{"product_id":"romance-of-electricity-mixed-media-metallic-painting-woman-artist","title":"Romance of Electricity, Mixed Media Metallic Painting Woman Artist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H: 14.75, W: 21.25 IN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVivien Abrams Collens is a mid-career abstract artist born in Cleveland, Ohio, whose current practice includes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esite specific installations, sculpture and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epainting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter graduating with a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, she studied in San Miguel de Allende Mexico for two years, receiving an MFA from Institute Allende.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpon returning to the US, she felt out of touch with art being done by her peers, and decided\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshe would have to live in the USA or be an expatriate artist living in another country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRenting a studio in Cleveland, she supported herself by working at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Institute of Art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter achieving regional recognition for her work, relief wall constructions, and shaped \/ constructed painting installations,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe stimulation of the NYC art world and opportunities brought her to NYC in 1977.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer early NYC works (signed Vivien Abrams) were widely shown in NYC and elsewhere in the 70s and 80s and many are in museum and corporate collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eApproaching the end of her childbearing years, she married, had two children and took her husband's surname. During the following years of family responsibility,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVivien continued her studio practice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebut agreed to few exhibition opportunities. In 2015 Vivian Collens began exhibiting again, with her “Urban Studies and City Blocks “solo exhibition at the Rockefeller Center headquarters of Gensler. Included were City Blocks,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eher first freestanding sculptures,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ealong with her Urban Studies paintings from the past few years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe then began developing larger sculptures focusing on urban architecture and energy. These led to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea dialogue with the environment and public sculpture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCollens installed an 18' high sculpture for the Cary Hill Sculpture Park in Salem, NY, and completed installation of a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16\"high\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewelded aluminum commissioned sculpture for the permanent collection of the Kenner Sculpture Garden in New Orleans. Vivian Abrams Collins paintings about urban environments use multiple perspectives , geometry, pattern, color and line to evoke urban experiences of architecture and changing views as one moves through the city in subways, cars, escalators and elevators and sees the city from different vantage points. There is a synergy between her paintings and 3 dimensional works The\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edrawings and paintings always have been springboards for various series of relief wall constructions such as this 1979 construction and more recently, sculptural installations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628262850858,"sku":"a_13402152S1","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/4021\/3802\/files\/mobilejpegupload_C7420313A81443CCB550768B00854673_master_08d54a4a-ee7c-459c-97ae-134fc0fbd49c.jpg?v=1780507740","url":"https:\/\/lionsgallery.com\/products\/romance-of-electricity-mixed-media-metallic-painting-woman-artist","provider":"Lions Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}