiopainters #ohiononobjective #ohio #painting #color #artoninstagram #artwork #jeffreycortlandjones #jeffreycollins #badasspainting #yarn #void #texture #divisible #artgallery

A video posted by Jeffrey Collins (@jeffreymcollins) on Oct 10, 2016 at 10:11am PDT

The exhibition will be up in Dayton at Corridor/Divisible until the end of October. If you would like any other information about it. Please feel free to ask. You can also find out more here if you are on Facebook.

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Dayton and Heidelberg

September began with a bang for me. Jeffrey Cortland Jones curated a wonderful groundbreaking exhibition called Fiction (With only Daylight Between Us), the exhibition is only part of a grand scale traveling exhibition. It's already been announced to be heading to Heidelberg, Germany, opening October 15 at boecker contemporary.

The show is running currently at Corridor (divisible) in Dayton, OH from September 2 – 22.

The image below is from the website Curating Contemporary, run by Brian Edmonds. I would like to send a special Thank You for taking the time to put the exhibition online and on your website. It's a very well put together site I must add.

Those who know me, know that I am not a well traveled artist, not yet at least. So to me, this is a very big thing for me and my future. I have worked a lot to get to this point and I am enjoying it the best I can. I know I deserved it and am grateful for the opportunity. To be having my first group show in another country is something quite big in my book, I count no opportunity as smaller than the others, because each one helps me to reach another plateau that can be used to better my life, and the lives of those around me.

NOW. It's onto October when I will be having my first one person exhibition of 2016 also at Corridor, curated once more by Jeffrey Cortland Jones, titled TENSION. Running the duration of October. Below is the painting included. It's a solo painting for a solo exhibition.

"01-03-2015"
30.5" X 67"
Acrylic on Acrylic Yarn on Painted Wood Chassis and Incorporated Aluminun Frame

Kenworth Moffett RIP

Kenworth W. Moffett died yesterday at 10:40 AM peacefully in Stamford, CT, after a prolonged battle with heart problems, though he put up a valiant fight for decades ,to survive to write and exhibit the artists he loved so much, he succumbed at age 81.Despite his ongoing battle , he was Director of 2 Museums , Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale (Now NSU Museum Fort Lauderdale), then MCA Denver(then MoCAD ), and was Curator of Contemporary Art at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, prior to that, while simultaneously, also a full time Professor of Art History at Wellesley College, in Wellesley, Mass. Ken's writing was published internationally in magazines,books, & journals, throughout his career. He is survived by daughter Kay, and wife Cynthia.

Photo Credit Wendy Seiler.

Photo below: Me talking with Moffett and telling him about what I do and offering my services. Very kind man. I believe Peter Reginato took this picture. Thanks!!!

I only recently got to meet KM through the yearly shows in Brooklyn at Sideshow Gallery. I offered to do an interview with him, but unfortunately the circumstances never conspired to allow it to happen. Now I find myself being quite saddened that I didn't get to tell his story. I can only hope that maybe there is someone out there that knew Moffett and decides to make a book on this man. Thanks Lucy Baker for keeping me abreast of what has been going on.

Wesley Kimler

I visited yesterday with Painter Wesley Kimler in his Chicago studio, and wanted to share this photo essay with you. I believe we spent about 4 hours talking about all kinds of things painters talk about when they get together. I got to spend some wonderful time around his collection of birds too. One of which is quite entertaining.

These paintings are so haunting in person. I told Wesley they reminded me of new versions from the Horrors of War, just this time not from Goya, but from Kimler.

And finishing up with my painting that I brought to share with Wesley. 

Max Frintrop at Lyles & King

One of the first galleries I knew I wanted to visit when I got to NYC this time was heading down to Forsyth and go to see Max Frintrop's paintings at Lyles & King. First thing I want to mention is the atmosphere of the gallery. Not many really have an atmosphere, they are just big ass rooms. This space has a character and rawness to it that really works with the paintings. You walk from outside down into this room with very low headroom. I mean VERY low. If you are over 6 feet tall you are going to walk around with your head down in the entry of this gallery. The big space is in the back of the gallery, walking down the hand hewed beams that make up the stairs is just totally engaging for me, I had to spend my time admiring the architecture of the space, and once that was taken in, I was then able to really take in the paintings.

Instead of giving you the typical art talk about painting. What I want to give you is more of a photo essay on these paintings, photos you won't see anywhere else, my own personal choices of details I thought you the viewer might find interesting. Hopefully getting you to desire to see these in person just as I did.

I personally feel that if critics like Harold Rosenberg had seen this, they would have been praising it. It's quite amazing action painting. Even though no one really uses that term anymore.

Text from Alex Bacon from the press release for the exhibition: "Lately Frintrop has been pushing the quality of liquidity inherent in his use of ink as his medium of choice. The resulting works are simultaneously pared down (without being reductive) and more spatial, in a pictorial sense. In some paintings forms tumble over one another, and rush towards the viewer, while in others a built up assemblage of marks are threatened by an aqueous shimmering that dissolves the legibility of its structure. In still other paintings a tight grouping of marks surge in a particular direction, upwards, and to left, right, or center. At times they even collide, causing a spectacular pictorial event to unfold near the center of the canvas."

There was something that made the viewing in the front room like snuggling up in a comfy blanket. I guess it was because of the low ceiling that the painting was forced to be in the middle of the wall and because of this, the viewing was much more like you might catch if you were in the artists studio, with the paintings propped up on paint cans. Really gives viewing in this room a direct and comfortable experience. Would love to personally make a nice 12 foot wide painting and put it there. 

Now go hop in your speedwagon and get down there, the exhibition closes June 5th.

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