Red Moon, 2014
Alabaster, 25" x 9" x 11"
Monster, 2015
oil on canvas
In Tabulation, 2015
Mixed media collage, 8" x 8"
Axis Gallery is pleased to announce our 2015 Invitational Exhibition with artists Heather Engen, Jennifer Lugris and Deborah Salomon during the month of December. These three artists were juried into our 2015 National Juried Exhibition at Axis gallery and have been invited back to showcase more of their work.
Heather Engen currently lives and works between Big Sur and Oakland, CA. She received her MFA degree from Mills College in 2014 where she also was awarded a yearlong Fellowship at the Headlands Center for the Arts, concluded in July 2015. In 2011, Heather received her Bachelors of Fine Arts with honors from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has been showing work in the SF Bay Area over the past 6 years. Heather utilizes a range of sculptural materials and processes, examining time as it exists in materiality and the potential perceptual and sensorial affects of altered materials in either physical space or as an object.
Jennifer Lugris (b. 1986, North Bergen, NJ) is a Korean, Uruguayan, American, and Spanish oil painter. She studied painting and photography at Rutgers University while pursuing a bachelor’s degree in sociology. Her career as an artist began in October, 2012, when she took a painting class at a small art school in Alhambra, CA. Lugris’s artwork explores human rights violations permitted under political institutions. In her series Forgiven, she offers an unconventional view of the death penalty by juxtaposing the image of an innocent child with the last words of a death row inmate.
Deborah Salomon works in a studio in Santa Rosa, California creating art consisting of paint, printmaking, and mixed media collages. Her collages combine printed materials of text, found papers, and paint arranged intuitively, to create geometric, abstract constructions. Salomon’s work has been included in many juried and invitational shows throughout California and the US. Salomon has participated in two artist’s residencies including the Vermont Studio Center (awarded the Dedalus Full Scholarship award) and the Millay Colony for the Arts.