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.
Michelle Weinberg
Another Roadside Attraction
Large Scale paintings on paper fuse the flat color treatments found on warehouse exteriors with graphic images and pattern. Painted with latex, gouache and watercolor media, these works are conceived as portable murals, which fold and unfold. The found paper collages orchestrate eccentric spaces on an intimate scale. Images float and collide in shallow spaces which hint at fragmented narratives. Weinberg’s imagery lifts its saturated palette and graphic outlines from printed matter and animation of the 60’s and 70’s.
Jonathan Binstock, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Corcoran Museum of Art, observed that “Weinberg’s uncanny ability to inflate and explore this intrinsically compressed space endows her work with a quirky amplitude that upends visual perception, the laws of gravity, and other physical phenomena.”
Michelle Weinberg is the recipient of fellowships and awards from Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, Millay Colony, MacDowell Colony, a FIVA Fellowship from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, a Visual Arts fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Eastern Grontier Society in Maine, the New England Foundation for the Arts and Artist Access Grants from Tigertail Productions in Miami, among others.
Ms. Weinberg contributes reviews on art to Tema Celeste magazine. She also edits and presents CIRCULAR, a bi-annual publication of contemporary art and culture. Originally
From New York, Weinberg received her BFA from the School of Bisual Arts in NYC and her MFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia