Nate Collins - BFA in Art from Texas Tech University
TTU Satellite Gallery at CASP
June 2018 First Friday Art Trail
6 PM – 9 PM, Friday, June 1st, 2018
Free and open to the public.
Landmark Arts at the Texas Tech University School of Art presents Nathan Collins's Millennial Pretense: Perception by Proxy at the TTU Satellite Gallery. The exhibition will be on view from June 1, 2018 to June 16, 2018. This exhibition will also be a part of the First Friday Art Trail for June 1, 2018. The exhibition will open to the public from 6-9 PM during FFAT.
In this exhibition, Nathan Collins, a graduating Texas Tech University School of Art student, explores our global issues and commonality of today by focusing his art on media, technology, and interpretations of the truth. His work is potently critical of the world's leaders and media, all the while it also explores how and why society continues down its path towards warring facts. Collins's art not only shows the confusion of today's news and technology, but the images attempt to showcase an unraveling of the human nature behind the chaos.
His images read like collages of thoughts and screen grabs, but they represent the confusing and altering 'facts' of our society. Yet, the work also turns a lens to the millennial audience, who are interpreters of this chaos, and often the scapegoats of our era, in order to create the distinction between a subject rooted in the 1970s (the Cold War era tactics) and the issues of today. Collins's work is 2D but his aims and theoretical discussion through images are purposefully complex, while at the same time readable.
Nathan Collins is a recent graduate from the Texas Tech University School of Art. He received his BFA in Studio Art, and studies photography and sculpture. Nathan is from Lubbock, Texas. He has recently participated in the 2018 Rising Eyes of Texas Exhibition curated by Rainey Knudson where he received third place. He has also participated in the 2018 Midwest Center for Photography Juried Exhibition, the flora 2018 Exhibition, and is active in exhibitions within the Lubbock First Friday Art Trail.
