MICHAEL ROQUE COLLINS
WORKS ON PAPER
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Michael Roque Collins Works On Paper
JUNE 10 - JULY 10.2016
LewAllenGalleries Railyard Arts District | 1613 Paseo de Peralta | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | tel 505.988.3250 www.lewallengalleries.com | info@lewallengalleries.com cover: Inland Mountain Journey Series: Apparition in Woodlands Clearing, 2015-16, Watercolor
on paper, 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches
Michael Roque Collins Works on Paper Michael Roque Collins, through decades of creating masterful post-symbolist art, has become renowned for his often large-scale impressionist canvases. With Works on Paper, LewAllen Galleries presents a fascinating exhibition of works that illuminates the artist’s potency with a wide diversity of materials. The watercolors and related India ink drawings included in the show are notable as the direct and original iterations of the artist’s first impressions of both place and imaginative response, typically rendered quickly and in the moment. Packed with rapid, brushy strokes of diluted pigment in varying viscosities on thick archival paper, these small paintings often form the rough basis for what later become larger works in oil on linen. The watercolors reveal a kind of archaeology of mind as the artist’s unmediated creative impressions. Also included are highly abstracted paintings in oil and resin on photographic material. They provide some of his most mysterious, yet intimate artistic expressions. Collins acknowledges a variety of influences, including Max Beckmann, Charles Burchfield, and the Hudson River School. Primitive art objects collected by his father gave him early exposure to strong and direct expressions of the supernatural within the natural environment of daily life. Though these influences were important to the developing foundations of his art, his distinctive style originates from his personal conception of light, value, color and lines. Ideas emerge from his dreams, revealing visions of the conscious and unconscious mind. Born in Texas in 1955, Collins earned a BFA from the University of Houston in 1978 and later an MFA in painting from Southern Methodist University. Now in the sixth decade of a remarkably productive career, his paintings have been shown in more than fifty international solo exhibitions and scores of group shows since 1974. They also are included in numerous important public and private collections.
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Venetian Series: Sailing Toward the Island of the Mausoleum, 2015-16, Oil and resin on black and white photograph, 13 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches 3
Inland Mountain Journey Series: Forest Totems, 2015-16, Watercolor on paper, 8 x 10 inches
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Inland Mountain Journey Series: Dark Blooming, 2015-16, Watercolor on paper, 8 x 10 inches
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Inland Mountain Journey Series: Flowing Through the Ruins, 2015-16, Watercolor on paper, 8 x 10 inches 6
Inland Mountain Journey Series: Beyond the Pleasure Pond, 2015-16, Watercolor on paper, 8 x 10 inches 7
Inland Mountain Journey: Inland Grotto, 2015-16, Watercolor on paper, 10 x 21 1/2 inches
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Inland Mountain Journey Series: Falling Before the Ruins, 2015-16, Watercolor on paper, 8 x 10 inches
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Inland Mountain Journey Series: Inland Totem, 2015-16, Watercolor on paper, 14 x 10 inches
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Inland Mountain Journey Series: Apparition in the Woodlands Clearing, 2015-16, Watercolor on paper, 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches 11
Inland Mountain Journey Series: Running From the Illuminant, 2015-16, Watercolor on paper, 8 x 10 inches
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Inland Mountain Journey Series: The Pond, 2015-16, Watercolor on paper, 8 x 10 inches
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Venetian Series: Blooming Beyond the Archipelago, 2012-16, Watercolor on paper, 30 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches 14
Inland Mountain Journey Series: The Reclamation, 2015-16, Watercolor on paper, 8 x 10 inches
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Inland Mountain Journey Series: Moving Through Inland Waters, 2015-16, Oil and resin on black and white photograph, 13 1/2 x 19 1/4 inches 16
Inland Mountain Journey Series: Moving Through Two Standing, 2015-16, Oil and resin on black and white photograph, 8 x 10 inches 17
Inland Mountain Journey Series: Flowing Past the Remnants, 2016, Oil and resin on black and white photograph, 13 1/2 x 19 1/4 inches 18
Inland Mountain Journey Series: Lone Standing, 2015-16, Oil and resin on black and white photograph, 8 x 10 inches 19
Inland Mountain Journey Series: Classical Forest Exit, 2015-16, Oil and resin on black and white photograph, 8 1/2 x 11 inches 20
Inland Mountain Journey Series: Glimpsing the Forest Cathedral, 2015-16, Oil and resin on black and white photograph, 8 x 10 inches 21
Inland Mountain Journey Series: Upland Meadow, 2015-16, Oil and resin on black and white photograph, 8 1/2 x 11 inches 22
Venetian Series: Flower Wall, 2016, Oil and resin on black and white photograph, 13 x 19 inches 23
Venetian Series: Canal’s Divide, 2015-16, India ink over watercolor on paper, 8 x 10 inches 24
Inland Mountain Journey Series: Woodland Portal, 2015-16, India ink over watercolor on paper, 8 x 10 inches 25
Inland Mountain Journey Series: Beneath the Basilica, 2015-16, India ink over watercolor on paper, 8 x 10 inches 26
Inland Mountain Journey Series: Bending Towards the Illuminant, 2015-16, India ink over watercolor on paper, 8 x 10 inches 27
Inland Mountain Journey Series: The Clearing, 2015-16, India ink over watercolor on paper, 10 x 8 inches 28
Inland Mountain Journey Series: Spiral Emanations, 2015-16, India ink over watercolor on paper, 10 x 8 inches 29
Inland Mountain Journey Series: Winter Lake, 2015-16, Watercolor on paper, 7 1/2 x 10 inches 30
Venetian Series: Hemingway’s Market, 2015-16, Mixed media on black and white photograph, 8 x 11 inches 31
Venetian Series: Venetian Moorings, 2015, Mixed media on black and white photograph, 6 x 11 inches 32
Venetian Series: Echoing Torcello, 2015-16, Mixed media on black and white photograph, 8 x 10 inches 33
Venetian Series: Descending the Bridge, 2015, Mixed media on black and white photograph, 11 x 8 inches 34
Venetian Series: Crossing Realto, 2015-16, Mixed media on black and white photograph, 8 x 11 inches 35
Inland Mountain Journey Series: Descending From the Temple, 2015-16, Watercolor on paper, 8 x 10 inches 36
Michael Roque Collins
b. 1955
EDUCATION
2003
Gallery 101 in conjunction with Red Bud Gallery, Houston, TX
2001
University of Saint Thomas Gallery, Houston, TX
1998
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, MFA in Painting
2000
Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX
1984
University of Houston, Houston, TX, Post Baccalaureate
1999
Houston Art League, Retrospective Solo Exhibition,
Studies in Drawing and Painting
Houston, TX
1978
University of Houston, Houston, TX, BFA
Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
1973
Lowell Collins School of Art, Houston, TX
1998
Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX
1960
Museum of Fine Arts Art School, Houston, TX
1997
Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston, TX
1996
Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
1995
McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
1994
C.G. Jung Center, Houston, TX
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016
LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
1993
McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
2015
Holocaust Memorial Center, Detroit, MI
1991
McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
2015
Houston Holocaust Museum, Houston, TX
1990
McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
2015
LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
1989
Jung Center, Houston, TX
2013
LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
Framboyan Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2012
La Galerie K, Paris, France
McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
Zeitkunst Galerie, Halle, Germany
1987
Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
Carillon Gallery, Ft. Worth, TX
1986
Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
Kilgore College, Kilgore, TX
1983
Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
2011
LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
2009
LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
UAC Gallery (curated by Jim Edwards), HBU, Houston, TX
2008
G Gallery, Houston, TX
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
Felipe Cossio del Pomar Cultural Center, Lima, Peru
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
Munchskirche Museum, Salzweddel, Germany
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
2007
LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Ellen Noel Museum, Odessa, TX
Gerald Peters Galleries, Dallas, TX
J. Wayne Stark University Gallery, College Station, TX
G Gallery, Houston, TX
Lowe Museum of Art, Miami, FL
2006
Montgomery College Art Center
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2005
Corpus Christi Art Center, Corpus Christi, TX
Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX
2004
Bacardi Museum, Santiago, Cuba
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
St. Thomas University, Jones Hall Gallery, Houston, TX
Ellen Noel Art Museum, Odessa, TX
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
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Railyard Arts District | 1613 Paseo de Peralta | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | tel 505.988.3250 www.lewallengalleries.com | info@lewallengalleries.com Š 2016 LewAllen Contemporary LLC Artwork Š Michael Roque Collins