Winslow Garage
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.
Alphons Greber
The Curved Image
New Photospheres
Winslow Garage is pleased to present a selection of photospheres by Los Angeles artist
Alphons Greber. The new works on view, “Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe” and
“Upper Big Tujunga Canyon Road Bridge” are Greber’s recent explorations into the emotional and intellectual possibilities created by his perspective investigations into architectural structures. Greber’s photospheres are large fiberglass globes surfaced with photographs that the artist has taken from a fixed vantage point corresponding with the center of his sphere of vision. These spheres and/or half-spheres, taking a convex or concave form, allow the viewer to experience the image from multiple viewpoints and to travel within the beautifully executed and highly detailed image. Viewing these photographic sculptures is a novel experience where “straight becomes crooked and things appear and disappear as a result of walking around the object.”
Alphons Greber grew up in Switzerland and was trained as a sculptor at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences. He later studied photography and film-making at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and the USC Rossier School of Fine Arts, where he earned an MFA in 1987. Greber subsequently built a film school for teenagers for The City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department in Hollywood. He worked as an artist-in-residence for the Watts Labor Community Action Committee and taught social studies at King/Drew Magnet High School for Medicine & Science. Greber presently lives and works as a freelance artist in the Willowbrook/ Compton area. Alphons Greber’s work is currently on view at the USC, School of Cinematic Arts.