Joanne Tepper Saffren Artist, Designer, Curator Joanne Tepper Saffren is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the layered terrain of memory, home, and resilience. Originally from Los Angeles and now based in Sacramento, her practice is deeply informed by personal … Continued
The last year and a half has been one long held breath; a time of caution, of waiting, of restraint, of restriction and withdrawal. It has brought new hardships and magnified existing ones, but it has also forced us to find new ways to connect. The works in this exhibition are a meditation on the times in which we find ourselves. They are a way of externalizing and processing the tension and fear with which we live, and also a celebration of new forms of connection and communication that have emerged as a result of our separation from each other. I offer my held breath to you; I offer to hold your breath for a moment so that you might find a better way to breathe.
Most of us remember using scissors to cut snowflakes from folded paper. Roma Devanbu’s cut paper work has its roots in the traditions of the homemade. The larger works in Devanbu’s current show, “Stone Doily”, take direct inspiration from her own great-grandmother’s quilts, painted china and tatted doilies. The exhibition also includes a number of smaller pieces depicting domestic furnishings and imaginary friends.
At first we fear change but once we learn to accept it, we can welcome and embrace it. Sometimes an evolution needs to be forced, causing a crack to form in the facade we create to protect ourselves, and see the light to start to break through. The light promoted the growth, it fed it, nurtured it, and cultivated it allowing expansion and continued development never imagined possible. “Anthem” is a visual representation of breaking through the illusion, allowing oneself to grow freely, and sharing the light with others. Anthropomorphizing these emotions as a freely formed amorphous structure it allowed for the cracks and imperfections to be embraced and enhanced. The light increases as the composition grows, and verges on dominating the entire canvas.
More info Second Saturday Reception June 12, 6pm Closing Reception June 26, 5:30–8pm View Gallery checklist Installation views Read Press Release Virtual Artist Talk Replay Dates June 4–27, 2021
More info Second Saturday Reception June 12, 6pm Closing Reception June 26, 5:30–8pm View Gallery checklist Installation views Read Press Release Virtual Artist Talk Replay Dates June 4–27, 2021
Nick Shepard As Built June 4–27 Artist Talk, June 11, 7pm Second Saturday Reception June 12, 6pm Axis Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Nick Shepard on view from June 4–June 27, 2021. Shepard … Continued
Axis Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Nick Shepard on view from June 4–June 27, 2021. Shepard will present an artist talk Friday, June 11. This is Shepard’s third solo exhibition in Axis’s main gallery.
For this exhibition, titled “As Built”, Shepard displays photographs of temporary studio constructions that are cobbled together from scraps and zip ties, held in place with little more than some screws and gravity. As in his past shows at Axis, Shepard uses unfinished structures as physical interventions in the gallery and surfaces on which to display the printed images. For the first time, Shepard displays constructions in the gallery as sculptures.
Axis Gallery is proud to present Sundering the Unconscious: An Indigenous View of the Transformation of Western Values; a two-person exhibition by artists Stan Padilla and Ray Gonzales. The years 2016-2020 were part of an intensifying, tumultuous, transformational period in human society. All of this was predicted in the ancient Mexican indigenous prophecies. The artist’s work presented here is a “living expression, current view” of this unfolding evolutionary process. A multi-media exhibition that addresses life consciousness, death, unconsciousness, transformation and a mystical basis for a new world order. This will be an art gallery transformed into a temple space and the artists into storytellers. Don’t miss this emergence into Spring 2021
Axis Gallery presents new work from Sacramento artist, Doug Dertinger, March 2020-March 2021. Made during early morning and evening walks, Dertinger’s work is an exploration of the quiet energies and pervading solitude of the last year. The work is on display in Axis East Gallery, April 3rd through April 25th, 2021.