Opening: Friday August 6th (in conjunction with Oakland Art Murmur) 6-9pm
Mary Curtis Ratcliff’s current work emerges from two worlds; photographic vision and her own handwork. The artist begins by taking photographs that combine a feeling of peace with mysterious complexity. Sometimes, she leaves the images untouched, but more often she transforms them with colored pencils, transfer, collage and layering “I am always looking for abstraction, shadow, and reflection,” Ratcliff says, “because those images are the ones on which I can build.”
Ratcliff attended the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. She has exhibited in nineteen solo exhibitions and over 80 group shows. Her work is in more than 80 private collections including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco – Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts and the Oakland Museum of California.
