Phyllis Green Black Holes, 1994, ceramic, concrete polymer, flocking fabric, metal, 9 x 8 x 8 inches
Phyllis Green Another Splash in the Turkish Bath (little room)
Opening Reception:
Saturday, November 2, 2019, 5 - 8 p.m.
November 2 - December 21, 2019
Chimento Contemporary is pleased to present artist Phyllis Green Another Splash in the Turkish Bath. This is a Little Room presentation.
Phyllis Green adopted the title of Jean-August-Dominique Ingres foremost portrayal of the nineteenth century “harem” theme, the painting The Turkish Bath (Le bain turc), for her exhibition of small sculptures at Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, in November 1994. Writing for the Los Angeles Times, critic Susan Kandel commented that “the hot house atmosphere that Ingres incarnates- all damp flesh, intertwined limbs and Near Eastern froufrou- becomes in Green’s hands, both hyperbolic and irresistible.” (LA Times, 16 November 1994). In the statement that accompanied the exhibition, Green wrote:
"The mixed media objects included in this series are hybrids of symbolic male and female representation: perforated and projecting, hard and soft, inside and outside. They are loaded to evoke all manner of “female” allusions by their small size and by the multi-layered use of such materials as flocking, feathers and fabric. The use of female imagery as form and content continues to be devalued by the art establishment, if not by the culture in broader terms. One of my intentions is to challenge the lingering modernist assumption that decoration and ornament, as feminine, are enemies of “high art”."
Here, 25 years later, Green assembles a group of seven of the pieces in this series completed between 1993 and 1996. Other pieces in the series are represented in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and in numerous private collections in the United States.
Phyllis Green (b. 1950, Minneapolis, MN) is an internationally exhibited artist and curator based in Los Angeles. Green is the recipient of numerous prestigious grants and awards, such as Senior Artist Fellowship, City of Santa Monica (2017), the Guggenheim Fellowship (2014), Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York; Individual Artist Grant, Cultural Affairs Department, City of Los Angeles; California Arts Council Artists Fellowship (Sculpture); and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (Sculpture). Her work is in the permanent holdings of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and numerous private collections.
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