Bethany Collins
Bethany Collins is an artist living and working in Chicago, Illinois who works in drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures, and art books. Collins' works, which incorporate fractured or illegible phrases either punishingly erased or arduously rendered, were featured in a solo exhibition at University Galleries in 2019, Bethany Collins: A Pattern or Practice.
Background
MFA, drawing and painting, Georgia State University; Atlanta, GA (2012)
BA, studio art and visual journalism, University of Alabama; Tuscaloosa, AL (2007)
Glasgow School of Art, Capstone International semester abroad; Glasgow, Scotland (2005)
Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship; Chicago, IL (2019)
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; New York, NY (2015)
Normal Editions Projects
Collins participated in a collaborative project with Normal Editions Workshop with partial sponsorship from University Galleries during a short-term residency February 3-7, 2020
Bethany Collins drawing on mylar during the collaborative print project at Normal Editions in 2020.
Resources
Artist Bethany Collins begins collaborative project with Normal Editions, February 2020
Prints from Normal Editions
"and love all hearts entwine (God Bless Our Sunday School)"
Bethany Collinstwo-color lithograph
22 1/2" x 30 1/2"
copyright 2020
N.E.W. work # 20-102a
"and love all hearts entwine (God Bless Our Sunday School)" II
Bethany Collinstwo-color lithograph
22 1/2" x 30 1/2"
copyright 2020
N.E.W. work # 20-102b
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"all hearts beneath the sun (Let War's Tempests Cease)"
Bethany Collinstwo-color lithograph
22 1/2" x 30 1/2"
copyright 2020
N.E.W. work # 20-101
Bethany_Collins_3_50
Collaboration with Bethany Collins
Bethany Collins drawing
Bethany Collins begins a drawing on mylar at Normal Editions during the collaborative project
talking with students
Bethany Collins talks with a class of students visiting Normal Editions to see and hear about her project as it develops
Bethany Collins drawing
Bethany Collins applying tusche wash to mylar during the artist's drawing process
reviewing materials
Bethany Collins tests of different drawing materials on mylar
testing drawing materials
Morgan Price and Bethany Collins examine and test different materials
mixing stick tusche for drawing
Bethany Collins mixing up stick tusche and testing it on mylar
collaboration
Morgan Price and Bethany Collins discuss options regarding tusche wash drawing on mylar as the drawing is in progress
color consultation
Bethany Collins considers samples of three red ink mixtures with the beginning of her drawing on mylar
students with Bethany Collins
Bethany Collins (seated) welcomes students to observer the collaborative project in progress
consulting notes
Bethany Collins consults her notes during the drawing process
inspecting mylars
Bethany Collins and Morgan Price inspecting drawings on mylar over the light table while preparing to expose photo-lithographic plates
mixing ink
Peytin Fitzgerald mixing ink with visiting artist Bethany Collins.
mixing ink colors
Bethany Collins, Peytin Fitzgerald, and Veda Rives Aukerman discussing ink selections during the collaboration.
more ink mixing
Veda Rives Aukerman and Peytin Fitzgerald mixing ink for color trial proofing sessions during the collaboration with Bethany Collins.
printing the first drawing
Nicci Arnold, Bethany Collins, and Lisa Lofgren observe the printing of the first plate for Bethany's project. Peytin Fitzgerald is the sponger for printer Morgan Price.
first layer (dark red ink) roller roll up
Morgan Price prepares the ink roller by rolling up the dark red ink for the first layer
rolling out ink
Close-up view of the ink slab while Veda Rives Aukerman rolls out ink
rolling and sponging
Morgan Price rolling out ink and Veda Rives Aukerman sponging the lithographic plate for run #1.
titling version 2
Bethany Collins writing the title on the "Right to Print" impression for version two
Two impressions signed "Right to Print"
Veda Rives Aukerman, Bethany Collins, Peytin Fitzgerald, and Erika Shiba stand with two impressions signed "Right to Print" for editions to be printed later
signing selected impression
Bethany Collins signing "Right to Print" on the selected impression to print in an edition
titling the print
Bethany Collins writing the title on the "Right to Print" impression