Popoxcomitls: Cuentos en Barro (Stories in Clay) – Ray Gonzales and Gabriel Gonzales
28 Jan 2024

Popoxcomitls: Cuentos en Barro (Stories in Clay) – Ray Gonzales and Gabriel Gonzales

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Popoxcomitls- Cuentos en Barro on view at Axis Gallery in February, features the works of father & son artists Ray & Gabriel Gonzales. These artists explore and depict ancestral, pre-Columbian stories and deities using clay as the medium and Popoxcomitls, (Nahuatl ceremonial smudge vessels used to bless and cleanse), as the canvases.

Steve Briscoe
26 Jan 2024

Steve Briscoe

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Steve Briscoe grew up in Stockton, California and attended Santa Clara University and the San Francisco Art Institute where he received his MFA. He has been an artist in residence at Public Glass in San Francisco, Paulson Fontaine Press in … Continued

Kerry Cottle
22 Jan 2024

Kerry Cottle

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Kerry Cottle is a visual artist and educator based in Sacramento, California. Her work is an ongoing meditation on material, abstraction, and color aimed at symbolically reconsidering, restoring, and/or subverting flawed value systems. Led by the somatic and intuitive processes … Continued

Heather Hogan
22 Jan 2024

Heather Hogan

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Heather Hogan is a Sacramento-based artist, professor, and designer who layers modern and traditional media into colorfully detailed compositions. Her joyful and layered artworks often collage analog materials with digitally-designed elements and community-sourced upcycled or unconventional materials. Public participation and … Continued

Adero Willard
20 Jan 2024

Adero Willard

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Adero was born in New York City. She completed her BFA in Fine Arts at NY State College of Ceramics at Alfred and received an MFA from Nova Scotia College Of Art and Design in Halifax, NS, Canada. A unifying … Continued

Social Sculptures – Peter Foucault
3 Dec 2023

Social Sculptures – Peter Foucault

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For over a decade Peter Foucault has been creating community based, social practice projects that utilize mobile structures created by the artist to directly engage audiences in public spaces. Participants are invited to share their voice and ideas around issues that impact their lives and neighborhoods. A selection of these “Social Sculptures” will be on view at Axis Gallery in January 2024 and a month-long participatory project will be set up in the gallery inviting visitors to contribute. In addition the exhibition will feature documentation of previous mobile projects and collaborations.

Visual Takeaway – Roma Devanbu
24 Nov 2023

Visual Takeaway – Roma Devanbu

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In 2023, artist Roma Devanbu spent eight months in and around Germany simply seeing and responding with the fresh eye that being a stranger in a new/old world provides. The images that resulted are served up on Pappteller zum Mitnehman – the paper plates “To Take” used by both street vendors and bakeries in many parts of Europe. Their distinctive rectangular shapes and fluted corners of the plates function as frames for Devanbus visual takeaway.