Doug Dertinger

MISC., featuring the works of artist/photographers Nicole Jean Hill and Doug Dertinger, is the second of Dertinger’s exhibitions gleaning the wealth of leftover materials from the artists’ studios. The show centers on the outliers of production, myriad objects that speak to the way in which process articulates curiosity and manifests meditation.

Axis Gallery is proud to present “New Works,”3 bodies of recent photographic work by California artists Doug Dertinger, Nicole Jean Hill, and David Woody. “New Works” is focused on our relationships with environments.

AXIS Gallery presents HOLD, new photographic works by Sacramento-based artist Doug Dertinger. HOLD brings together works from two photographic projects, Voyage and Traveler, inviting the viewer to consider the liminal nature of the everyday. This liminality, operative as silence and invitation to our attention or ignorance, is often overlooked as the generative source of our actions and attitudes toward the land. As one is held by glance or gaze, so is one operative: “I am always interested in the intimate encounter with the unattended,” writes Dertinger, “of the everyday and the easy-to-overlook, not simply to be witness, but attendant, gardener.” Dertinger’s images invite us to be collaborators in our understanding of the environment, forefronting the relationships that arise as we perceive, affirm, and deny the delicacy of our mutable and often tragic world.