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Mercury 20 Gallery

September 13 - October 21, 2012

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475 25th Street Oakland, CA 94612
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Abstraction: Pull & Sway Kathleen King, Scarred Space, 2012 spray paint on found wood
Featuring new work by five artists who approach abstraction from various angles and to varying degrees. In both paintings and sculptures (with some hybrid pieces as well), the artists' analytical, lyrical, and expressive bents reside in form, color, mark, and material. Eric Bohr's paintings incorporate an interest in texture, line and process to deliver a dialogue between symbol and emotion. www.ericbohr.30art.com Eli Geiser shows work in tune with her attraction to the varying colors and symbolism of rust, seen not just in metals but in leaves, seed pods, fur, stone, and earth. www.geisereli.com Kathleen King's paintings and painted objects offer a blunt geometry that connects the unconscious with everyday experience and vernacular culture with the vocabulary of abstraction. www.mercurytwenty.com/kathleen_king/kking.html Sculptor Leah Markos shapes materials from the domestic realm, such as wool, fabric, and thread into dramatic minimalist forms that speak of her fascination with our processes of identity formation. www.leahmarkos.com Joan Weiss' use of offbeat color, flattened space and abstracted form gives her paintings a dreamlike resonance where a free-floating emotional ambiance engages with the pure properties of paint. www.joanweiss.com Mercury 20 Gallery 475 25th St Oakland, CA Gallery hours Thu-Sat 12-6 Exhibition: Sept 13-Oct 20 Sept. 22, 4-6pm: Artist’s Panel Discussion and Reception. Moderator: Peter Samis, Associate Curator, Interpretive Media, SFMOMA.