February Art Murmur Opening (First Friday)

Evidence of Love, collages by Ce Ce Iandoli

Collections from Within, mixed media by Chela Fielding

Crowd

painting by Kathleen King, sculpture by Charlie Milgrim

Crowd, refreshments

Sculpture by Mary V. Marsh

Painting by David Seiler

Sculpture by Aaron Geman

Mercury 20's Jill McLennan exhibiting in ProArts' Juried Annual

Juried Annual 2009

Selections by Ali Subotnick
Curator, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

February 17 - March 22

Artists' Reception: Thursday, February 26, 6 - 8 pm
Artists' Talk: Saturday, March 14, 1 - 3 pm



The critically acclaimed Juried Annual is an exhibition of member artists that consistently showcases the best new work in the region. Original works are juried by digital submissions by a national or international curator. Hundreds of artists submit work digitally in a variety of media (including painting, photography, sculpture, textile, glass, installation, digital, installation and performance art) for consideration, and over 1,000 pieces are reviewed for exhibition inclusion by an esteemed member of the Bay Area art world.

Selected artists include:

Stephen Albair, Peter Andrea, Alexis Babayan, Jenny E. Balisle, Robert Blackburn, Louis DeLuco, Pamela Merory Dernham, Adam Friedman, Richard Gilles, Julia Goodman, Ira Hawkins, John Hundt, Harley Jensen, Bill Lo, Seth Lower, Mary Alison Lucas, Katie McCann, Jill McLennan, Emily McLeod, Glenna Mills, Kate Moore, Mary Mortimer, Laura Sackett, Sanjit Sethi, Amy Todd, Susan Tuttle, Holly Wach, Jan Wattan, and Susan Wolf.

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Maya Kabat at SFMOMA rental gallery Fort Mason...

Maya Kabat, Ari Salomon, Mari Andrews

February 04 - March 13, 2009
Main gallery

The SFMOMA Artists Gallery will feature the work of Bay Area artists Mari Andrews, Ari Salomon, Maya Kabat in a show that runs from February 4 through March 13, 2009. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

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Charlie Milgrim and Eric Bohr's "Vexing History" to open Friday, March 6th

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For additional information, or high resolution images, please contact mercurytwenty@gmail.com or call Kathleen at 510.701.4620

Eric Bohr & Charlie Milgrim
Vexing History


Mercury 20 Gallery
25 Grand Ave. (at Broadway)
Oakland, CA 94612

Exhibition dates: March 6 – March 28, 2009

Opening Reception: Friday, March 6 from 6-9pm (in conjunction with Oakland Art Murmur)
Afternoon After: Saturday, March 7 from 12-4pm (in conjunction with Oakland Art Murmur)


East Bay artist Charlie Milgrim sees the future through a lens of the shaken up past, beyond the precipice of the present. Milgrim's work in sculpture, installation and drawing embodies the interplay of art, science, and fate, as she works with materials that harness gravity as an active element. Using materials that would otherwise become landfill, such as discarded bowling balls, the artist re-contextualizes them to function as conceptual reminders of delicately balanced or potentially destructive forces both natural and political.


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 in San Francisco, 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. Her studio is in Berkeley, next to the railroad tracks.

The mixed media paintings of Eric Bohr probe the lasting effects of history and the artist's search for meaning under a close and often blank grey sky. Growing up in a family of recently urbanized farmers, the bleak horizons and nearly monochromatic palette of the Michigan landscape inspire Bohr's memories and imagination. Bohr's work chronicles the loss of open, working farmland as well as the subsequent closing of automobile factories that drew many from the farm to the cities, and the migration and dispersion of families as social and economic systems collapse and regenerate.


Eric Bohr was born and raised in Lansing, Michigan and apprenticed with Michael Jacobs in Venice, California. He has shown in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City. He currently lives and works in Emeryville.

Chela Fielding and Ce Ce Iandoli featured in the East Bay Express

Chela Fielding and Ce Ce Iandoli were written up in the
East Bay Express...

Welcome to the Mercury Twenty Blog...

Mercury Twenty is an artist-run cooperative gallery located at 25 Grand Avenue in Oakland, CA.

We are comprised of twenty contemporary artists residing in the Bay Area.
Our gallery promotes monthly exhibits in conjunction with the Oakland Art Murmur's First Friday gallery walk.

Our gallery's website at

http://www.mercurytwenty.com

features portfolios of our artist's work and information about our exhibtions.

We'll be using this blog to update you about the work of our artist's, events at the gallery, and other stuff of interest.