2024
Artists Luis Garcia-Nerey and Anke Schofield examine the boundaries between undomesticated animals and domesticated environments in their wondrous collaboration called KOLLABS. Each of their narrative paintings — which are typically mixed media works that feature wildlife photography, scraps of magazine print advertisements and more — explores the balance between humans and forest creatures, inviting viewers to reflect on their own relationships with nature.
KOLLABS was formed in 2007 by Miami, Florida-based Garcia-Nerey and Schofield, who lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia.
Born in 1973 in Santurce, Puerto Rico, Garcia-Nerey studied at Long Island University in New York and Miami’s New World School of the Arts. Schofield was born in 1972 in Ithaca, New York, and studied at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia where she obtained her BFA and MFA degrees.
In order to create their provocative works, the KOLLABS founders travel between studios in Miami and Atlanta. Together, they combine their individual artistic talents to produce their series of anthropomorphized animal paintings. For instance, in the mixed-media work Betty and Bea, a bear is portrayed sitting on a luxurious chair, interacting with a hummingbird, while Valery depicts a hawk balancing precariously on champagne labels.
Throughout the 2000s, KOLLABS has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States. The duo has also shown its works at several art fairs and museum shows including the Affordable Art Fair in Tribeca, New York, San Francisco Art Fair, Art Wynwood in Miami, Texas Contemporary Art Fair in Houston, the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee and the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
On 1stDibs, discover a selection of KOLLABS mixed-media art and paintings.
California
By Nemo Jantzen
Located in New York, NY
Thread is expertly wrapped around embedded nails to create a beautiful portrait of a woman. The distinct medium uses layering and gradients to create a unique sense of depth and text...
Glass, Resin, Wood Panel, Magazine Paper
Night Vision (Glass)
By Nemo Jantzen
Located in New York, NY
In the latest series, inspired by media, pop culture, and film Jantzen takes Neo-pointillism to the next level utilizing thousands collection of photography, cinematographic stills, ...
Wood Panel, Glass, Resin, Magazine Paper
Rio
By Nemo Jantzen
Located in New York, NY
Thread is expertly wrapped around embedded nails to create a beautiful portrait of a woman. The distinct medium uses layering and gradients to create a unique sense of depth and text...
Glass, Resin, Wood Panel, Magazine Paper
$2,600
H 24 in W 18 in
"Etched in Traditions" Portrait of a woman with flower crown in African dress
By Janice Frame
Located in Edgartown, MA
"As an African-American artist in today’s world, I embody the vast differences found in our collective backgrounds. I view them as cultural assets. We are always self discovering and...
Resin, Mixed Media, Panel
"Paradise City"
By Nemo Jantzen
Located in New York, NY
Thread is expertly wrapped around embedded nails to create a beautiful portrait of a woman. The distinct medium uses layering and gradients to create a unique sense of depth and text...
Glass, Resin, Wood Panel, Magazine Paper
$410
H 8 in Dm 8 in
Born to Love XXXX - Color Drenched Impasto Textured Heart Artwork on Wood Panel
By Cynthia Coulombe Bégin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Coulombe-Bégin's dynamic acrylic on canvas works seek to produce a metamorphic interpretation of the artist's inner identity. Her paintings make ample use of contrasting colors to cr...
Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
$410
H 8 in Dm 8 in
Divine Spark of Love XXXXX - Color Drenched Impasto Textured Heart Art on Wood
By Cynthia Coulombe Bégin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Coulombe-Bégin's dynamic acrylic on canvas works seek to produce a metamorphic interpretation of the artist's inner identity. Her paintings make ample use of contrasting colors to cr...
Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
On Hold|$1,800
H 23 in W 23 in D 1.5 in
"CBGB (Study)" Contemporary Abstract Colorful Concentric Circle Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful abstract contemporary circular painting by Houston, TX artist David Hardaker. Signed, titled, and dated by the artist on the reverse. Currently on view in "David Hardaker: R...
Enamel
$1,800
H 18 in W 18 in D 1 in
June, 2025 Contemporary Mixed Media Photography on Wood Panel, Ed 2/5, Blue Sky
Located in New york, NY
June, 2025 by Isabelle Schneider is a contemporary photographic mixed-media work with a Zen focus. The artist captures reflections of clouds and tree leaves against a window blind cr...
Resin, Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Archival Pigment
Amnesia
By Nemo Jantzen
Located in New York, NY
Thread is expertly wrapped around embedded nails to create a beautiful portrait of a woman. The distinct medium uses layering and gradients to create a unique sense of depth and text...
Glass, Resin, Wood Panel, Magazine Paper
Remington
By Kollabs
Located in Napa, CA
KOLLABS is a collaborative project between artists Luis Garcia Nerey and Anke Schofield. In their work, they create compositions juxtaposing undomest...
Resin, Panel
Harmony
By Kollabs
Located in Napa, CA
KOLLABS is a collaborative project between artists Luis Garcia Nerey and Anke Schofield. In their work, they create compositions juxtaposing undomesticated animals within domestic an...
Resin, Mixed Media, Panel
To The Ghosts Who Write History Books (Sinatra)
By Robert Mars
Located in Napa, CA
Robert Mars’ graphic compositions and rich colors provide an ideal medium in which to explore his fascination with the Golden Age of American popular culture and the icons of the 1950’s and 60’s. Drawing inspiration from the near-mythical fame that surrounded celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe or Audrey Hepburn before the instant and all-encompassing presence of the internet, Mars’ daring approach creates paintings with a nostalgic yet innovative vintage quality. Mars begins by defining borders and background planes of color with sheets of brown paper and then proceeds to layer paint and vintage paper ephemera...
Resin, Mixed Media, Panel
We Three Kings
By Robert Mars
Located in Napa, CA
Robert Mars’ graphic compositions and rich colors provide an ideal medium in which to explore his fascination with the Golden Age of American popular culture and the icons of the 195...
Resin, Panel
Scar Tissue
By Robert Mars
Located in Napa, CA
Robert Mars’ graphic compositions and rich colors provide an ideal medium in which to explore his fascination with the Golden Age of American popular culture and the icons of the 195...
Resin, Panel
Thief of Hearts
By Robert Mars
Located in Napa, CA
Robert Mars’ graphic compositions and rich colors provide an ideal medium in which to explore his fascination with the Golden Age of American popular culture and the icons of the 195...
Resin, Panel
