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Wear

February 7, 2008- March 8, 2008

Reception: February 7, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Jil Weinstock

Charles Cowles Gallery

537 W 24th St

Rubber. Its uncanny approximation of flesh, its factory aesthetic, its art historical precedents have all made rubber an irresistible medium for Jil Weinstock. She has used its ambivalent appeal to beguile her viewer with questions about identity, beauty and memory. First using it as nature entraps a fly in amber for the suspension of household objects in a celebration/critique of domesticity. Then for making vintage dresses float Ophelia-like in compositions revealing their seams, linings and zippers. And now for its ability to mold the shape of a shirt so convincingly it looks ready to wear except for its waxy sheen.

Her most recent work leaves the physical garment behind in favor of the materiality of the rubber. For the first time she adds pigment to the medium making the rubber opaque and the shape becomes the focus not its contents. A folded shirt, button down, anonymous, and plain, is reincarnated in weeks' worth of work garb. Groups of seven shirts in shades of white, blue, and red suggest uniforms with all the ease, but lack of individuality inherent therein.

Weinstock continues to work with vintage clothing in her new pieces, and in fact amplifies the nostalgia by revisiting childhood garments. The group of little dresses and tuxedo shirts suggest a birthday party, a class photo, or a wild afternoon of dress-up. The festive atmosphere is compounded with matching mommy-daughter diptychs and square dance ensembles doing a wall-bound do-si-do. These pieces belie the workaday mood of the men's shirts giving credence to the sentiment: mankind cannot live on work alone. We all need a little recognition whether of our toils or accomplishments and that is just what Jil Weinstock's new body of work does.

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.

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Location   Gallery Charles Cowles Gallery Address 537 W 24th St New York (Chelsea) NY, 10011 United States Phone 212-741-8999 Fax 212-741-6222 Hours Tue-Sat 10-6

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