On November 6th , 2009 I will be a part of a four person show titled Swan Song. It will be held at our collective gallery, Mercury Twenty on Grand near Broadway in Oakland. The reception will be from 5 to 9 pm during the Oakland Art Murmur. Hope to see you there, I will have some very new work that will be for sale.

The studio sale date is, to May 3rd 11 to 3 pm, 2009. The stuff available is mostly scrap wood, a few stretcher bars, and wood surfaces for painting, some great work tables, beat up chairs and stools, and lots of random and unique chacha stuff for art making too difficult to list exactly what. Hope to see you all there.

Third Street Studio is slated to be demolished May 11th 2009. I will be having one last open studio and garage sale of collected old wood and supplies sometime in April. If you would like to view art work sooner or are interested in buying random materials, please feel free to contact me. All of my art is for sale, with excellent reduced prices for the sculptures, please come and take a look. Thank You. Chela

Chela Fielding
Collections from Within

Ce Ce Iandoli
Evidence of Love

Mercury 20 Gallery
25 Grand Ave. (at Broadway)
Oakland, CA 94612

Exhibition dates: February 6 – February 28, 2009

Opening Reception: Friday, February 6 from 6—9pm (part of First Friday/Art Murmur)
Afternoon After: Saturday, February 7 from 12—4pm (part of First Friday/Art Murmur)

Chela Fielding has always been a collector. For the past few months, she has been a pregnant collector. In her second show at Mercury 20 Gallery, Collections from Within, Fielding focuses on intuitive thoughts, feelings and inspirations encompassing mind and body as she goes through the nurturing and transformative process of growing a baby. Drawings, paintings and small mixed-media panels incorporate the artist's spontaneous, inventive, and humorous use of found materials. Ever wonder if pregnant women dumpster dive? Chela can now answer that question for you.

Chela Fielding graduated with a BFA in Painting, and a minor in Film, from Humboldt State University. After her undergraduate work she joined the Peace Corps for two years, working on Hillside Farming in an isolated village in the hills of Ocotopeque, Honduras. Returning to Oakland, she worked as an after-school art teacher for five years. She went on to receive her MFA in Sculpture from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Fielding currently works as a house manager for people with mental disabilities in San Rafael, CA.

Retrograde: New Work at Mercury 20

Mercury 20 Gallery
25 Grand Ave. (at Broadway)
Oakland, CA 94612

December 5, 2008 – January 31, 2009

Hi everyone, this is going to be a really great show through the end of January
let me know if you want to meet me there! Mary

Opening Reception: Friday, December 5th from 6 – 9pm (in conjunction with Oakland Art Murmur).
Also: Afternoon After: Saturday, December 6th from 12 – 4pm (in conjunction with Oakland Art Murmur).


Oakland's Mercury 20 Gallery presents its out-with-the-old /in-with-the-New Year group show Retrograde: New Work at Mercury 20, an overview of recent painting, sculpture, photography, drawing and mixed media by East Bay artists. The works in this show review an intense period encompassing collapse, confusion, hope and change, and reflect on the underlying patterns that came to light.

We are especially pleased to present the work of five artists new to the gallery in 2008:Aaron Geman, Eric Bohr, Chela Fielding, Jill McLennan, and Mary Curtis Ratcliff, as well as the work of our continuing members: Julie Alvarado, Jo Ann Biagini, Margaret Chavigny, Peter Honig, Ce Ce Iandoli, Maya Kabat, Kathleen King, Tarra Lyons, Mary V. Marsh, Charlie Milgrim, Jamie Morgan, David Seiler, Laura Van Duren, Anna Vaughan and Joan Weiss.

Mercury 20 is an artist-run exhibition space located in the heart of downtown Oakland; part of the emerging arts district in the Broadway/Telegraph corridor.

Gallery hours are Fridays 4 – 7pm and Saturdays 12 noon – 3pm, or by appointment.
www.mercurytwenty.com

New Work I Will Be Showing at Mercury 20, SAVE THE DATE!

Misremembering You

Chela Fielding Presents New Works
July 4th, 2008 Art Opening From 6 to 9pm in conjunction with the Oakland Art Murmur.

Show is up from July 4th to July 28th
Gallery Hours are Friday and Saturday 12 to 3 or call Chela for an appointment
510 414 1500.

Location: 25 Grand Ave. (at Broadway), Oakland, CA 94612

I have been accepted to live and work in a cottage in this park! I will be there from August 3rd until August 17th making a new body of work. I imagin them to be small scultpures and or 3 dimensional drawings/paintings.

I am a new member of the Mercury 20 Artists Collective Gallery in Oakland. I will show one piece every month. Currently on display is Shadow Fishing. I will also have a show there once a year with another artist in the front of the gallery. The Gallery is located at 25 Grand at Broadway and is a part of the Oakland Art Murmur that takes place first Fridays of every month.

I will be having a show at 21 Grand from January 17th to February 17th 2008 with a reception on February 1 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm in conjunction with Oakland Art Murmur first Fridays. Hope to see you there and would love your feed back, thank you.

I will be showing Shadow Fishing at the Emery Art Show.
*The reception will be held
October 5th, 2007
6 until 9 pm
*the show will continue to be open to the public until October 28th
11am to 6pm daily
*5885 Hollis Street
Emerystation East
Emeryville, C

-where the trains go by-
2222 Third St. at Addison West Berkeley, Ca
*for a map please click on the link http://xml1.maps.yahoo.com/prn
*Third street is not a street, it is the railroad tracks. Please enter the gate beside the tracks on Addison St. and drive all the way into the back parking lot, look for signs to the upstairs studio.
*Saturday August 11th and Sunday August 12th 2007
*Doors will open at 10 am and close at 6 p
This a wonderful and rare opportunity to visit with the artist, to purchase unique works of art, and to ask questions about her process. You will also e*xperience being in a beautiful one-of-a-kind historic warehouse on the edge of the railroad tracks.