Come see this solo exhibition by Albany artist, Julianne Wallace Sterling. The exhibit will be held in conjunction with East Bay Open Studios 2011.
From Mercury Gallery:
Mercury Twenty Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition of new paintings by Julianne Wallace Sterling, Pushing Fairy Tales. In this latest group of work, Sterling paints about the realities, complexities and absurdities of life as a woman. With some bittersweet humor she explores the place where her gender conditioning of her youth rub up against the expectations of being a woman, wife and mother. Her paintings are about little secrets women keep to themselves. As Cornelia Otis Skinner said “...Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.” She draws from the rich history of portrait painting with this work, creating a likeness but also musing on cultural norms and ideals of women. Her subjects are drawn from the women and children in her life.
Julianne Wallace Sterling is a Bay Area painter born in Southern California. She graduated from UC Riverside with a BS in Economics and pursued post-baccalaureate studies in art at San Francisco State. Her work has been exhibited at Dacia Gallery in New York, A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art in Novato and Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland. She was also recently awarded first prize at Marin Museum of Contemporary Art’s 2010 Juried Annual. Her work has been written about in the San Francisco Chronicle and the East Bay Express. She was nominated for a Pro Arts’ 2 x 2 Solos Exhibition and Commissioning Program. Ms. Sterling’s work was recently selected for A.I.R. Gallery’s 9th Biennial in Brooklyn in March 2011.
