LIZ COLLINS AT POWERHOUSE ARTS
Included in the official calendar of New York Textile Month, beginning on Thursday, September 11, Rainbow Mountains: Storm (2024) will be on view in the Lobby of Powerhouse Arts (PHA), located at 322 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, NYC. The work is part of the series that artist Liz Collins presented at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Stranieri Ovunque — Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa.
The exhibition extends into the PHA Loft, radically transformed to host Tundra Garden: one of the artist’s most ambitious installations to date. The work consists of nine monumental textile panels covering more than 193 square feet, the result of a collaboration with The Alpha Workshops at PHA. The installation is further enriched by custom furnishings designed by New York–based Dune, which help reconfigure the space into a public lounge, conceived as a place for social engagement and collective experience during the international performing arts festival Powerhouse: International.
As evidence of Collins’s ongoing research in the field of printmaking and textiles, this fall a limited edition print will be published through the PHA Print Publishing Program. The installations will remain open to the public until December 2025.
At the same time, PHA is also inaugurating the exhibition Body Grounds: The Intimacy of Memory, Myth, and Loss, which brings together Lauren Cohen, Stephanie Santana, Jacob Olmedo, and Pacifico Silano—four former artists-in-residence at the Ace Hotel, presented as part of PHA’s most recent year-long curatorial collaboration.
The works on view critically examine the ways in which identity, personal narrative, and cultural memory are shaped by systems of power, dynamics of trauma, and processes of resilience. Through approaches ranging from humor to mythology, from materiality to the representation of loss, each artist identifies the body as a privileged site of inquiry: a space where intimacy is continually redefined and memory emerges both as an inherited burden and as a locus of resistance. The exhibition will be on view through October 9, 2025.
