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Kim Dingle (born 1951) is a Los Angeles-based contemporary artist working in paint, sculpture and installation. Dingle was born in Pomona, California. Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was two months old. In 1988, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cal State Los Angeles and in 1990, a Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate School. ==Series of works== Her first solo exhibition, “Portraits from the Dingle Library”, combined images of her mother, Cram, with portraits of iconic figures like George Washington, Queen Elizabeth II and George Foreman. Her inspiration for these works began with her mother’s belief that she is related to both George Washington and Queen Elizabeth II.〔 Shortly after the Cram portrait series, Kim Dingle began a critique of girlhood innocence with a character based on Dingle’s niece, Wadow, who exhibited surprising violent bursts as a result of prenatal brain damage. Wadow was a major source of inspiration for the new girl characters in Dingle's art.〔 Dingle often inserted this version of Wadow and her cohorts, the "Wild Girls", into well-known historic scenes. These images reclaim famous American myths like George Washington and the cherry tree for her fleshy heroines and question the semiotics of patriotism. For example, in ''Untitled (Girls with Dresspole)'' (1998), Dingle’s leading ladies raise a "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. The "wild girl" works led to another series of works for Dingle, this time employing the characters "Fatty" and "Fudge". Fatty, a white girl, and Fudge, a black girl, partner up to enact their diabolic whims. Their exploits and frustrations often turn on themselves, and Fatty and Fudge inevitable resort to attacking each other. In the ''Never in School'' series, Dingle introduced anonymous school mates, whom Fatty and Fudge blissfully dominate in the absence of adults or boys. Dingle created three-dimensional works featuring Fatty and Fudge in 1997 and were renamed "Priss". The Prisses took the form of stodgy, fierce little tykes made out of porcelain and sporting extra coarse steel wool hair, thick prescription glasses and crunchy white dresses with patent leather Mary Jane shoes. Dingle hired a three-year-old girl to help design the Priss installations, which included graffitied wallpapered nursery rooms with wooden cribs being broken down and used to make spears and darts, which were then used on paintings of targets. 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. Priss now resides in the permanent collection at MOCA Los Angeles. Priss later took the form of a 1963 MG midget car and was the poster child for the 2000 Whitney Biennial. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kim Dingle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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