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Mercury 20 Gallery

February 3 - February 27, 2011

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475 25th Street Oakland, CA 94612
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The Fabric of Night Resistor, 2011, giclee print face mounted on plexiglass
Opening Reception: Friday, February 4, 6-9pm (in conjunction with Oakland Art Murmur) In a departure from the brightly lit scenarios of previous work, photographer Peter Honig presents dark yet luminous vignettes reflecting dreams, fears, and subconscious landscapes populated by demons of the night. These eerie and humorous scale-model nightmares, created in miniature from the flotsam of machine shops, archaic electronic cast-offs, and junkyard debris, are photographed in the manner of luxury goods, and seem to shimmer and shiver in the dark shadow of desire. All work in the series is square format, 35 inches by 35 inches, and are giclée prints face mounted to plexi-glass. The artist, who recently moved from his longtime home in North Berkeley to the foothills of Santa Barbara, states that inspiration for the work in The Fabric of Night is “the silent, nightly confrontation between the impenetrable darkness of the parched mountains of the Las Padres and the insolent stars that mock them from the heavens.”