Kollabs is an ongoing collaboration project between two professional artists, Luis Garcia-Nerey and Anke Schofield, exploring questions on the human construct within the forest and its inhabitants. They present a serious and provocative series of collaborative paintings and installations that create a sense of wonder, evoking questions on the interaction between human life and the forest environme
nt. The pair split their creative time traveling between studios in both Miami, Florida and Atlanta, Georgia in order to create there wondrous pieces. He currently lives in Miami, FL and is in the residency program at the Art Center/South Florida. He atended the New World School of the Arts in Miami, FL and Long Island University in New York. Throughout this period he honed his skills in both painting and sculpture. Anke Schofield was born in Ithaca, New York, and lives in Atlanta, GA. She was apprenticed as a professional photographer assistant when she was still in the 8th grade. Anke took to the form readily and with enthusiasm. She won a scholarship to the Savannah College of Art and Design, where she earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art. Throughout this period she pursued her studies of color theory and painting, continuing to find in these endeavors greater creative stimulus and inspiration than she had known in her photographic work.
