Tricia Collins

Tricia Collins is an American art critic, art gallerist and curator of contemporary art. She was half of the curatorial project Collins & Milazzo, where she co-published and co-edited Effects : Magazine for New Art Theory from 1982 to 1984.[1] She later ran the art galleries Grand Salon and Tricia Collins Contemporary Art in New York City until the year 2000.[2]

Biography

Collins grew up in Tallahassee, Florida and moved to New York City in 1979. In 1980 she moved to the East Village, from where she established her reputation.[3]

Collins and Milazzo

In 1984, she and her husband Richard Milazzo[4] began working together as curators to transform the group show into a critical statement.[5] Her exhibitions and critical writings with Collins & Milazzo brought to prominence a new generation of artists in the 1980s.[6] It was their exhibitions and writings that originally fashioned the theoretical context for a new kind of Post-conceptual art that argued simultaneously against Neo-Expressionism and Picture-Theory Art.[7] It was through this context that the work of many of the artists associated with Neo-Conceptualism (or what the critics reductively called Simulationism and Neo Geo) was first brought together.[8]

Art publications

See also

References

  1. Alison Pearlman, Unpackaging Art of the 1980s, University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 116
  2. Tricia Collins Contemporary Art
  3. Allan McCollum interview with Collins & Milazzo
  4. Amy Virshup (1988-01-25). "Get Me Rewrite" - New York Magazine. New York Media, LLC. pp. 29–. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  5. Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College Receives Donation of the Papers of Influential Curator Tricia Collins
  6. Alison Pearlman, Unpackaging Art of the 1980s, University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 116
  7. Allan McCollum interview with Collins & Milazzo
  8. Collins & Milazzo at specific object