Jil Weinstock "RE: Play"
Winston Wachter Fine Art
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Among her most notable works are her rubber-encased vintage nightgowns and button-down shirts. Incorporating elements of Minimalist critique, these pieces consider essential issues of form and color, as well as the collective memories that clothing items conjure for the wearer. The effect is two-fold; the sculptures memorialize the nostalgic feeling of the clothing itself, and the garments then become newly unfamiliar through their placement within an unusual, ultra-modern substance.Working with the same contrast between modernity and nostalgia, Weinstock also revisits her childhood classic toys by electroplating them with bronze. Like the familiarity of bronzed baby booties, these toys and the childhood memories they evoke acquire an elevated, immortalized status via their preservation in the sculptural medium.
In her new body of work, Weinstock continues to explore rubber and bronze as preservation materials for objects and memories alike. Weinstock focuses on what she refers to as the "artifacts of childhood," including both our treasured possessions and junk drawer relics. The work continues to feature bronzed toy cars and planes, as well as playhouses reinvented in rubber. She also amasses piles of deflated balloons in rubber casing, toy cars and jacks, and even the former play clothes of her growing children. Weinstock arranges certain pieces in tableaux sets, while others are displayed in vibrant light-boxes, giving them an otherworldly glow. Through her artistic process, everyday items become trophies of the past and portraits of human memory. In this way, Weinstock's poignant, nuanced work gives form and substance to our shared, intangible past.
Jil Weinstock holds a BFA and MFA from the University of California, Berkeley (the latter a joint degree with the San Francisco Art Institute). She is the recipient of a McGrath Grant and the Walter Gropius Award. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at LAX International Airport, the Huntington Museum of Art, and the SFMOMA. She has recently been featured in numerous art publications including a full profile in the March 2012 issue of ARTnews. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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from May 03, 2012 to June 16, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-05-03 from 18:00 to 20:00