Anne Collier was born in Los Angeles and is currently based in New York. She received her B.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, and her M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. While her work might on the surface be read as canny critiques of photography and images as they proliferate in popular culture, it often belies deep bio­graphical roots and personal investigations. There is a pathos to many of the images Collier reworks into new photographs, while considering in particular the representation of the female in contemporary photography and popular culture.

Tom Eccles

Collier’s photographic works typically incorporate images of found everyday objects, including magazines, record sleeves, jigsaw puzzles, used books, analogue darkroom equipment and abandoned self-help manuals. Her works operate on the threshold between the personal and the universal. Informed as much by the advertising and technical photography of the late 1960s and 1970s as more recent approaches to photo-conceptualism, her work invites the viewer into an animated web of formal and psychological associations. Collier’s works explore questions of perception and representation and the mechanics of the gaze. Negotiating biography, nostalgia, and melancholia, Collier’s work establishes a tension between her employment of an almost forensic photographic objectivity and the often highly subjective and emotive content she focuses on.

Exhibition produced with the collaboration of Anton Kern Gallery, New York and the Corvi-Mora Gallery, London.

And with: Aphrodite Gonou, Jim Lambie, Thea Westreich / Ethan Wagner, Hilary Rubenstein, Melissa and Robert Soros, David Schrader.

www.annecollier.com