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Martina Johnston Gallery

April 9 - May 23, 2011

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1201 Sixth Street, 2nd Floor
Berkeley, CA 94710 Berkeley, CA 94710
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Residue Renee Delores, "Mare Imperceptum," Duratrans, 40 x 30 inches, 2011.
Opening Reception on Saturday April 9th, 2011 from 4 to 8 p.m. With a sublime attention to detail, Delores crafts objects in an expansive variety of media, always returning to the primal form of the circle — a spitbite darkened ring inked and pressed on paper, worn clothes twisted into a spiral mat, a dimmed kaleidoscope cut from bright old work, a silvered spiderweb replica sickened by stimulants, ashes of a fire consuming correspondence, a glowing indigo image of a scalloped pool, a slag specked ingot of melted down inheritance, a belled and hairy Kukeri chasing life into death backwards. Much of the work in the show consists of what Delores calls “residue” — trails of crumbs left unfinished or unsuccessful, items no longer of use, effects too painful or too beautiful, entities that bear too heavy a psychic undercurrent. When one lives with an object it becomes imbued with many invisible forces; she considers it important to release these back into the world. The Martina }{ Johnston Gallery will be open on Sundays from 1 - 4 p.m. for the duration of the show.