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.
Dominique Zeltzman
Selected Work
In her Los Angeles premier, Dominique Zeltzman presents two videos and a 2D work exploring domesticity, imposter syndrome, and the female body. Her video Balance contrasts the sexy femme executive with the eccentric domestic. In Memorial Shoes, she takes solace in fashion while reckoning with the death of her mother. And, in the work Continuum, she presents frames from her video installation Radical Home where she explores the container as a social construct while crawling, crouching, and scurrying along a perimeter of NYT disacter scenes and banal images of her house.
Dominique Zeltzman is a Baltimore based video installation and performance artist. A choreographer and dancer in San Francisco for fifteen years, her work has been presented at the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Lab in SF, the Flynn Theater in Burlington, VT, Movement Research at the Judson Church in NYC and CSTA in the Czech
Repubic among others. She recived her MFA in Intermedia and Digital Art from the University of British Colombia and teaches video, photography, and intersectional arts. Her 2002 video short, Girl Under the Table toured festivals in San Francisco, New York, Paris, Chicago, Toronto, Hollywood, anad Bolona, Italy.