Presented by Matéria in Spaces

 

James Collins
Homes and Gardens

October 18 - December 13, 2025

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 18, 5-9 pm

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Matéria in Spaces is pleased to present James Collins' site-responsive installation Homes and Gardens, including eight new large-scale paintings, and ten new smaller works.

 

In Homes and Gardens, Collins reimagines the domestic interior as a shifting field of orientation. His new abstract paintings respond to the rhythms of the house, transforming the familiar into a space both intimate and expansive—a home recast as a site of reflection and encounter.

 

Site-responsive and evolving from the physical contours of the space itself, the works invite visitors to inhabit an environment where the private folds into the public.

 

The project takes place at Biba Bell and Chad Proudlock's home/loft downtown Grosse Pointe Park, a unique space that includes an addition by architect Karen Swanson, the great granddaughter of Eliel Saarinen.

 

The public opening reception with the artist will take place on Saturday, October 18, from 5-9 pm, and viewings will be available by gallery appointment afterwards. Additional events associated with the project will also place from October through December 2025.

 

Biba Bell and Chad Proudlock's home is located at 15114 Kercheval Avenue, Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan.

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JAMES COLLINS

Detroit-based artist James Collins (b. 1972, Superior, Wisconsin), is known for minimalist op art and abstract works that are created through a variety of imaginative processes that embody chemistry and chance. These processes create a spacious and gestural sense of predictable unpredictability.

Collins has shown extensively nationally and internationally, including Painted Protocols at HWM in Nice France; An Anonymous System at the Rogaland Kunstsenter in Stavanger Norway; Exploring the Tributaries at Simone DeSousa Gallery in Detroit; 99 cents or Less at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; Summer Group Show and What Birds Can See at Document in Chicago, IL; New American Paintings at the Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL; On the Blue Shores of Silence at Tracy Williams Ltd., New York; FOG Design and Art with Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco; Library Street Collective, Detroit; Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Mich. and at the West Michigan Area Show, Kalamazoo, where he was awarded the Grand Prize in 2012.

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Matéria in Spaces

Matéria in Spaces is an ongoing project by Matéria, seeking to activate contemporary art in unexpected spaces, evolving and expanding the gallery's original mission of cultivating in-depth and engaged art collecting, while energizing and supporting diverse current cultural conversations.