​Andrew James Collins (b 1984) is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Through material and process experimentation he seeks to come closer to a concept of human understanding. His work emerges from the tangents between death, life, society, language, history, landscape, and metaphysics.

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Collins’s practice is rooted in the exploration of landscape, body, and history. The artist seeks a a fluid interplay between various ideologies, processes, and materials by working on multiple distinct bodies of work. Collins’ experimentation with form and materiality reveals the nature of his experience and connection with the world: visual creations that evoke simple and elegant natural processes that delve into historical and personal narratives surrounding the body and the landscape. Collins constantly seeks new and innovative processes and materials to incorporate in his work, embracing chance, force, and accident as key elements. His work draws inspiration from sources including geology, time passage, cosmology, and the cycles of life and death. His most recent body of work is rooted in anthropology, utilizing more recognizable forms, humor, and solid materials. Borrowing language from graffiti, street culture, masks, and written communication Collins has begun to employ methods such as 3-D scanning and printing, aluminum pours, and other casting techniques.