Liz Collins: Motherlode

Liz Collins: Motherlode at the RISD Museum is the first U.S. survey of artist Liz Collins’ genre-defying work. For more than three decades, Collins has moved fluidly between the realms of fine art, fashion, and design, pushing material and technical boundaries to create works that evoke a depth of emotion, energy, and individual expression. Motherlode features more than 80 objects, capturing for the first time the full arc of Collins’ career from the 1980s to the present day. It includes important examples of her immersive textile installations and wall works, intricate and monumental woven hangings, fashion, needlework, drawings, performance documentation, and ephemera. In keeping with the RISD Museum’s commitment to centering makers and broadening perspectives, the exhibition vividly showcases the trailblazing nature of Collins’ work as well as the artist’s deep commitment to illuminating Queer feminist creative practice and environmental activism. Motherlode is accompanied by the first monograph on Collins’ work.