HAYLIE JIMENEZ & SYDNIE JIMENEZ
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITION
GIVE EM’ PLEASURE. GIVE EM’ HELL
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITION (MAIN GALLERY)
EXHIBITION DATES: 26TH FEB 2022 to 2ND APRIL 2022
OPENING RECEPTION: SAT, FEB 26TH FROM 6:00 - 9:00 PM
GALLERY HOURS: TUES - SAT / 1 PM - 6 PM
NEW IMAGE ART. 7920 SANTA MONICA BLVD. LOS ANGELES. CA. 90046

New Image Art is pleased to present GIVE EM’ PLEASURE, GIVE EM’ HELL, a two-person exhibition by Haylie Jimenez and Sydnie Jimenez opening February 26th, 2022 from 6-9 PM.

Sydnie Jimenez and Haylie Jimenez are a force of change. Their art represents the youth and statehood of 2022. They both excavate their reality and produce works of kinship and the self. The common catalyst of their creations is the revolutionary and anarchic attitude embedded in each sculpture and drawing they conceive. Undergoing any measure of comfort and social ease, the Jimenez twins operate through visual poetics of deconstruction and chaos, materializing in the vestments a certain zeitgeist that waved to the loss of stabilizing social and cultural coordinates of the post-pandemic world.

The figures central to Sydnie and Haylie’s are a mirror of the young black and brown people in their lives. Serving as a homage to the girls, gays, and theys is a form of liberation, emphasizing the codes of style within their apparatus. For Sydnie, whose main practice is ceramics, she draws her inspiration from those in her immediate surroundings, which is akin to the subject matter of Haylie's work. This is praxis, where both sisters delve into their circumstances of living in an age of uncertainty, a time where the young revolt against archaic systems of white supremacy and oppression. Their figures signal their politics through the clothing and attitude of their artworks. These aesthetics of the queer punk scene, hype beasts world and internet-core take center stage in the pieces they make. Each work Haylie and Sydnie produce is the amalgamation of context and influence from their apparatus.

In these figurative works, we see self-expression through style and presentation as a form of self-autonomy which can be seen as resistant to a patriarchal society rooted in white supremacy. Although grief and anger are pretty prevalent in some of the works, these drawings and figures also relay affirming and relatable energy because of the communities they form and the way in which they interact with each other creating safe spaces and inevitable joy within these chosen families. These seemingly contradictory feelings align with their identities as biracial twins – as alike, but different – and these intimate works hold space for both grief and celebration in a bittersweet world.

Haylie Jimenez was born in Orlando, FL but spent most of her adolescence in rural north Georgia along with her twin. She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in May 2020. Her work depicts/centers around black and brown queer femmes, either in normal everyday settings based on her own lived experiences, sometimes including mythical or magical elements to emphasize certain marginalized realities. Her practice consists of drawings, printmaking, and animation. She is interested in drawing as a form of documentation and in the various ways drawing styles are informed and how lived experiences inform style as well as subject matter.

Sydnie Jimenez was born in Orlando, FL (1997) and spent most of her childhood in north Georgia from which she draws much inspiration. She recently graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA 2020) focusing on ceramic sculpture and is a recipient of the Windgate Fellowship (2020). Ms. Jimenez is currently doing a residency at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana.

GIVE EM’ PLEASURE. GIVE EM’ HELL ARTWORKS

HAYLIE JIMENEZ & SYDNIE JIMENEZ COLLABORATION

GIVE EM’ PLEASURE. GIVE EM’ HELL INSTALLATION

HAYLIE JIMENEZ ARTWORKS

SYDNEY JIMENEZ ARTWORKS