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Opening October 25th/ 3-6 pm.    Holly Topping/ Djinn, Sirens, and Other Troubles

Holly Topping
Djinn, Sirens and Other Troubles
Opening October 25th

Winslow Garage is pleased to present Djinns, Sirens, and Other Troubles by Los Angeles artist Holly Topping. In this exhibition, Topping presents an installation of painted hanging gourds, small paintings on wood crosscuts, and a selection of watercolors on paper. Known for her highly skilled paintings of figures with cheeky contemporary concerns, this work presents the artist in full play mode. Naughty sprites cavort through air and sea causing the occasional disaster and disembodied arms elegantly smoke cigarettes in fantasy landscapes. Drawing from mythology, memory, and contemporary experience, these works reveal the strange ways we adapt to uncertainty and catastrophe.

Holly Topping is a Los Angeles–based artist and educator whose paintings explore the strange intersections of personal history, cultural memory, gender, humor, and unease. She received her MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and has exhibited extensively in Los Angeles and nationally, including solo exhibitions at Angles Gallery and Orange Coast College. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Bass Museum of Art, Torrance Art Museum, and the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, and is held in the collections of the Bass Museum of Art and the Museum of Sex in New York. Topping has been a tenured professor of art at Orange Coast College since 2008. 

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State of Emergency
curated by Thin Nyguen

State of Emergency, curated by Thin Nyguen
with works by Chris Christion, Zavé Martohardjono, Olivier Mirguet, Azadeh Tajpour, and Axel Wilhite.

The term “Big Brother” as it is used in George Orwell’s seminal novel, 1984, has been
incorporated into the English lexicon as a synonym for the abuse of governmental
power, particularly in respect to civil liberties and often specifically related to mass surveillance. The phrase "Big Brother is watching you” becomes particularly relevant as it is now common knowledge that we are almost constantly being watched by cameras from both private and public sources. As we enter the epoch of the police state, our increasing awareness of police brutality reveals both abuse of power and violations to our Fourth Amendment rights.

This diverse group of local and international artists use various mediums to explore how
surveillance is being used as a tool of power and subversion as part of a policing state in
operation.