^{Take Back Your Mink :: 2004}

Reception
Friday, May 8, 2009, 7-9 pm
in conjunction with
El Cerrito’s Stockton Avenue Art Stroll

Fingado Art Gallery
7025 Stockton Ave., El Cerrito, CA
Th-Sat 12-5:30 PM
Wed. by appt. 510.593.9081

Upcoming Events:
Pro Arts East Bay Open Studio 2009
Spring Sale
Many works discounted

Sat – Sun, June 6 and 7
11 am to 5 pm
809 B Hearst Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94710
510.649.7960

Directions to studio: Take University Ave. exit off I-80. Make first
Left onto Sixth Street, then turn left on Hearst. #809 is on the right.
Park across from Spenger’s on 4th Street.
April

^{Spanish Café :: 2001, Digital Inkjet Print}

Please join me this Spring in my upcoming solo show:

Artist’s Gallery Talk and Reception
Wednesday, April 1, 11:30 – 1 p.m.

The exhibition will include seven brand new works and one multi-lingual sculpture that was designed to travel to the 2000 exhibition in Osaka, Japan. Other works will include a grouping of small original pieces mounted on wooden panels and digital inkjet prints.

The Hess Gallery is at Pine Manor College, which I attended briefly in the Sixties before going on to the Rhode Island School of Design.
October

^{Travancore lll :: Chosen Terrain, Mercury 20}

Chosen Terrain, my two person show at the Mercury 20 Gallery was a great success. The exhibit was well attended, and I was pleased to see many artist friends and introduce them to my current series: Arborescence.

^{Debabellizer :: Chosen Terrain, Mercury 20}

Chosen Terrain, received attention from 2 East Bay publications and was given positive critical notice.

“Ratcliff prints large gray-scale digital photographs of landscape motifs from her travels and draws and paints on them, sometimes also adding collage and transfers, creating complex montages that play with spacial ambiguity: abstraction and depiction go in and out of focus as we visually negotiate these hybrid spaces, equally centripetal and expansive, in which far and near intermingle, suggesting ritual transport and transformation.” DeWitt Cheng, East Bay Express

To coincide with the exhibition, with Peter’s help, I published
Arborescence, a book which details my current series and reproduces the works in full color. Thanks to the magic of computer animation you can page through the first few spreads.

Happy Fall! I hope this finds you well.

September

Chosen Terrain

Mercury 20 is an artist-run gallery in downtown Oakland. Our collective consists of 20 local artists of various disciplines. Each month we host a 2-person show from members in our collective in the front gallery. The rest of our space is dedicated to the work of our other 18 members.

June

During the first weekend of June, Mary Curtis Ratcliff will host an East Bay Pro Arts Open Studio.

When: June 7th and 8th ~ 11am to 5pm
Where: 809B Hearst Avenue, Berkeley, CA
Contact: 510.649.7960

May

Mary Curtis Ratcliff joins Mercury 20, an artist-run gallery in downtown Oakland. This collective consists of twenty local artists of various disciplines. Each month they host a two-person show in their store front. The rest of the space is dedicated to the work the other eighteen members. In addition to regular weekend hours, Mercury 20 is a proud participant in Oakland’s Art Murmur.

March

M.C.R. takes part in a collaborative show with her peers.

R.I.S.D. Northern California Alumni Biennial
“Exploring the full range of artistic expression, the R.I.S.D. Northern California Alumni Biennial honors and celebrates the work of Rhode Island School of Design alumni who are now living and working in Northern California. Juried by René de Guzman, the new senior curator of Painting and Sculpture art at the Oakland Museum of California, the R.I.S.D. Biennial features work by 36 alums representing several generations and styles.” -novoscene

February
Mountian & Sea, Kerikeri 2007
M.C.R returns from a residency at New Pacific Studios in Mt. Bruce, New Zealand. Her focus during the month-long stay included watercolor, printmaking, pen, & ink. A detailed conversation of her residency can be found here