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.
Jacobine Van Der Meer
Black Box Requiem
For the exhibition BLACK BOX Requiem, Jacobine van der Meer has created an installation in which the point of departure is the Winslow Garage building itself. A space like a box, in a bucolic neighborhood of Los Angeles, with a large crack in the floor caused by an earthquake. Once inside the viewer becomes part of a multidimensional hallucinatory visualization of the aftermath of a disaster where nature has taken over.
Through the use of a total mix up of drawing, painting, sculpture and projections van der Meer explores the separation between the natural and the manufactured, the outside and the inside as well as the role of the viewer.
Van der Meer has an extensive background in special effects make up and prosthetic sculpture for the film industry. She incorporates materials and techniques used for film and stage productions. Dividing her time between Los Angeles and Landers in the Mojave desert, she often lets the contrasts of these disparate environs inhabit her work.
Van der Meer has had solo exhibitions at Conduit Gallery and at The Public Trust in Dallas, Texas. Her work has been included in exhibitions in Riverside, Los Angeles, Miami, and Joshua Tree and is represented in private collections in The United States and The Netherlands.
www.jacobinevandermeer.com