Gaby Collins-Fernández
Photo by Kay Hickman
Gaby Collins-Fernández is an artist who navigates aesthetic inheritance by drawing from historical and personal image archives.
Known for her distinctive approach to mixed-media painting, her process begins digitally, creating photocollages that merge self-portraits and art historical images, extensively manipulated using Photoshop. These compositions take on a unique physicality as they are printed on unconventional materials like beach towels and chiffon, subsequently primed and painted with acrylic and oil. Through both process and form, her work explores the abstract languages of emotion, pop culture, repetition, and the resonance of images in our minds and online.
New York, NY
Born 1987, New York, NY
2012 MFA Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
2009 BA Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH