Current Events
August 5 – 28th 2010
Lumen:: 2010
Mercury 20
475 25th St. (at Telegraph)
Oakland, CA 94612
Thursday-Saturday 12-6pm and by appointment
510-701-4620
Reception Friday, August 6th
6-9 pm in conjunction with Oakland’s Art Murmur
Mary Curtis Ratcliff’s current work emerges from two worlds; photographic vision and her own handwork. The artist begins by taking photographs that combine a feeling of peace with mysterious complexity. Sometimes, she leaves the images untouched, but more often she transforms them with colored pencils, transfer, collage and layering “I am always looking for abstraction, shadow, and reflection,” Ratcliff says, “because those images are the ones on which I can build.”