Seed catalog, PVA, and UV varnish on canvas
10 x 8 in.
Andrea McGinty
Living in rural upstate New York, Andrea McGinty is a mother, a gardener, and a conceptual artist who works between sculpture, photography, and collage. Cut-out images from seed catalogs of tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, and garlic, to name a few, are the ingredients that make up the collages on canvas in her new body of work. Her process follows these steps: collect, observe, and meticulously arrange. Her latest show, which is opening in New York next month with Chozick Family Art Gallery, is not to be missed.
In the Words of the Artist
Seed catalog, PVA, and UV varnish on canvas
10 x 8 in.
I approach collage in a very similar way to my sculptural practice. I frequently fall in love with objects in and around my everyday life. I store them in my studio and obsess over them until I find the perfect place for them in my work. In the case of collage, I started receiving catalogs from the company I order my garden seeds from. I fell in love with the photos, practical depictions of the produce, and flowers you could grow with each seed at the height of perfection. I began isolating just the photos, carefully removing them with a utility knife, and the collage was born.
Seed catalog, PVA, and UV varnish on canvas
8 x 10 in.
I moved to a rural part of upstate New York several years ago and quickly started my first garden. I went from barely being able to keep a house plant alive in an apartment to growing a large portion of what we eat in a year in the field just outside of our home. I say with no exaggeration that, it was the most rewarding thing I had ever done up until the birth of my son late last year. And it’s still a close second.
I am the type of artist who can’t help but absorb my personal experience into my work, so it naturally found its way in. At the same time, the global economy was facing supply chain strains, and people were reexamining their relationship to health and well-being, which is something I’ve approached in my work in various forms over the years. It felt both so close and personal and unavoidably part of the zeitgeist.
Seed catalog, PVA, and UV varnish on canvas
8 x 10 in.
Seed catalog, PVA, and UV varnish on canvas
10 x 8 in.
There is a patience in gardening that is similar to making collages. Cutting out each image is a methodical, labor-intensive task, and building each image carefully takes time. And a lot of humility. In gardening, I can do my best, but there is so much that I can’t control. With collage, I am the driving force, but I have to really commit to every decision. There is no going back once I glue something to the canvas, so I am often working against my own choices. I’m forced to truly embrace each decision, even the ones that feel like a mistake moments after.
Collage presents an interesting challenge, a different way of using my brain. The way I build each image is entirely additive. I am placing individual images onto raw canvas; the pictures live on the same plane but never touch. While I can always add more, I can’t remove them once glued down. If torn up, a remnant will always remain. It causes me to be very careful and thoughtful in my practice, but the process is still playful and explorative. I think of them like paintings. I am making free associations with color, line, space, and shape, in addition to the content of the individual images. They live somewhere between still life, landscape, and abstraction.
Seed catalog, PVA, and UV varnish on canvas
6 x 8 in.
Seed catalog, PVA, and UV varnish on canvas
8 x 6 in.
About the Artist
Andrea McGinty (b. 1985, Sunrise, FL) is an artist and writer based in New York. She received her MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in 2014 and a BA in Art History from Florida Atlantic University in 2007. McGinty’s work has been exhibited internationally, with recent solo exhibitions Real Simple at Liberal Arts Roxbury (Roxbury, NY) and Clint Eastwood at Sunny NY (New York, NY), reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail. She has been featured in group exhibitions at Rachel Uffner (New York, NY), Petra Bibeau (New York, NY), Lighthouse Works (Fishers Island, NY), VSOP Projects (Greenport, NY), Lane Meyer Projects (Denver, CO), International Waters (Brooklyn, NY), Essex Flowers (New York, NY), and East Hampton Shed (East Hampton, NY).
Photos courtesy of Chozick Family Art Gallery.
Andrea McGinty 'A Village' presented by Chozick Family Art Gallery at NADA
July 8 - August 15, 2025.
For Your Viewing Pleasure
What to watch, read, and experience, as curated by the Collé team.
SAYURI ICHIDA is a UK-based Japanese artist working in photography. Ichida’s practice focuses on themes of self-identity, reflecting on her own memories and life experiences. In her photographs, she explores the complexities of emotional states by portraying the human form and sculptural objects.
AMIE DICKE'S work comprises a negotiation between everyday imagery and the validity of the whole of visual culture. Dicke prints images culled from various sources, from fashion magazines to Bauhaus catalogues, and charges them with a sense of physicality through dissolving the images from the paper.
DAFNA TALMOR is an artist and lecturer based in London whose practice encompasses photography, spatial interventions, curation, and collaborations. Her photographs are included in public collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, Deutsche Bank, Hiscox, and in private collections internationally.
GARETH PHILLIPS is a Welsh artist known for transforming the photobook into sculptural, immersive installations that interrogate narrative, space, and environmental themes. Trained in documentary photography, his work bridges visual storytelling with conceptual experimentation, often exploring human impact on nature. He has exhibited internationally and is currently pursuing a practice-led PhD at the University of the Arts London.
ALICE ISAAC is a British collage artist, animator, and director based in Margate, UK. Her work fuses analog collage techniques with digital animation, creating a distinctive visual language that has attracted clients such as Nike, Prada, Adidas, and Flaunt Magazine.
Out and About
What to watch, read, and experience, as curated by the Collé team.
▼ VISIT
Lorna Simpson: Source Notes
This presentation at The MET of work by Lorna Simpson is the first exhibition to consider the entirety of her painting practice to date. Simpson came to prominence in the early 1990s with her pioneering approach to conceptual photography. Since then, she has produced works in multiple media that continue to probe the nature of images and how they construct meaning.
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SCUMB Manifesto by Justine Kurland
Inspired by Valerie Solanas’ iconoclastic feminist tract SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto, SCUMB Manifesto introduces us to photographer Justine Kurland’s own uncompromising initiative: the Society for Cutting Up Men’s Books.
▼ LISTEN
Pedestrians of Bright Silence
by Jespfur
This album sounds like a field recording of your own thoughts if they lived in a city made of fog. Full of soft glitches, barely-there melodies, and the occasional emotional gut punch.
