Tricia Collins

Tricia Collins is an American art critic, art gallerist and curator of contemporary art. She was half of the curatorial team Collins & Milazzo, who co-published and co-edited Effects : Magazine for New Art Theory from 1982 to 1984.^[1] She later ran the art galleries Grand Salon, Tricia Collins Grand Salon, and Tricia Collins Contemporary Art in New York City until the year 2000.^[2]

Biography

Born in Miami, Collins grew up in Tallahassee, Florida and moved to New York City in 1979. In 1980 she moved to the East Village, where she established her reputation.^[3]

Collins & Milazzo

In 1984, Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo^[4] began working together as curators to transform the group show into a critical statement.^[5] Her exhibitions and critical writings with Collins & Milazzo brought to prominence a new generation of artists in the 1980s.^[6] It was their exhibitions and writings that originally fashioned the theoretical context for a new kind of Post-conceptual art that argued simultaneously against Neo-Expressionism and Picture-Theory Art.^[7] It was through this context that the work of many of the artists associated with Neo-Conceptualism (or what the critics reductively called Simulationism and Neo Geo) was first brought together.^[8]

Art publications

• Radical Consumption and the New Poverty, Collins & Milazzo, (New York: New Observations, 1987) ISSN 0737-5387
• Art at the End of the Social, Collins & Milazzo, with a Swedish translation by Stefan Sandelin (Malmö, Sweden: The Rooseum, 1988) ISBN 0-945295-03-0
• Jonathan Lasker: A Conversation with Collins & Milazzo and 13 Studies for a Painting Entitled "Cultural Promiscuity" (Rome: Gian Enzo Sperone, 1989)
• Hyperframes: A Post-Appropriation Discourse in Art (“The Yale Lectures”), Collins & Milazzo, translated by Giovanna Minelli (Vol I), and by Giovanni Minelli, Marion Laval-Leantet and Benôit Mangin (Vol II) (Paris: Editions Antoine Candau, 1989 and 1990). ISBN 2-908139-00-6
• The Last Decade: American Artists of the ’80s, Collins & Milazzo, (New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1990)
• Who Framed Modern Art or the Quantitative Life of Roger Rabbit, Collins & Milazzo (New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1991)
• Sal Scarpitta: New Works, Collins & Milazzo, (New York: Annina Nosei, in cooperation with Leo Castelli, 1991)

See also

• Collins & Milazzo Exhibitions
• Post-conceptual art
• Postmodern art

References

1. Alison Pearlman, Unpackaging Art of the 1980s, University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 116
2. Tricia Collins Contemporary Art
3. Allan McCollum interview with Collins & Milazzo
4. Amy Virshup (1988-01-25). "Get Me Rewrite" - New York Magazine. New York Media, LLC. pp. 29–. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
5. Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College Receives Donation of the Papers of Influential Curator Tricia Collins
6. Alison Pearlman, Unpackaging Art of the 1980s, University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 116
7. Allan McCollum interview with Collins & Milazzo
8. Collins & Milazzo at specific object