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Mercury 20 Gallery

September 30 - October 31, 2010

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475 25th Street Oakland, CA 94612
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Floodplain Series P.K. Frizzell, Floodplain Boy, 2010
P.K. Frizzell is interested in the beauty of places struck by disaster. The artist creates her work in somewhat the way a flood would take place: she builds up surfaces with wood, used canvas, cardboard and materials found around the studio, floods them with paint and reworks them until a history and beauty emerge. Finally, she floats a shadow of a person, animal or tree branch over the surface so that the shadow (which is nothing, not even light) has a resonance with the material beneath it, like a formerly inhabited place destroyed by flood or fire. P.K. Frizzell lives and works in Berkeley, California. Her mixed-media pieces have been included in exhibitions at galleries throughout California, including Rena Bransten Gallery and Upper Market Street Gallery in San Francisco, Elizabeth Fortner Gallery in Santa Barbara, and the Muckenthaler Cultural Center in Los Angeles. When Frizzell is not engaged in art making, she's busy playing fiddle in the Bay Area bluegrass band, "Redwing."