Jil Weinstock

Available Works

At a distance, Jil Weinstock’s works are minimal, painted tributes to Gene Davis or Barnett Newman. Up close, too, but with a twist: Weinstock’s stripes are rubber-encased zippers and Armani shirts, her monochrome squares contain blouses and undergarments. In Yardage, her first solo exhibition at Davidson, Weinstock slyly addresses fashion and fetish with her multicolored cast sculptures.

Jet Black, a floor piece, is an installation of flat squares of rubber containing black nylons. Weinstock invites the viewer to walk on the work (without shoes or socks) and experience its squishy, sticky surface. This sculpture mimics the experience of walking on a Carl Andre sculpture and heightens it with erotic undertones. It’s one thing to break the taboo of walking on art in a public space, but quite another to walk on a sculpture in full view of others while barefoot, on a sensual surface, over intimate apparel. Weinstock’s Nighties series consists of carefully tucked, folded, and pinched garments that belonged to her mother and grandmother, encased inside shellac-like cast rubber hexagons. The visual effect evokes both nostalgia and voyeurism. Black Cherry, a sixteen foot long installation of multicolored zippers, comments on the hypocrisy of fashion: these closed zippers can only be opened half way, or not at all; as fashion promises to reveal, its purpose is to conceal.

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