Kim Dingle
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Kim Dingle (born 1951) is a Los Angeles-based contemporary artist working across painting, sculpture, photography, found imagery, and installation. Her practice explores themes of American culture, history, and gender politics through both figurative and abstract approaches.
Early life
Dingle was born in Pomona, California in 1951.{{cite web|url=https://lagunaartmuseum.org/artist/kim-dingle/|title=Kim Dingle|publisher=}} She received a Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate School in 1990 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cal State Los Angeles in 1988.{{cite web|url=https://robbreport.com/muse/thought-leaders/women-la-art-cene-erin-christovale-kim-dingle-maggie-kayne-eg18-2785283/|title=Change Agents Erin Christovale, Kim Dingle, and Maggie Kayne|first1=Natasha|last1=Wolff|date=2 April 2018|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-kim-dingle-vielmetter-20171108-htmlstory.html|title=How Ed Sullivan, girls gone wild, an alligator and blindfold painting shaped the art of Kim Dingle|first=Carolina A.|last=Miranda|website=Los Angeles Times|date=2017-11-08}}
Work
Dingle works in series, some of her most well-known of which are her paintings of maps from memory,{{cite web|url=https://renaissancesociety.org/exhibitions/403/kim-dingle/|title=Kim Dingle | Exhibitions | the Renaissance Society}} installations and paintings of Dingle's id doppelgänger Priss,{{Cite web|url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/kim-dingle|title=Brooklyn Museum: Kim Dingle|website=www.brooklynmuseum.org|access-date=2019-03-06}} the saga of Fatty and Fudge, Home Depot coloring books (anyone can do it),{{cite web|url=https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/art-talk/sizzling-weather-cool-art|title=Sizzling weather, cool art | Art Talk|date=2017-10-24}} painting blindfolded and the Crush painting series,{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-cm-kim-dingle-review-20171105-htmlstory.html|title=Kim Dingle|newspaper=LA Times|date=2017-10-28}}
=1990s=
File:Kim Dingle Studio, 2017.jpg
Her first mainstream solo exhibition was in 1991 at Richard/Bennett Gallery in Los Angeles.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9VTQjgEACAAJ|title=Kim Dingle: Portraits from the Dingle Library|date=8 June 1991|publisher=Richard/Bennett Gallery|via=Google Books}} Titled Portraits from the Dingle Library, it combined images of her mother, Cram, with portraits of iconic figures like George Washington, Queen Elizabeth II, and George Foreman as a baby.{{cite web|url=https://artillerymag.com/we-love-art-books-part-2/|title=We Love Art Books! (Part 2)|last1=April 25|first2=2019 · in|last2=Uncategorized|date=25 April 2019|website=Artillery Magazine}} Shortly after this, she created the "Paintings of the West" series employing vintage wallpaper and other imagery as her canvas along with a hundred curated drawings of "Horses by Teenage Girls".{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dYhIAQAAIAAJ&q=%22horse+drawings+by+teenage+girls%22+kim+dingle|title=Visions|date=8 June 1992|publisher=L.A. Artcore|via=Google Books}} In Untitled (Girls with Dresspole) (1998), Dingle’s girls raise a flagpole "dresspole" (a long pole with a dress attached to the top) in a pose reminiscent of the famous photograph of soldiers raising the flag on Iwo Jima.
Following works included the Never in School series, where Dingle introduced school mates, where characters Fatty and Fudge dominate in the absence of adults or boys.{{cite web|url=http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/kim_dingle1/ |title=RSS Kim Dingle Sperone Westwood, New York, USA |work=Frieze Magazine |accessdate=20 January 2014 |last=Honigman |first=Ana |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202092809/http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/kim_dingle1/ |archivedate= 2 February 2014 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.artnet.com/magazine_pre2000/reviews/mahoney/mahoney1-12-99.asp|title=artnet.com Magazine Reviews - miracles of girldom by Robert Mahoney|website=www.artnet.com}}
Dingle created three-dimensional works featuring Fatty and Fudge in 1993 named "Priss". These installations were first shown at Blum & Poe in Los Angeles and Jack Tilton in New York; they also toured European museums with Sunshine Noir: the Art of Los Angeles and The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C. Priss now resides in the permanent collections at MOCA Los Angeles.{{cite web|title=Priss, 1994|url=http://www.moca.org/museum/pc_artwork_detail.php?|publisher=The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles|accessdate=20 January 2014}}
=2000s=
Priss later took the form of a 1963 MG midget car and was shown in the 2000 Whitney Biennial.{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagobusiness.com/arts-entertainment/time-she-got-1963-mg-whitney-midnight|title=That time she got a 1963 MG into the Whitney at midnight|date=14 December 2018|website=Crain's Chicago Business}}
In 2000, with chef (actor and author) Aude Charles, Dingle opened a fine dining vegetarian restaurant in the middle of her studio and called it Fatty's. .{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-kim-dingle-review-20190318-story.html|title=Mayhem, table for 1: Artist Kim Dingle, Fatty's restaurant and her 'Lost Supper' paintings|first=David|last=Pagel|website=Los Angeles Times|date=2019-03-18}}
=2010s=
In 2017 and 2018 her work Painting Blindfolded was shown at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects and Sperone Westwater in New York City.{{cite web|url=https://hyperallergic.com/423555/kim-dingle-painting-blindfolded-sperone-westwater-2018/|title=Painting by Touch, Not by Sight|date=28 January 2018|website=Hyperallergic}} Her piece I Will Be Your Server: The Lost Supper Paintings was exhibited at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects in 2019.
= 2020s =
In 2021, artist Jamian Juliano-Villani opened a gallery with artist Billy Grant and musician Ruby Zarsky called O’Flaherty’s in which the first show was a 50-year survey of Dingle's work.{{Cite magazine|title=Dingle Does O Flahertys|url=https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/dingle-does-oflahertys|access-date=2022-01-31|magazine=The New Yorker|language=en}} The artist Lia Clay Miller notes that the show consisted of various renditions of Dingle's signature “Psycho-Tods."{{Cite web|title=Twenty-three artists reflect on 2021|url=https://www.artforum.com/print/202110/the-artists-artists-87252|access-date=2022-01-31|website=www.artforum.com|language=en-US}} Dingle's work was included in the 2022 exhibition Women Painting Women at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.{{cite web |title=Women Painting Women |url=https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/women-painting-women |website=Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth |access-date=14 May 2022 |language=en}}
Collections
Her work is included in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art,{{cite web|url=https://whitney.org/artists/9638|title=Kim Dingle|website=whitney.org}} the Laguna Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,{{cite web|url=https://www.moca.org/artist/kim-dingle|title=Kim Dingle|website=The Museum of Contemporary Art}} the Los Angeles County Museum of Art{{cite web|url=https://collections.lacma.org/node/155614|title=Kim Dingle - LACMA Collections|website=collections.lacma.org}} and the National Gallery of Art, Washington.{{cite web|url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.42163.html|title=Artist Info|website=www.nga.gov}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.kimdingle.net Official Website]
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Category:American contemporary artists
Category:American postmodern artists
Category:American women artists
Category:People from Pomona, California
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Category:Claremont Graduate University alumni