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Mercury 20 Gallery

March 3 - March 26, 2011

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475 25th Street Oakland, CA 94612
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Inside Out P.K. Frizzell, Inside Out
· Collectors' Preview: Thursday, March 3, 5-8pm · Opening Reception: Friday, March 4 from 6-9pm (in conjunction with Oakland Art Murmur) Special musical performances Thursday & Friday by Oakland-based Singer/Songwriter Lila Nelson (lilanelson.org) · Artists' Talk: Saturday, March 12, 2pm Fascinated with the hidden interiors of our anatomies and our experiences, artist P.K. Frizzell finds our inner lives and the insides of our bodies vastly larger than our exterior physical dimensions. Our brains contain more neural connections than the number of planets in the entire universe and our thoughts, emotions, imagination and aspirations stretch infinitely beyond the boundaries of our bodies. Yet, the insides of our own bodies are a mystery to us. Billions of events occur about which we are usually entirely unaware: our blood pumps, cells divide, bacteria and viruses thrive. An entire universe exists within each of us. The work presented in Inside Out explores these ideas by using x-rays of common objects (dolls, cat toys, a purse, a shoe, etc.) to reveal the mystery hidden in the ordinary. The artist also makes use of lenses to reveal how interior space can be larger than the external dimension of its container. 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."