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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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Valerie Mrején. Video Shorts

French Artist Valérie Mréjen is known for her succinct observation of the human condition.
Her probing psychological studies of individuals and their interactions run the gamut from
humorous to tragic. Language and its limitations is often a subject for Mréjen. In this set of quirky video portraits, individuals were asked to recall a memory. The resulting narrative highlights the participants ideosyncrasies as well as poignantly unites them through their all too human common flaws.

Mréjen is a published author,a filmaker, and an internationally known fine artist.
The video portraits shown here were made in Paris and in Los Angeles.
Video Portraits is an ongoing project.
Mréjen's extensive biography includes recent exhibitions at he Biennale de Turin and ARCO
Madrid (stand D.A.P.)
All work courtesy Gallerie Cent8 Paris.