Sherry Frumkin Gallery Hosts Two Solo Exhibitions

Sunday, 27 January 2008 22:01

Santa Monica, CA - SHERRY FRUMKIN GALLERY is pleased to announce solo exhibitions of work by Kimberly Squaglia and Jil Weinstock, on exhibition through 8 March, 2008. In concurrent solo exhibitions, the two artists, one living in California, the other in New York, manipulate their chosen materials in works that celebrate surface beauty while probing deep beneath the obvious.
 
Kimberly Squaglia’s lyrical works of delicately painted biomorphic patterns and microscopic forms are layered between coats of sanded or glossy resin. Lacey ribbons and starry bursts of color are magically suspended inside these wall-hung works that sizzle with trapped energy inside clear, creamy smooth surfaces. The tension between inside and out gives them their pizzazz – the equivalent of sipping what your tongue believes as simple fruit drink only to find it’s a spiked punch.
 
Kim Squaglia was born in Sacramento, California, in 1971, where she currently lives. She received an MFA from University of Texas at San Antonio in 2000. In 2001, she participated in a residency at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; Skowhegan, Maine. Her work was included in the nationally traveled POPulence exhibition, curated by David Pagel, which originated at the Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston. This is Squaglia’s second solo with the gallery.
 
Where Squaglia works with forms that, if identifiable at all, look sub-cellular, Jil Weinstoc k takes recognizable objects, like vintage clothing (many of the them inherited from her grandmother whose fashion sense and sewing talent she admired) that she encases in rubber. Hanging on the wall much like vanity mirrors, they address ideas of identity and memory. These sensuous materials trapped inside rubber like insects captured in amber address the artist’s continuing interest in exploring the double-edged sword of feminine identity. The material's fleshy surface acknowledges the body while the strict geometric shape of the pieces demonstrates Weinstock’s exploration of formal composition. Related, but with a much more critical eye to formalist concerns and color relationships, is the exposed zipper work in which the zippers reference not simply the clothing, but the idea of undressing itself.

Jil Weinstock received a joint MFA from University of California Berkeley and San Francisco Art Institute in 1995. She lives in New York City and currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts, New York. This is Weinstock’s 5 th solo with the gallery.
 
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