Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Ashley Collins (born 1967) is an American Contemporary Painting Icon whose massive scaled paintings are found in blue chip collections and museums worldwide. Collins’ painful and lengthy journey from homelessness and abject poverty to acclaimed painter informs meaning into each of her deeply layered works. Collins is known in part for taking exhibitions to a new level, such as floating 8’x10’ works off of 50’ cranes and using fire, water and other elements as part of her exhibitions. Her journey from rags to riches has been one of the most painful but successful, in American Art. Although painting professionally since 1988, Collins first came to blue chip collector attention in the early 2000’s for her massive scaled contemporary works integrating portions of figurative horseheads amongst layers of collage, historical documents, steel, metal, and other mediums which Collins integrated into her painting combines; breaking price points for living female contemporary painters. “Collins has gone from being homeless and sleeping on concrete floors in pursuit of Artistic Success – and she has surely achieved it, her mega scale paintings including horse imagery [sic] command eye watering prices.” Robert Rauschenberg, upon seeing her works, found in them the pain, confidence and struggles of his (sic) own journey.. }
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- Ashley_Collins abstract "Ashley Collins (born 1967) is an American Contemporary Painting Icon whose massive scaled paintings are found in blue chip collections and museums worldwide. Collins’ painful and lengthy journey from homelessness and abject poverty to acclaimed painter informs meaning into each of her deeply layered works. Collins is known in part for taking exhibitions to a new level, such as floating 8’x10’ works off of 50’ cranes and using fire, water and other elements as part of her exhibitions. Her journey from rags to riches has been one of the most painful but successful, in American Art. Although painting professionally since 1988, Collins first came to blue chip collector attention in the early 2000’s for her massive scaled contemporary works integrating portions of figurative horseheads amongst layers of collage, historical documents, steel, metal, and other mediums which Collins integrated into her painting combines; breaking price points for living female contemporary painters. “Collins has gone from being homeless and sleeping on concrete floors in pursuit of Artistic Success – and she has surely achieved it, her mega scale paintings including horse imagery [sic] command eye watering prices.” Robert Rauschenberg, upon seeing her works, found in them the pain, confidence and struggles of his (sic) own journey.".