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Mercury 20 Gallery

December 3 - January 24, 2011

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http://www.mercurytwenty.com/
(510) 701-4620

475 25th Street Oakland, CA 94612

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Chela Fielding: La Fe

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 Chela Fielding' creates installation and sculpture using a range of materials from wood and metal to rubber and cloth, along with found objects like shoes, paint, drawers, old letters, and photographs. In one of the artist's latest sculptures, two thick wires are threaded with a prized collection of found objects which she has collected for a number of years. Beaded like an oversized necklace are a paint brush, a plastic horse, an old band aid tin, a wooden cow, and painted wooden numbers, among other items. The juxtapositions are as unique as the objects themselves and the work displays the colors and patinas of the past. Fielding also presents two energetic, larger than life canvases covered in layers of pencil, pen, oil pastel and paint. Through the layers, text is written and erased and written again; images emerge: an arm, a balloon, an outline of a bear. You can almost derive some kind of meaning, grasp a story but then it disappears and you are left with a mystery beyond reach. The artist has also been exploring and experimenting with new media and developing her unique brand of humor. In this show she unveils six new photographs of herself in Photoshop-bright colors. Chela Fielding graduated with a BFA in Painting, and a minor in Film, from Humboldt State University. After her undergraduate work she joined the Peace Corps for two years, working on Hillside Farming in an isolated village in the hills of Ocotopeque, Honduras. Returning to Oakland, she worked as an after-school art teacher for five years. She went on to receive her MFA in Sculpture from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Currently, Chela is site-coordinator for a board and care resident facility for adults with mental disabilities in Marin County.