Axis Gallery 
Sacramento, California
1517 19th Street, Sacramento, CA 95811
info@axisgallery.org 916.443.9900
Hours: Saturday & Sunday 12pm to 5pm or by appointment
Towers
Richard Gilles
May 5 - May 27, 2012
Thursday Night Exhibition Preview Reception: May 10, 6pm-8pm
Second Saturday Receptions:
May 12, 2012, 6pm-9pm
Axis Gallery is pleased to present, Towers, an exhibition of new large format color photographs by Richard Gilles. With this new series, Gilles continues his exploration of the panoramic format, this time using vertical elements in a landscape environment. By matching these structures in pairs he presents them as "sentries" standing watch over the landscape below.
Gilles's previous panoramic series, Signs of the Times, which explored what empty billboards say to us or about us, exhibited at the D.N.J. Gallery in Los Angeles in 2010, and at B. Sakata Garo in Sacramento in 2009. His previous solo exhibitions at Axis Gallery include, Had Enough in 2011, Strange Attractors in 2009, The Highway Remembers in 2008, and Almost Home-Less in 2007.
7th National Juried Exhibition
Juror: Apsara DiQuinzio
Assistant curator of
painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Bridge Support Towers, 2010
inkjet print, 21" x 48"
06. 2009
Anywhere but Here
Patricia Wood
History
Axis Gallery is an artist-run space. This cooperative has been together for over 15 years building a reputation for exhibiting challenging contemporary artwork. The artist members are equal partners and support the gallery through sales of artwork, contribution of labor and monthly dues, thus avoiding the usual constraints of a commercial gallery.
We are dedicated to the highest standards of excellence in our selection and presentation of works of art.
Past Exhibitions
05. 2009
Wonder, Wander
Janice Nakashima
04. 2009
In Search of Chia Seeds
Ray Gonzales & Ron Peetz
02. 2009
Works by Steven J. Miller
01. 2009
Annual Members Exhibition
12. 2008
Sacramento Cross Section
Joy Bertinuson, Ianna Frisby, Gioia Fonda, Liv Moe and David Lane
11. 2008
InForm
Marilyn Heilman, Joni Tanis & Karen Bearson
10. 2008
Fragments: Paintings and Linocuts
Dixie Laws
09. 2008
Curves, Math and Sound
A Collaboration Between Jiayi Young and Shih-Wen Young
08. 2008
Axis Gallery 3rd Annual Juried Competition Exhibition
juror: Phil Linhares, Chief Curator of the Oakland Museum of Art
07. 2008
Monument
A Collaborative Project by Geoff Tuttle & Eddie Stein
06. 2008
The White Creature
New Work by Tom Brockman
05. 2008
The Highway Remembers
New Photograps by Richard Gilles
04. 2008
Movin Feet, Shadows and Snow
Recent Paintings by Birgitta Franzen McCarthy
03. 2008
Recent Paintings
Phil Amrhein
02. 2008
A Spy in the House of Love
Patricia Wood & Pamela Bryan
01. 2008
Off Center
Axis Gallery Members Show
08. 2009
4th National Juried Exhibition
Juror, Janet Bishop, SFMOMA
09. 2009
New Works: Paintings and Collage
Birgitta Franzen McCarthy
& Lisa Lane
01. 2010
"Axis Tilt"
2010 Members Show
03. 2010
"Axis 2010 Invitational"
Pamela Blotner
Kurt Dyrhaug
Stephen Eakin
07. 2010
“Bending the Rules”
Cherilyn Naughton
5th National Juried Exhibition
Juror: Joe Amrhein
artist and director of Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
11. 2010
“Forest”
Janice Nakashima
12. 2010
“Verge at Axis”
Youngsuk Suh, Gioia Fonda, Jeff Musser, Patrick Marasso, Andrew Patterson-Tutschka, Liv Moe and many more
Members
01. 2011
“Wrinkle”
Cherie Hacker, Cherilyn Naughton, Joy Bertinuson, Karen Bearson, Phil Amrhein, Ron Peetz, Janice Nakashima, Richard Gilles, Sandra Beard, Dixie Laws, Jiayi Young, Birgitta Franzen McCarthy and new member Shirley Hazlett.
02. 2011
“Lamp & Endtable Project”
Cherie Hacker
03. 2011
“Had Enough? (and other questions of pride)
Photographs from the 90s”
Richard Gilles
04. 2011
“Cybernetic”
GENE OLDFIELD AND FRIENDS
05. 2011
“Shape Shifting and Forms in Motion”
Birgitta Franzen McCarthy
06. 2011
“At the Edge of the World”
a multi-channel video installation by Ruth Eckland
music by Matt DiFonzo
09. 2011
"Reflection Spot"
Photographs by Karen Bearson
10. 2011
"Ron Peetz and Ron Paulat"
11. 2011
"REM Blue
unique prints from the flat files and other works on paper"
by Sandra Beard
12. 2011 - 01. 2012
"The Big Show"
Annual Members Show
"The Bearded Baby"
Guest Curator Ichiro Irie
Featuring works by Rochelle Botello, Aska Irie, Jay Stuckey & Megan Whitmarsh
03. 2012
"Stretch"
New Work by Joni Tanis and Karen Bearson
04. 2012
"Inside/Outside"
by Dixie Laws