East End Books Ptown presents: Liz Collins "Motherlode" in conversation w/ Eileen Myles "A Working Life" 8/1 at 6pm
Tickets: Liz Collins "Motherlode" in conv. w/ Eileen Myles "A Working Life" Tickets, Fri, Aug 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
Queer feminism, fine art, and fashion: the fascinating dynamic textile world of Liz Collins
This groundbreaking volume positions Liz Collins as a singular figure who not only synthesizes fine art, craft, and fashion and textile design, but also fiercely advocates for queer and feminist politics. This book complements the first major survey of the artist's work in an American museum.
Edited by Kate Irvin, the publication includes additional essays, interviews, and contributions by Glenn Adamson, Octavia Bürgel, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Zoe Latta, and Eileen Myles.
About Liz Collins:
LIZ COLLINS is an NYC based artist known for her dynamic fiber works that vary in scale and form. Collins has collaborated with design brands on collections of functional textiles, and produced large scale public art works, installations, and performances.
Her solo exhibitions and installations have been at the Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), the Tang Museum (Saratoga Springs, NY), Candice Madey (NYC), Luis de Jesus (Los Angeles, CA), Rossana Orlandi (Milan, Italy), and Touchstones Rochdale (England), among others. Collins has been in dozens of group shows over the past 20 years, including at New York institutions the New Museum, the Drawing Center, and the Leslie Lohman Museum, and at LACMA, the Addison Gallery, ICA/Boston, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Collins’ honors include a USA Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, Drawing Center Open Sessions program, Two Trees Cultural Subsidy Studio Program, and an Anonymous Was A Woman Fellowship. Collins’ large tapestries were included in the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, and three of her works are featured in Lynne Cooke’s “Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction”, currently at MoMA in NYC.
Collins’ mid-career retrospective just opened at the RISD Museum (Providence, RI) with an accompanying monograph and will run through January, 2026. Liz Collins is represented by Candice Madey gallery in New York and is a long time visitor to Provincetown.
Kate Irvin is a curator of costume and textiles at the RISD Museum. Her projects include Inherent Vice, Repair and Design Futures, and Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion.
Contributor Bio: Irvin, Kate
Kate Irvin is a curator of costume and textiles at the RISD Museum. Her projects include Inherent Vice, Repair and Design Futures, and Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion.
Contributor Bio: Adamson, Glenn
Glenn Adamson is a curator, writer, and historian based in New York and London. He has previously been director of the Museum of Arts and Design and head of research at the V&A. Adamson's publications include Thinking Through Craft, The Craft Reader, Postmodernism: Style and Subversion (with Jane Pavitt), The Invention of Craft, Art in the Making (with Julia Bryan-Wilson), Fewer Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects, Objects: USA 2020, Craft: An American History, and A Century of Tomorrows.
EILEEN MYLES (they/them) came to New York from Boston in 1974 to be a poet.
Their books include A Working Life, Pathetic Literature, For Now (an essay/talk about writing), Evolution, Afterglow (a dog memoir), I Must Be Living Twice: new and selected poems, and Chelsea Girls. The Trip, their super-8 puppet road film can be seen on YouTube. Eileen has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was recently elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters. They live in New York and Marfa, TX
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