The series of work entitled: "The Cake Series" is the artist's first solo show in Los Angeles in ten years. The work consists of dainty little girls wearing doily type dresses and Mary Jane shoes diving head first into the indulgence of sweet cakes and frosting. Dingle has used these characters in her past paintings and sculptures as has regularly referred to them as the "Prisses" or "Fatty and Fudge." She has portrayed them as being possessed by inexplicable violence against nature and each other. The gestural brushstrokes and loose style give the viewer the sense of losing themselves in the decadence of the cakes but falls short at being too repetitive. I felt that after having spent a few minutes with some of the paintings I didn't need to see the rest of the work. Every single piece was of a little girl drowning in cake. I'm not sure if this was the artist way of making a social commentary on the abuse American's put their bodies through on a daily basis and the repetition was meant to emphasize the routine or if she has some sort of eating disorder and is working her way through it but what I do know is that I found the work to be boring as hell and easily forgot upon leaving the gallery.
We are a group of Art students from the University of California Riverside who are attending a series of Art Galleries in several parts of Southern California. We have decided to use Blogger.com to post the pictures we take, and record our thoughts and opinions about the work we visit. You can find our critiques and thoughts on the work in the "comments" field, which appears below the pictures of the art.
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Kim Dingle
The series of work entitled: "The Cake Series" is the artist's first solo show in Los Angeles in ten years. The work consists of dainty little girls wearing doily type dresses and Mary Jane shoes diving head first into the indulgence of sweet cakes and frosting. Dingle has used these characters in her past paintings and sculptures as has regularly referred to them as the "Prisses" or "Fatty and Fudge." She has portrayed them as being possessed by inexplicable violence against nature and each other. The gestural brushstrokes and loose style give the viewer the sense of losing themselves in the decadence of the cakes but falls short at being too repetitive. I felt that after having spent a few minutes with some of the paintings I didn't need to see the rest of the work. Every single piece was of a little girl drowning in cake. I'm not sure if this was the artist way of making a social commentary on the abuse American's put their bodies through on a daily basis and the repetition was meant to emphasize the routine or if she has some sort of eating disorder and is working her way through it but what I do know is that I found the work to be boring as hell and easily forgot upon leaving the gallery.
~ Ericka Gómez
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