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Mercury 20 Gallery

May 10 - June 17, 2012

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475 25th Street Oakland, CA 94612
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Dark Alliances + This Body + From Here to There Julianne Wallace Sterling
Artists' Reception: Saturday, May 12th from 6-9 pm Artist's Talk: Saturday, June 9th 4-6 pm Oakland Art Murmur First Fridays: June 1st from 6-9pm Charlie Milgrim: Dark Alliances Asphalt building paper, heavy and black, provides the background and scaffold for Charlie Milgrim's recent works. Nuclear cooling towers glow and radiate a soft fluorescence and hover in the black-ground of space. Black paper planes, shadowy stealth bombers, are folded and creased into the angular abstractions and dark geometry of the military machine. Creation and destruction conjoin uneasily in our technocratic state. Charlie Milgrim was born in New York City. She received a BFA from California College of the Arts and an MFA from UC Berkeley. She has exhibited her work at the Oakland Museum, the Haines Gallery and Gallery 16 in San Francisco, OK Harris in New York City and has work in many private collections including the Di Rosa Collection in Napa, CA. -- Julianne Wallace Sterling: this body East Bay painter Julianne Wallace Sterling presents this body, a study in paint made flesh. In her latest series the artist considers the carnal experience we all share of living in a body, our vessel, home and means by which we encounter life. Her painting focuses primarily on the realities, complexities and absurdities of life as a woman Julianne Wallace Sterling was born in Southern California. She graduated from UC Riverside with a BS in Economics and pursued post-baccalaureate studies in art at San Francisco State. Her work has been exhibited at Dacia Gallery in New York, A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art in Novato and Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland. She was also awarded first prize at Marin Museum of Contemporary Art's 2010 Juried Annual. Her work has been written about in the San Francisco Chronicle and the East Bay Express. Ms. Sterling's work was selected for A.I.R. Gallery's 9th Biennial in Brooklyn in March 2011. -- Gallery Artists: From Here to There Mercury 20 Gallery is pleased to present Terryl Dunn, Jill McLennan and Mary Curtis Ratcliff in the group exhibition From Here to There. These three well-traveled artists show painting and mixed media work inspired by time and place both far away and closer to home. Terryl Dunn presents paintings and works on paper from his recent series titled Megathrust. Inspired by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Dunn explores the explosive forces of nature, imagining energy as it moves through the different elements, examining how line and mass can signal speed, reverberation, and cross current. Jill McLennan's paintings portray a contemporary city in ruins as it is taken over by nature and graffiti. The paintings are set in a future that looks back towards present wasteful systems and shows the strength of nature to reclaim the earth. Graffiti forms become part of the urban structure as they take on a life of their own. The work of Mary Curtis Ratcliff looks back to a time before the internet when messages were conveyed by actual birds (Martha, the last passenger pigeon) or letters carried by large, cumbersome airplanes around the globe. Now correspondence is instantaneously transmitted at the speed of light.......And light, in turn, transmits its energy signal underneath the toy boats of the children of Paris. -- Founded in 2006, Mercury 20 is a contemporary art gallery established, supported and operated by East Bay artists. Mercury 20 maintains a venue for artists to exhibit, develop, and advance their work and is committed to exhibiting art of diverse media and content. Exhibitions rotate monthly and the gallery presents a well-attended opening event every first Friday in conjunction with the Oakland Art Murmur.
Dark Alliances + This Body + From Here to There Charlie Milgrim