Winter Speaker Series 2025: Liz Collins
February 8, 2025 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm At the Museum and Virtually on Vimeo
"A Textile Wonderland of Color and Pattern"
In July 2025, Liz Collins’ mid-career retrospective will open at the RISD Museum. In this lecture at Newport Art Museum, the artist will talk about the process of planning this exhibition and preview some of the works that will be featured. Through the presentation of select works, Collins will elucidate the different facets of her making methods and contexts that engage and inspire her.
The lecture will be held in person at the Museum and virtually on Vimeo, and will be followed by audience Q&A and tea reception.
Lecture recording will be available to subscribers and ticket holders.
About our Speaker
Liz Collins is an artist based in New York City known for pushing the boundaries of art and design in innovative and experimental work in fabric, yarn, and other materials and techniques associated with textile media. Whether in the form of textile, painting, drawing or installation, Collins frequently explores the dichotomy of structure and entropy—qualities inherent to textile that speak to the fissures present in broader architectural, political, and social structures.
Collins’ exhibitions include the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, and Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, curated by Lynne Cooke, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the National Gallery of 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.
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Eleanor Doumato
Joseph Gallichio
Susan Kieronski
Santiago Neville
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