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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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Lorraine Heitzman
Building Memories

The facades and iconic forms of churches and domestic architecture are the subjects of Lorraine Heitzman’s collages in an exhibit opening May 31, 2015 at Winslow Garage. Inspired by the aspirational nature of church architecture as well as the humble character of more prosaic buildings, Heitzman uses postcards, paint and paper to construct her iconoclastic portraits. In the buildings of her imagination and memory, she seeks to celebrate their individual personalities and reveal the ecstasy, strength, whimsy and boredom that we uncover and project onto these structures.

Lorraine Heitzman is a Los Angeles artist, living in Eagle Rock since 2011. Her architectural influences began in New York where she was born and followed her to the Midwest where she received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She continues to find inspiration in the houses, churches, storefronts and garages of California.