Opening Reception: Friday, February 5 from 6-9pm (in conjunction with Oakland Art Murmur)

Painter Margaret Chavigny works with collage, beeswax, oils and alkyd on panels. Attentive to shifting boundaries between order and chaos, knowing and not knowing, the artist creates complex surfaces with multi-layered patterns. Interconnections – nerves, pathways, growth and fragility – are part of her primary vocabulary, woven together with waves of nuanced color.

Jill McLennan presents mixed media paintings from her series Graffiti Influenced. Working with wax encaustic, photos, oil paint and rocks on wood, McLennan’s vision is built from intimate details, personal histories and diverse stories of the urban experience.

Charlie Milgrim’s work in drawing, sculpture and installation 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.

Kathleen King makes reductive paintings and painted objects, finding the possibilities in an eccentric minimalism. The artist corresponds in earnest empathy with materials—PVC pipe, painter’s tape, scrap wood, spray paint—normally relegated to urban walls, building sites and dumpsters. She seeks to create a material display that makes a poetic connection to the adjustments we all make between present and future.

Mercury 20 is an artist-established and operated gallery located in Oakland, CA. A collective comprised of 20 members, Mercury 20 exhibits high quality, innovative work from emerging and mid-career artists, and promotes art in the community. Gallery hours are Friday 4-7pm and Saturday, 12-3pm, and by appointment.

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