Eavesdropping – Kenna Doeringer
Axis Gallery is proud to present Eavesdropping, a sound installation presented by Kenna Doeringer.
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.
About the Show “Mercado” translates into market. In many countries the mercado is where artists and artisans present and sell their works on the street and on plazas in an informal setting. This small group exhibit’s focus is to display … Continued
Cementation/Dissolution is a solo exhibition of landscape paintings by Mirabel Wigon. These paintings are inspired by her immediate surroundings and explore experience, immersion, and separation within the built and natural environment. The paintings acknowledge infrastructure instability and ecological degradation as dire existential threats, emphasizing the flawed modernist narrative of progress and innovation.
The works in this show reflect a long and persistent personal desire to understand Self Care, including the ways in which the creative process can be an act of Self Care.
For his fourth main gallery exhibit with Axis Gallery, Sacramento artist Nick Shepard presents “Content-Aware,” a group of new photographic compositions that celebrate the act of looking carefully.
During the pandemic I explored many new things. I learned how to make bread from scratch, started taking Martial Arts lessons and had daily existential breakdowns. The forces at play also influenced my way of making art and I began … Continued
New work by new(ish) Axis Gallery members.