Event
Julianne Wallace Sterling: unmoorPost an Event »
Mercury 20 Gallery
September 24 - October 31, 2015Info
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http://www.mercurytwenty.com/
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(510) 701-4620
Reception
October 17, 2015 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Image: Julianne Wallace Sterling: "unmoor" (2015) oil and graphite on panel, 60 x 50 in., (photo by the artist)
In unmoor, Julianne Wallace Sterling gives us figurative painting driven by the duality of paint made flesh and of flesh unmoored from practical gravity. The show includes large nudes in oils on panel, luxurious in form while stark in composition. The work reflects the rich history of portrait painting with figures that are exquisitely colored and drafted, yet with an underlying discomfort and strain. The artist also extends her themes into non-traditional media with nudes composed from Sharpie pen on styrofoam meat trays. Sterling's paintings explore the realities, complexities and absurdities of life as a woman, and this body of work illuminates the contingency and ambiguity of this social and cultural setting.