Exhibition dates: Dec. 2 2010 – Jan. 29 2011
Two Opening Receptions (in conjunction with Oakland Art Murmur):
Friday December 3 6-9pm
Friday January 7 6-9pm
Artists’ Talk: Saturday December 4 2pm
image: Margaret Chavigny Mary V. Marsh Dave Meeker
GROUP SHOW
Mercury Multiples: Artist’s Editions
Mercury 20 Gallery is proud to present a selection of limited edition Artist’s Multiples created by current gallery members. These works provide affordable acquisitions for collectors as well as adventurous alternatives for holiday gift-givers. From Marcel Duchamp’s Ready-mades to Conceptual non-objects to the boxes books and strategies of Fluxus to Correspondence Art (distributed by mail outside the gallery system) Artist’s Multiples have an outsider history with an insider cachet.
Continuing this history some of the exhibiting artists present work that is outside their usual materials and contexts. Charlie Milgrim bakes up some whimsical Duchamp Cookies while painter Margaret Chavigny explores the repeated image in her drawing series Half Empty/Half Full. Taking a break from painting and sculpture P.K. Frizzell and Kathleen King show new photographs of paint cans/lids and wooden houses respectively. Painter Jill McLennan presents hand-pulled prints based on her photos and Mary Curtis Ratcliff shows photographs taken in India and Cambodia.
Also showing photographs though in a smaller size than his signature work is Peter Honig. Dave Meeker’s Monopoly Homes are sculpted from pennies and Julie Alvarado’s set of small drawings called Trailer Life is influenced by vintage magazine photos. Maya Kabat shows drawings from her MYBH Series while Julianne Sterling is Waiting for Snow White in small oil on panel paintings. Jamie Morgan and Mary V. Marsh show prints along with Marshﾒs handmade artistﾒs book The Coffee Diary. Laura van Duren offers a selection of her cast resin Birds. Mixed media work by Jo Ann Biagini and quilted squares by Chela Fielding round out the show.
link to view a selection of images from "Multiples"
Selected Images from Mercury Twenty Multiples
Exhibition dates: Dec. 2 2010 – Jan. 29 2011
Two Opening Receptions (in conjunction with Oakland Art Murmur):
Friday December 3 6-9pm
Friday January 7 6-9pm
Artists’ Talk: Saturday December 4 2pm
Julie Alvarado
Trailer Life
graphite on paper
3" x 4"
2010
Maya Kabat
MYBH Series
drawing on board
10" x 10"
2010
Jill McLennan
Urban Graffix
linoleum cut
6" x 6"
2010
Mary Curtis Ratcliff
Cherry Apple Palms
8" x 10"
2007
Laura van Duren
Birds
resin mixed media
2009
Peter Honig
I Could Learn To Love You
from the Series "The Fabric of Night" 2010
Giclee Print face-mounted to plexiglass
15" x 15"
Kathleen King
House 66th St. Oakland
East Bay West series 2010
5 x 7" dye-pigment photo prints
edition of 50
Margaret Chavigny
Half Empty/ Half Full
gouache ink collage on rice paper
5"x7"
2010
Dave Meeker
Monopoly Hotel
pennies solder
2009
Julianne Sterling
Waiting for Snow White
Mixed Media on wood panel
8" x 8"
2010
Jamie Morgan
Hudson Green
2003
Monotype 25" H x 31" W framed
Mary V. Marsh
The Coffee Diary Book
Artistﾒs book
Inkjet on paper hand sewn coffee filter endpaper
24 pages 4.25ﾔ x 2.75ﾔ x .25ﾔ
2007
Mary V. Marsh
Pink Section
Blockprint on newspaper
21ﾔ x 11ﾔ
2010
Eric Bohr
Blue Still Life #2
mixed media on cardboard
7.5" x 10" (excluding frame)
2010
Charlie Milgrim
Subduction Zone
India ink stamp on Paper
2010
P.K. Frizzell
Paint Bucket series
8ﾔ x 8ﾔ
digital prints
2010