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 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 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
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.
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.
October 29, 2023: Artist Talk at 1pm, Workshop 2-5pm astronaut.horse is a series of open-ended collaborations between visual artists / students and a group of professional software engineers and machine learning researchers who began working with Stable Diffusion together … Continued
Axis Gallery is proud to present Eavesdropping, a sound installation presented by Kenna Doeringer.
Housekeeping is a retrospective….of sorts. At fifty, artist Doug Dertinger is “clearing” his studio of 30 years.
The works in this exhibition are a meditation on cycles of flooding and drought, surfeit and lack. Each extreme is disastrous in its own way. The ways in which our actions have endangered the landscape now endanger us. These climatic shifts can also stand in for other vacillations; in politics, institutions, and ourselves. When the world seems upside-down, how do we contend with the weather we make?
THRESHOLDS explores the idea of “home” as a fluid, varied, and blurred concept. Sifting through items inherited or foraged from the domestic sphere draws attention to issues of labor, equity, gender, domestic tensions, and also how people care for those closest to them and pay loving homage to those no longer present. Artists Raquel Mullins, Victoria Sauer, Joanne Tepper Saffren, Carrie Ziser, and Rachael Zur work in varied scale and artistic media, but notions of home are the point in which they connect.