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Mercury 20 Gallery
June 30 - August 6, 2016Info
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http://www.mercurytwenty.com/
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(510) 701-4620
Reception
July 9, 2016 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Ruth Tabancay: "Geode" (2016) crochet, acrylic yarn 18" h x 28" x 28" (photo by Dana Davis)
For Igneous Systems, Ruth Tabancay continues her body of work informed by Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry. Using various and unexpected media, she emulates rock formations, molten and solid metals, and molecular structures, all phenomena which have been created or changed by heat. In Basalt Causeway, burnt sugar hexagonal columns that slowly liquify during the show relate to the volcanic creation of the natural columns called Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. In Geode, acrylic yarn is crocheted using a hyperbolic techique in order to represent layers of precipitation that form in gas pockets of basaltic lava. A large piece, Float, is hand stitched metallized Tyvek cloth that suggests metal that is simultaneously both solid as well as molten liquid. Tabancay gets personal with her scientific slant in a graphic rendering of the molecular structure of an immuno-suppressant pharmaceutical she has been taking for two years due to a lung condition. In the piece, I Breath More Easily Now, the different colors of cast sugar correlate with various oxygenation states in blood and tissue.