Mary Burger’s (“Excerpt from Red Dust Tangle,” Issue 2) project Razzle Dazzle Melanism will be opening at
Compound Gallery and Studios
1167 65th Street
Oakland, CA 94608
Opening reception Saturday, June 28 from 6 to 9pm
Regular hours Wed through Sun, 12-7pm
The show is on view June 28 through August 3
Two panels, each 78 x 78 inches (smaller prints also available)
Toni Gentilli, Curator:
“Mary Burger’s project Razzle Dazzle Melanism ponders biomimicry as a natural defense mechanism, technological innovation, and artistic strategy. Immediately the installation assails you with its stark graphic formalism and larger-than-life scale, but don’t let that distract you from the content. The title of the project and bold patterns it employs reference a style of camouflage used to disguise British and American naval battleships during World War I. Reconfigured in the shape of butterflies, the patterns remind viewers that human strategies of disguise often take cues from visual trickery in the natural world.”