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.
Quest
By Kristina Grace
Located in Westport, CT
This beautiful blue and white dimensional butterfly piece is made of wood panel, butterflies, acrylics and bioresins. The artist, Kristina Grace, re...
Resin, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Venice
By Nemo Jantzen
Located in New York, NY
Content: photographs, glass spheres, resin on wood panel. In the latest series, inspired by media, pop culture, and film Jantzen takes Neo-pointillism to the next level utilizing th...
Glass, Resin, Wood Panel, Photographic Paper
Boogie Woogie
By Nemo Jantzen
Located in New York, NY
Content: photographs, glass spheres, resin on wood panel. In the latest series, inspired by media, pop culture, and film Jantzen takes Neo-pointillism to the next level utilizing th...
Glass, Resin, Wood Panel, Photographic Paper
Face to Face
By Nemo Jantzen
Located in New York, NY
Content: photographs, glass spheres, resin on wood panel. In the latest series, inspired by media, pop culture, and film Jantzen takes Neo-pointillism to the next level utilizing th...
Glass, Resin, Wood Panel, Photographic Paper
Blue Chip
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, ...
Glass, Resin, Wood Panel, Photographic Paper
5th Ave
By Nemo Jantzen
Located in New York, NY
Nemo Jantzen, born 1970 in The Haque, studied art, design and photography at the RTO Art Academy in Rotterdam. After his studies, he moved to Antwerp to work as a graphic designer an...
Glass, Resin, Wood Panel, Photographic Paper
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
“Bloom” (Volcanic sand in resin)
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
"Cream" (black edition)
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
"Amnesia" Lightbox
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
Fisher
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, Panel
Luca
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, Panel
Banks
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
Bradford
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, Panel
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
From Americas Best Loved (Marilyn)
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. He selectively sands segments of the layers, allowing specific portions of the underpainting to shine through, creating the sensation that the viewer is getting glimpses through a window into the Golden Age of America. By incorporating actual pieces of print from the eras he so adores and sealing it all under shining, impenetrable resin, Mars’s artworks transform into physical remembrances of a period in America’s past so loved and idolized, yet will forever remain trapped in history. A graduate of Parsons School of Design in New York, his artwork was selected for the Absolut Vodka Blank campaign alongside Damien Hirst, and his largest sized piece to date was acquired by Philip Morris/Altria for their corporate headquarters in Virginia. In 2015 Mars was chosen for the cover of Neiman Marcus’ May Book, while CocaCola purchased several existing works and ordered commissions for a world tour celebrating the 100-year anniversary of their trademark bottle shape, in which his artwork was spotlighted. Mars is a featured artist for a custom high end wallpaper and tile series with Kari Whitman...
Resin, Panel
