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.
Elizabeth Wild
Grow
Grow is a selection of photographs that serve as a meditation on the wonder and magic
of childhood. It is also a record of my personal growth as I witness the development of
my children as they approach adulthood. Like all my photographs, they reflect my
attitudes and interests outside of being representations of their subjects, so they are not
really "nice" pictures of kids. Many of them are humorous because living with children
makes the world seem funny- at least most of the time.
Elizabeth Wild is a multi-media artist and designer living in Los Angeles, California. She works in a wide range of materials and is primarily interested in the interaction of humans and the environment. Wild earned her MFA from The Ohio State University with a concentration in glass and her BA from The University of Virginia with a major in painting and a minor in Art History. Ms. Wild has gone on to create a number of public artworks in southern California including works for the Department of Cultural Affairs/LA, the Community Redevelopment Agency/LA and the Art Council of Long Beach. Wild is the recipient of numerous fellowships including one from the Fundacîon Valpariso in Almerîa, Spain, a FIVA fellowship from The National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts in cooperation with the Corcoran Callery of Art, and two fellowships from The Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, Washington.