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Artist Exhibitions:
December-February 2009: Solo
Show
at Worthington Municipal
Building through the
Worthington Arts Council.
Worthington, Ohio
April 2008: Group Show (AGORA)
at Junctionview Studios,
Columbus, Ohio
August 2005: Solo Show
at Studio ASH, Columbus, Ohio
September 2003: Inaugural
Group Show
at Studio ASH, Columbus, Ohio
March 2002: Group Show "Four
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Artist Statement for Jeffrey Collins
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Many new canvases fill the walls of my studio. A good portion of them have yet to really be started. Wood Putty is in the plastic containers, the color is in new glass containers that make it really easy to mix color without having to constantly checking the plastic container to see if the color looks to what I am desiring it to be. There's a new bag full of unstretched canvas in my closet that is begging to become paintings. My floor is covered with the rosin paper I use to help make sure the color doesn't drip onto the floors, though there is already little spots here and there with a little bits of red, blue, or green. It adds character to the floor and lets people who enter my studio know they are around a painter. I have a throw of old canvas tacked up to the floor and wall where I do the bulk of my painting before it visits the floor for it's final layer or layers of color. The throw is made from a section of old canvas I didn't think I would ever use. Not with the largeness of my older paintings. Though in the present it seems that small paintings are all I have made for the last two years. This piece of canvas is caked with pigments from paintings come and gone. It used to be fairly easy to walk upon, but lately it has become rough and jagged from old bits of wood filler and paint that has drenched the canvas and left me wanting to get myself a new piece of canvas to help keep paint from the junction of the floor and wall.
In preparing for this show, I have begun many experiments in size and scale of a painting. For the me of the past didn't want to work on anything smaller than 2FT Square. I now find much pleasure in making small 10" X 18" sized paintings. It really gives me ideas for new paintings that will become much larger and far more detailed. I am already planning a new diptych and even my second triptych, though this one will be much larger than my first triptych. For I have always had an affinity for multi-paneled paintings.
I thank you for your being here. May my paintings bring you pleasure and appreciation.
Jeffrey Collins
November 2008
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