At the Brodsky Center, Collins created Genesis, an edition of nine handmade paper works, along with an edition of two unique variants, Fractured/Smoldering and Fractured/Portal. Genesis recreates the artist’s first generative concept of her ongoing exploration around deconstructing knitted fabrics. The artist wove flat and seed yarns into handmade cotton pulp and then cut them to release a gravitational drip over and beyond the paper support. Fractured/Smoldering and Fractured/Portal extend this concept in size and color through rich but controlled stenciled layers of pigmented pulp.
Collins received a BFA and MFA in textiles at RISD in 1991 and 1999. Her work has been featured extensively nationally and internationally. Among Collins’s most recent exhibitions is the two-year-long evolving site-specific project documented in the monograph Liz Collins—Energy Field (2020) at the Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY.