User:Lonebiker/Kim Dingle

Kim Dingle (1951-) is a Los Angeles based contemporary artist working in paint, sculpture and installation

Dingle grew up in Pomona, California. In 1988 she earned a BFA from Cal State Los Angeles and in 1990, an MFA from Claremont Graduate School.

Dingle's work characteristically depicts stout young girls dressed in patent-leather maryjanes and frilly party dresses involved in stereotypically masculine, often subversive acts full of aggression and violence. Her heroines punch, hack, kick, mutilate and gnaw their way through a sacchrine world without mussing a curl on their heads or ruffling an embelishment on their frocks. The brutality and ferocity that they demonstrate is witty, provocative and often shocking. As her New York representative, Sperone Westwater states, "her art illuminates the role that race, gender, stereotype and myth play in defining identity." The work provides an shrewd yet fresh contemporary approach to well considered artistic subjects.

The challenging critique in Dingle's work is further strengthened by her highly skilled hand and adept aesthetic sensibility. The brushwork of her paintings is as sensuous and visceral as the scenes it conjures.

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New York representative, Sperone Westwater

Dingle's work at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles