Date/Time
Date(s) - 02/13
12:00pm - 6:00pm
Location
Mercury 20 Gallery
Address
475 25th Street
Oakland, CA
94612
Mesmerized by esoteric, spray-painted scribblings that utility workers use to communicate with each other on the sidewalks and streets, photographer CHARLIE MILGRIM imagines their language as a “street code” so cryptic that only those in their gang can decipher it. While the messages have a limited palette of fluorescent pink and yellow, she has taken this as an invitation to expand these symbols, investigating their potential as alien communiques.
CHARLIE MILGRIM is a multimedia artist from New York City who moved to the Bay Area in her 20s to attend California College of the Arts, and later received her MFA from U.C. Berkeley. She has since participated in the Bay Area arts community through exhibition and curation and has been a member of the Mercury 20 Gallery for the past 9 years. Milgrim’s work examines the ties and lies between history, science and culture, whether considering environmental degradation, cultural detritus, or the relationship between money and militarism. She works with a wide range of materials, from photography to tar paper made three dimensional, to precariously arranged found objects.
Artists Reception: Saturday, February 15, 4-6pm
First Friday Art Murmur: March 6, 6-9pm.
