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Mercury 20 Gallery
July 5 - August 11, 2013Info
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http://www.mercurytwenty.com/
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(510) 701-4620
Hadley Williams creates compelling mixed-media pieces using security envelopes, foam, fabric, bubble wrap, correction tape, and other prefabricated materials to form abstract structures on flat surfaces. Machine-made elements, representing control and perfection, are altered and arranged by hand, creating unevenly spaced and imperfectly connected compositions of repeating rows of text, columns of measurement, and accumulations of cells. Williams takes to her work with Sisyphean tenacity, trying to humanize and make flexible the mechanistic and rigid, and to allow the impulsive and the bodily to come forward, creating tension between the ideal and the real. www.hadleywilliams.com Raised in Boston and Palo Alto, Hadley Williams received a BS in Social Work from Cornell University and an MFA in Studio Arts from John F. Kennedy University. She has been exhibiting in local galleries since 2006, including Arc Gallery in San Francisco, Branch Gallery in Oakland, and Local 123 Gallery in Berkeley. Most recently, her work was in an exhibit entitled "Paper Work" at the Oakland International Airport, curated by the Oakland Museum. Her art has been featured in California Home and Design Magazine, and on the websites of interior design firm Jute Home, Bay Area Visual Artists Network, Hanson Digital, City Picture Frame, Art Business and Pivot Gallery. Hadley's shows received two Critic's Picks reviews in the East Bay Express and a Critic's Choice review in The East Bay Monthly. She has work in corporate and private collections nationwide. She lives with her husband and daughter in the East Bay, and works in her studio in the Berkeley ActivSpace building. Mecury20 Gallery 475 25th St Oakland, CA 94612