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.
Carrie Ungerman
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Born and raised in Dallas, TX, Carrie Ungerman lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Her work moves between sculpture and drawing and often takes the form of large scale, site-specific sculpture, installation and wall works whose ephemerality is both offset and underscored by labor intensive processes. Ritualized collecting, sorting and arranging of common and culturally encoded materials is an intrinsic part of her work.
For her exhibition at Winslow Garage, Underman works with items recovered from a legendary downtown LA bead store. Idiosyncratic hanging and display solutions, beaded signage, re-purposed tags, and tiny handwritten labels are the historically rich material that form the foundation of her new work.
Carrie Underman has exhibited in Southern California and has participated in exhibitions and residencies in the US, Europe, Israel, and India. Ungerman is the recipient of the California Community Foundation Fellowship (CCF), the City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship (COLA) and a Durfee ARC Grant. She received her BA from Brandeis University and a BFA and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. Underman is an alumna of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture