ANDIE DINKIN: SLIPPERS GOLD, OYSTERS COLD

Half Gallery announces Andie Dinkin’s first major New York solo exhibition “Slippers Gold, Oysters Cold”.

October 4 – November 2, 2024

“I like slippers gold, I like oysters cold and my garden of mixed flowers and the sky full of towers, and traffic in the streets and Mallard's sweets and Bendel's clothes and Nat Lewis hose, and Tappe's window arrays and crystal fixtures and my pictures, and Walt Disney cartoons and colored balloons.” - Florine Stettheimer

Andie Dinkin takes the title of her first major New York solo exhibition from a snippet of prose by her favorite painter, Florine Stettheimer, mid-century chronicler of New York society. Both Andie and Florine posses a proclivity for group scenes, particularly parties. There’s something Bosch-like about the competing vignettes under one tent: decadence, romance, heartbreak, jealousy, camaraderie, loneliness, shared consciousness. It’s an opportunity for a pastiche of human activity and just as fleeting as a dance performance.

Cementing the ethereal, capturing atmosphere for posterity, inviting us as onlookers to the thrill of spectacle: all factor into Dinkin’s calculus. She will often include a curtain or some suggestion of a stage. “I read that Cecily Brown likes to paint an outline around her scenes sometimes, because it echoes the composition of a tapestry in that by containing a environment, you free it up to house all the madness you want,” says Dinkin.

Andie Dinkin is best known in her hometown of Los Angeles for the giant mural she created for the restaurant Gigi’s in Hollywood. Her work is also on view at The Carlyle Hotel in New York, which nicely dovetails with her love of Bemelmans Bar. She is in the permanent collection of  The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.