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Mercury 20 Gallery

December 3 - January 24, 2011

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475 25th Street Oakland, CA 94612
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Mercury Multiples: Artist’s Editions Peter Honig, I Could Learn to Love You, giclee print
Mercury 20 Gallery is proud to present a selection of limited edition Mercury 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 artists are presenting 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. Turning from painting and sculpture, P.K. Frizzell and Kathleen King show photographs of paint buckets and flatland houses respectively. Painter Jill McLennan presents hand-pulled prints based on her photos and Mary Curtis Ratcliff shows photographs taken in India and Cambodia. Peter Honig is also showing photographs, at a smaller size than his signature work. Dave Meeker's Monopoly Homes are constucted 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 with her small oil on panel paintings. Jamie Morgan and Mary V. Marsh show prints along with Marsh's handmade artist's book, The Coffee Diary. Laura van Duren offers a selection of her cast resin Birds and Crab Claws. Mixed media work by Jo Ann Biagini and quilted squares by Chela Fielding round out the show.