ABSTRACT

ARTIST

CHRISTA COLLINS

ABOUT

“As a Black woman working in abstraction - my practice is deeply rooted in emotional and spiritual excavation. I’ve always experienced the world through heightened sensitivity—an intuitive awareness that shapes both how I move through life, and how I create.”

My practice explores presence, memory, and the emotional and spiritual landscapes beneath the surface

Known for raw materiality and a rich, earthy palette

My practice explores presence, memory, and the emotional and spiritual landscapes beneath the surface Known for raw materiality and a rich, earthy palette

WHAT SETS ME APART

What sets me apart is my commitment to creating from an internal place rather than external expectation. Each work is an exploration of transformation—capturing moments of tension, release, and becoming through abstraction. My practice is rooted in intuition, emotion, and the unseen forces that shape our experiences.

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Whatever you’re seeking—connection, meaning, or something that resonates beyond the surface—my work offers space for that experience to unfold.

  • I’m Christa Collins, an Atlanta and Nashville-based artist working in painting, sculpture, and mixed media. My practice explores presence, memory, and the emotional and spiritual landscapes beneath the surface. I blend gesture, spontaneity, and the subconscious to develop a personal language of emotion and spirit, inviting viewers to engage with their inner worlds.

  • My work is rooted in Abstract Expressionism, and I create instinctively and materially, emphasizing fluidity, imperfection, and tactile exploration of layered textures and surfaces. I embrace construction and deconstruction as a visual language, building dynamic, geometric motifs and meditative compositions that reflect introspection, interiority, and connection to the unseen. Rhythm, intuition, and ongoing spiritual inquiry guide my process.

  • I work with collectors, curators, and galleries who value process-driven abstraction and thoughtful engagement with art, as well as individuals seeking meaningful, personalized commissions. My work is for those drawn to emotional resonance, material depth, and contemplative, tactile compositions.

My Creative Process

  • Geometric drawing of an outline square with sections divided by vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines.

    Intuitive

    I follow instinct and heightened sensitivity, allowing each work to unfold naturally rather than forcing outcomes.

  • Geometric drawing of an outline square with sections divided by vertical, horizontal, and half circle lines.

    Materially Exploratory

    I work across painting, sculpture, and mixed media, experimenting with texture, surfaces, and unconventional materials.

  • Geometric drawing of an outline square with sections divided by vertical, horizontal, and circle lines.

    Layered & Reflective

    I build up and strip away layers, letting forms emerge, dissolve, and create space for contemplation.

  • Geometric drawing of an outline square with sections divided by vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines.

    Constructive & Responsive

    I embrace construction, deconstruction, rhythm, and improvisation as part of discovering form, emotion, and subtle interactions between materials.

Past Projects

All Roads Lead To Here

A solo exhibition by Christa Collins

The Bankers Alley Hotel, Nashville TN

August 1st - November 1st, 2025

This exhibition is a meditation on becoming—an excavation of the winding, fractured, and often unseen paths that shape who we are. A nonlinear, tender, and disjointed journey back to the self. Through abstract paintings on canvas and paper, this body of work honors the labor of growth—how even the missteps and detours contain an order, a rhythm of return. Each individual painting is a story and a journey in itself.

Christa’s painting process—layered, emotional, gestural—traces her own inner terrains. These artworks represent touchstones, landmarks of interior shifts. They hold restraint and rupture in the same breath. In them, healing is not polished—it is raw, layered, sometimes undone.

ARLTH embraces the intimate, exciting journey of facing oneself—all past and emerging versions included—and acknowledging them as necessary thresholds. It is about self-love and personal growth as something earned, not through perfection, but through presence. Because every closed door rerouted you. And every road—the scenic ones, the hard ones—taught you how to come home to yourself.

Past Projects

GULCH Magazine

GULCH Magazine highlights the people, places, ideas, and discussions happening on the ground in Atlanta’s visual arts & culture scene. They also publish curated art calendar weekly to share art events happening in Atlanta.

Christa Collins for Gulch Magazine

Interview by Jasmine Hentschel
Photographed by Beau Allen Collins

2024

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