Liz Collins: Mischief – a Mid-career Retrospective

Video (1:22:30): Liz Collins: Mischief at Touchstone Rochdale, UK, 1 October 2022 – 8 January 2023. Artist Liz Collins and curator Julia Bryan-Wilson join Rail contributor Ksenia M. Soboleva for a conversation. The Booklyn Rail zoom session ends with a poetry reading by Rebecca Teich.

Biographies courtesy of Brooklyn Rail

Liz Collins — Multimedia artist Liz Collins works fluidly between art and design, with emphasis and expertise in textiles. Liz’s solo exhibitions and installations have been presented at Museum of Arts and Design, the Tang Museum, Luis de Jesus Los Angeles, among others. Collins’ honors include a USA Fellowship, a MacColl Johnson Fellowship, Foundation for/ Contemporary Arts & ArtistRelief grants, Drawing Center Open Sessions. In 2020, the Tang Museum released Liz Collins Energy Field, Collins’ first major publication. Next year several of her works will be included in Lynne Cooke’s upcoming survey show about textiles and abstract art, and an expanded version of Mischief, Collins’ mid-career retrospective at Touchstones Rochdale will open at the RISD Museum in 2025 with a major publication.

Julia Bryan-Wilson — Curator and critic Julia Bryan-Wilson, PhD, is Professor of LGBTQ Art History at Columbia University. She is the author of multiple books, including Fray: Art and Textile Politics (University of Chicago, 2017, a New York Times best art book of the year and winner of the Frank Jewett Mather Award, the Robert Motherwell Book Award, and the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize). Her book on Louise Nevelson is forthcoming from Yale University Press in 2023. She was a 2019-20 Guggenheim Fellow, and her research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center, and others.

Ksenia M. Soboleva — New York-based writer and art historian Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva specializes in queer art and culture. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, with a dissertation titled “Fragments: Art, AIDS, and Lesbian Identity in the United States.” Her writings have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, Hyperallergic, art-agenda, and various exhibition catalogues. She has curated exhibitions at Candice Madey Gallery, La MaMa Galleria, and Assembly Room. Soboleva was the 2020-2021 Jan and Marica Vilcek Curatorial Fellow at the Guggenheim Museum, where she assisted in organizing the Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks exhibition. She is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender and LGBTQ+ History at the New York Historical Society.

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