KOLLABS is a collaborative project between artists Luis Garcia-Nerey and Anke Schofield. In their work, KOLLABS create compositions juxtaposing undomesticated animals within domestic and urban environments, highlighting the interaction between wildlife and the human experience.

Their work embarks on a journey in which the viewer is presented with an open-ended narrative and no definitive conclusion, engaging the viewer as a participant in the ultimate storyline of each piece. Whether literal or abstract, Nerey and Schofield’s pieces do not rationalize a specific idea of wilderness, but rather encourage the viewer to interpret the works without limitations by concrete definitions.

Nerey and Schofield continue to delve deeper into their work by further injecting the animals into everyday human situations, and through this process of anthropomorphizing animal behavior, challenge social norms and provoke thought in animal/human interactions.

Represented by Blue Gallery exclusively in the Midwest, KOLLABS mixed media paintings have been exhibited in prominent galleries throughout the US, and can be found in private and corporate collections worldwide. Luis Garcia-Nerey lives and works in Miami, Florida and Anke Schofield lives and works in Denver, Colorado. The two divide their creative time traveling between studios in both Miami and Denver in order to create their provocative pieces.

Talk begins at 7:00pm