$20 Suggested Donation

Open Studio hours: 12-6pm | Artist Talk at 6pm

Liz Collins creates a site-responsive installation of suspended lengths of her vividly patterned textiles that activate the Barn’s soaring volume and weathered architecture. Cascading from the rafters in rhythmic intervals, the fabrics will form a porous field of color and movement, shifting with light and air. The work draws on Collins’ long-standing exploration of pattern, repetition, and embodied making, transforming the rustic structure into a spectacular environment activated by the fabrics. Visitors will move among the hanging forms, experiencing the Barn as a dynamic spatial composition full of a particular type of element from Collins archive of art textiles.

Liz Collins is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist whose sustained experimentation with textile installation, sculpture, drawing, and performance has played a pivotal role in expanding the possibilities of contemporary fiber-based art. Her boundary-crossing practice, which challenges hierarchical distinctions between art and craft, is informed by her background as an eponymous knitwear fashion designer and an educator at institutions like RISD. Collins has presented solo exhibitions at major institutions including the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery and Touchstones Rochdale (UK), with a mid-career survey, Liz Collins: Motherlode, premiering at the RISD Museum in 2025–26. Her work has been widely exhibited in significant group exhibitions, notably the 60th Venice Biennale (2024) and Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction which traveled to MoMA, LACMA, and the National Gallery of Art. Recognized with awards such as an Anonymous Was a Woman Award and a United States Artists Fellowship, her pieces are held in major public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Museum of Arts and Design, and Museu de Arte de São Paulo in Brazil.