Axis Gallery is proud to present its 21st annual National Juried Exhibition, a showcase of contemporary art selected from a diverse national pool of submissions.
Together, the works in the 21st National Juried Exhibition form a richly layered snapshot of contemporary art making, unified by a commitment to critical reflection and material curiosity.
Axis Gallery presents its 21st National Juried Exhibition, featuring juror Sharon Butler of Two Coats of Paint.
About the Juror
Sharon Butler is a painter and the founder of Two Coats of Paint, an award-winning NYC blogazine about painting. She has held solo exhibitions in at CLEA RSKY, Jennifer Baahng Gallery, Theodore Gallery, Pocket Utopia, and Central Fine Arts (all in NYC); in Connecticut at Slater Memorial Museum, Real Art Ways, and Furnace Art on Paper Archive; and in the university galleries at University of Alabama, University of Connecticut, and SUNY Westchester. Her paintings are characterized by a tendency toward Casualism, a term she coined in an article published in The Brooklyn Rail to describe an approach to painting that values imperfection, incompleteness, and process over traditional color theory, pleasing composition, and polished forms.
Her work has been featured in publications such as The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, artcritical, The New Criterion, and New York Magazine. She has received awards from Creative Capital and the Warhol Foundation, Yaddo, Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
She lives and works in Long Island City, Queens.
About the Space
Axis Gallery is an artist-run space in downtown Sacramento that has been in operation for well over 30 years, with a national reputation for presenting contemporary and challenging exhibitions in Sacramento. We are dedicated to the highest standards of excellence in the selection and presentation of works of art.
Exhibition dates:
August 7–30, 2026
Second Saturday reception evening of August 8
Questions
Email us: juried@axisgallery.org