I am exploring human mark-making and erasure as both generative and disruptive processes. Working in acrylic on yupo paper, I create a number of gestural additive marks and immediately disrupt those marks using fabricated tools to subtract and delete, leaving pattern in the material absence, to yield a depth of field and illusionary spatiality within the super flat plastic substrate. These synthetic and formally abstract spaces allude to systems, infrastructure, topography, psycho-geography, pattern and disruption, and demonstrate a shared agency between human action, tools and materiality.

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Artist Profile

Born: 1987

Hometown: San Mateo

Based in: San Francisco

Collin is a San Francisco Bay Area artist, poet, and academic. He received his BA from The Evergreen State College with a focus in Critical Geography and Relational Aesthetics, and his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute with a focus in painting, photography, and new genres. His work broadly examines how human relationships with non-human objects and technologies inform the ideologies that produce the spaces we inhabit.

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