has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
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About me
collin allen (allenworks)
My mind is always racing with new ideas for paintings and sculptures. Many are visions of things I have imagined and would like to see come to life in an art form, but many of the ideas come from the materials themselves. I use recycled products for myriad reasons – cost, availability, environmental – but the main reason is my source of inspiration. I have always looked at things from a different perspective and see the beauty in everyday items that many people take for granted. Not only are these things taken for granted when being used for their initial purpose, but they are easily and quickly discarded when they are no longer needed or useful. The things I create are gleaned from a childhood of looking at broken windows, and cracked door frames, and discarded beer bottle caps and seeing not what it had been but what it could be. My mission is to morph the discards of life into something beautiful and intriguing. And maybe to remind people of the importance of looking at things from a different angle every now and then.
- Biography
Collin Allen a native Wichitan has been active in the local arts community for more than twenty years. He has been involved in the arts programs at both Butler County Community College, Wichita Area Technical Collage, and Wichita State University and expanded his knowledge base in sculpture, painting, and photography. While exploring industrial methods of production. Collin was an artist in residence at the Go Away Garage at 508 S. Commerce St. Wichita Ks. for over eight years and has been part of multiple group and solo art shows. In addition, he has been part of the Wichita Arts Alliance. Currently Collin is using Go Create at Wichita State University as his main studio working on new processes to create art in engineering environment with industrial tools. Collin has also been commissioned many times for large works for commercial property’s nationally and for collectors
- Exhibitions
2007 to 2016 Artist in Residence, Go Away Garage
May 2008 The Salon des Refuse (Group Show)
· Commerce Gallery, 508 S. Commerce, Wichita, KS 67202
· Redline Gallery, 401 E. Douglas, Wichita, KS 67202June 2008 Allenworks, Solo Show
· Commerce Gallery, 508 S. Commerce, Wichita, KS 67202August 2008 The Outsiders Show (Group Show)
· City Arts, 334 N. Mead, Wichita, KS 67202October 2008 The Robot Show (Group Show)
· Go Away Garage, 508 S. Commerce, Wichita, KS 67202December 2010 The Black Light Show (Group Show)
· Go Away Garage, 508 S. Commerce, Wichita, KS 67202June 2011 Allenworks, Man Made Show
· Go Away Garage, 508 S. Commerce, Wichita, KS 67202Fall 2011 Behind The Goggles (Group Show)
City Arts, 334 N. Mead, Wichita, KS 67202October 2012 Use Your Wood
· City Arts, 334 N. Mead, Wichita, KS 67202March 2015
Naked Cellphone Photos
· The Jones Gallery, 414 S. Commerce St. Wichita, KS 67202March 2015
Naked Cellphone Photos
· The Jones Gallery, 414 S. Commerce St. Wichita, KS 67202
· Naked Cellphone Photo Book, April 2018June 2018
Liggett Studio
Xpressions of Sexual Freedom
Tulsa, OK- Announcements
Naked Cellphone Photos is a creative project to make a published book that explores the ways people share private identities and their own bodies through text messages, social media, and other digital platforms. Using images and text, Naked Cellphone Photos will include text and image documentation of my interactions with people who meet me in the studio—modeling for an artist—to allow me to photograph them in response to a call for participation. Naked Cellphone Photos explores the psychology of people who are willing to share images of their bodies, but not their names, with strangers in person and/or virtually.
The human form has been a central subject throughout the history of art; in using a cellphone for photos, the human form is represented in a different way and a different context.
The project explores aspects of the use of digital photography to take and share private photos and create for themselves a kind of anonymous attention. The project asks questions: Why is there a need to share in this way? Why are people interested in making themselves vulnerable by posing for a stranger? What are the risks from this kind of exposure? Has our understanding of ourselves changed due to digital content, including social media and virtual platforms? Using cellphones to make fine art is unusual; the technology does not lend itself to large-format printing. Typical photography books of nudes feature traditional photographic methods that use high-end, expensive equipment. An important aspect of the project is the widespread nature of this type of documentation, a form that people produce prolifically on social media, the internet, etc. The creation of the work represents a new direction in contemporary imagery and photography.- Publications
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