Andy Collins

Works and biography

In this painting, overlapping and intertwined shapes in pale yellow, green, and pink are accented and outlined by darker linear elements that sinuously snake in and around these lighter areas…

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…

For his first solo show, emerging painter Andy Collins (who was still in school when he was spotted by art dealer Audiello) shows considerable facility, even charm, but also a certain lack of gravity often associated with less seasoned artists…