Bio:

Charlie Milgrim is a multimedia artist from New York City. She moved to the Bay Area to attend the California College of the Arts and later received her MFA from the University of California, Berkeley. Since then, she has had solo shows in New York City at OK Harris Gallery, San Francisco at Haines Gallery and Gallery 16, the Richmond Art Center, and the Oakland Museum. For the past 15 years, Milgrim has been a member of Mercury 20 Gallery and an active participant in the Bay Area arts community through exhibition and curation.

In depth interview with Kathleen King on my work: https://mercurytwenty.com/interview-with-mercury-twenty-artist-charlie-milgrim/

Statement:

Through my work, I hope that people will discover new ways to look at our complex and challenging world. My New York City roots combined with the Bay Area’s counter-cultural ethos, political and environmental activism, and passion for nature inform the themes and style of my work. My sculptural installations incorporate a diverse range of industrial, found, and barely identifiable materials, from wire tomato cages to bowling balls to roofing tar paper. Through my sense of play and irony, I seek out beauty in chance and the mundane.

“Milgrim is one of those artists who lives in a kind of Platonic, parallel universe of pure ideas and immaculate, artistic execution. I don’t need to write about her work: the feelings, the implications, the messages, it is all there and it is great.”

- Obi Kaufmann, Art Writer