David Collins

The Acute Afternoon

2011

David Collins has an ongoing interest in space and memory. Many of Collins’ memories relate to his family’s history in inventing Cold War era technology. Personal recollections of sp...

David Collins was raised in Dallas, received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently lives and works in New York City. Collins has had numerous solo exhibitions i...

David Collins was raised in Dallas, received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently lives and works in New York City. Collins has had numerous solo exhibitions i...

David Collins was raised in Dallas, received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently lives and works in New York City. Collins has had numerous solo exhibitions i...

In this geometric abstract painting in acrylic on paper on linen mounted on panel, hard edge shapes in shades of blue, black, red and yellow are colorf...

Clean and precise, carefully ordered stripes and lines with orange and ochre stripes in a square shape against the neutral beige lined background. This contemporary abstract painting...

In this contemporary abstract painting in acrylic on linen mounted on a shaped panel by Elizabeth Gourlay, carefully ordered blocks of color in salmon, peach and mauve are luminous a...

In this contemporary painting in acrylic on linen mounted on a shaped panel, two vertical blocks of color in dark lapis blue and soft, mottled orange are luminous against thinner neutral sections of exposed linen. Signed, dated and titled on verso. Elizabeth Gourlay’s work is a meditation on color and form, a gradual yet progressive analysis leading to a complex vocabulary of shapes, color and line. Musical composition, emotional states and our collective subconscious resonate within bars, lines and blocks of color. The abstract forms emerge, layer and shift in precisely ordered, carefully composed rhythms. The artist contemplates the elements that make color in reduced forms come to life: size, flatness, relation to its edges, and how the presence of other colors affect how it is perceived. Gourlay draws inspiration from shapes found in everyday life and in her studio. The observed shapes either remain as they are or become simplified to their essential geometric elements. Subtleties in color, area, edge or orientation are the catalyst for emotive responses. Palette is minimized; the artist rarely uses a wide palette within one work. Rather, a broad range of colors are explored and then reduced. Gourlay investigates color properties: complementary or analogous color, value, saturation and color harmony vs. color anomaly. Elizabeth’s Gourlay’s work has been shown extensively throughout the United States. The artist was the recipient of numerous residencies, fellowships and awards including Artist in Residence at the studio of Sol LeWitt in Spoleto, Italy. Gourlay’s work has been written about in The New Criterion, Painters’ Table and Gorky’s Granddaughter, to name a few. Gourlay earned her MFA at Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, and her BA from Edinburgh...