Allison Collins
Seattle artist Allison Collins is known for her landscapes that are layered with paint and meaning and woven with deeply saturated hues of red, gold, and deep greens and blues. Exhibiting a textural lushness and untethered to any exact places, her work imparts the emotion of traveling through open spaces, fields, sky, and vast expanses.
Gates Center, 1st floor
Collins was born in 1949 and received her Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees from the University of Washington and her Master of Fine Arts from the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, California. She has received numerous awards, including a Whitney Museum of American Art Fellowship. Her work appears in collections across the United States and was selected by the U.S. Department of State to be featured in the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest, Romania, as part of the
Art in Embassies Program. Her painting Coming Back, which the Allen School acquired in 2020, is displayed in the Charles & Lisa Simonyi Undergraduate Commons on the 1st floor of the Bill & Melinda Gates Center.