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Mercury 20 Gallery

January 5 - February 12, 2012

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475 25th Street Oakland, CA 94612
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Divine: A Miscellany of Timeless Works Mary Curtis Ratcliffe "Vestal"
Artists' Reception: Saturday, January 21 from 4-6 pm. Artist's Talk & Performance at 5pm. Oakland Art Murmur First Friday Openings: Friday, January 6 & Friday, February 3 from 6-9pm A look at an extended period of artistic activity by Berkeley artist Mary Curtis Ratcliff, the work in this exhibition links the feminist spirituality movement of the 1970s, a pilgrimage by the artist to Malta in 2001 to visit the ruins of 6,000-year-old goddess temples, and the contemporary feminine represented in pop culture where visions of feminine beauty are represented as fashion plates in paper doll form. Along the way, Ratcliff plays with elegance and banality, archaic and modern, sober and comic, sacred and profane. Mary Curtis Ratcliff attended the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. She has exhibited in twenty solo exhibitions and over 80 group shows. Her work is in more than 80 private collections including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts and the Oakland Museum of California. --- Interlocking Terrain
 Curated by Charlie Milgrim Mercury 20 is pleased to present "Interlocking Terrain," a group show of work by gallery artists, curated by artist Charlie Milgrim. This show explores connections and juxtapositions between man-made and natural environments and their relationships to inner geographies.