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.
Assemblage and Other Works
Winslow Garage is pleased to present a selection of sculptural wall works by Los Angeles artist Jordan Steinberg. Steinberg, whose work is rooted in material abstraction, has worked in the film industry for last 30 years while maintaining a working studio practice in Echo Park. Many of his works are assemblages of unusual textures organized by ropes, clusters, grids, and pathways. Embracing the properties of puddles of glue, the delicacy of wax paper, and the rigidity of found wires, Steinberg unifies disparate materials with a sophisticated sense of color and through the repetition of marks, tears, and cuts. Larger paintings made during the Covid lockdown consist of tiny circles drawn in a multitude of rows to count the days and pass time. These meditative works recall the hypnotic mark making of Aboriginal paintings and vibrate with the energy of their making. Steinberg’s practice is rigorous and Winslow Garage is delighted to show a tiny portion of his prolific production.
Jordan Steinberg grew up in New York City and absorbed the dynamic cultural happenings of the 1970’s and 80’s. Early influences include street art, graffiti, and artists such as Keith Haring and Joseph Beuys. Steinberg attended The School of Visual Arts form 1987-1991 and relocated Los Angeles in 1992.