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.
Rachel Finkelstein/ Face me
Winslow Garage is delighted to present Face Me, a recent technology-based work by Los Angeles artist Rachel Finkelstein. Having embraced computer art since the early 1980s, Finkelstein has a distinguished history of exploring both abstraction and feminist body art. In this exhibition, she reflects on "the body as an assemblage that is constantly coming together and falling apart." AI-generated, fragmented self-portraits are set in motion through QR codes, creating a moving, psychedelic vision where fragments of her image coalesce and disperse in rhythmic patterns. The installation also features a table-sized 3D printed partial portrait of the artist's head and a selection of source images that informed the work.
Rachel Finkelstein is a Feminist and LGBTQ mixed-media artist with a distinguished art practice spanning over 40 years. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Saint Martin's College of Art in 1979 and her Master of Arts from the Royal College of Art in 1982. In 2021, she completed her MFA at California State University, Long Beach. Finkelstein's work has been exhibited across Europe, the United States, and Israel. Her contributions are featured in seminal texts, including Mary Kelly: On Sexual Politics and Art (1987) in Framing Feminism: Art and the Women's Movement 1970-1985, edited by R. Parker & G. Pollock, and Richard Dyer's Now You See It: Studies in Lesbian and Gay Film (1990). Her work delves into complex themes of identity, materiality, and the interplay between the physical and digital realms, consistently pushing the boundaries of contemporary art practice.