by Roma Devanbu
Join us at Axis Gallery for Second Saturday, a monthly celebration of the newest gallery exhibition. Guests can enjoy light refreshments, lively conversation, and meet the month’s featured artists.
POSSESSED at Downtown Sacramento’s Axis Gallery
By Jadzia Pho Roma Devanbu speaks on her solo exhibition and the human fascination with collection and creation Axis Gallery is an artist-run space located at 625 S Street in Sacramento housed in the Verge Center for the Arts Building. … Continued
POSSESSED, New Work by Roma Devanbu
Join us at Axis Gallery for Second Saturday, a monthly celebration of the newest gallery exhibition. Guests can enjoy light refreshments, lively conversation, and meet the month’s featured artists.
Cornucopia
posted in: Adero Willard, Benjamin Hunt, Bill Mead, Danielle Wogulis, Doug Dertinger, East Room show, Eliza Gregory, Erin Kaczkowski, Frank J. Stockton, Heather Hogan, Joanne Tepper Saffren, Justin Nunnally, Kenna Doeringer, Kerry Cottle, Main Gallery show, Manuel Fernando Rios, members, Mirabel Wigon, Nick Shepard, Omar Arason, Peter Foucault, Ray Gonzales, Roma Devanbu, Shows, Steve Briscoe, Summer Ventis |
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“Cornucopia” is an open-themed, all-members exhibition designed to bring together our gallery community in a relaxed and convivial atmosphere. The show invites us to share a single work with one another in a casual and collaborative setting.
View from the Hill
posted in: Joanne Tepper Saffren, Main Gallery show, Roma Devanbu, Shows, Steve Briscoe, Susan Silvester |
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Axis Gallery invites you to “View from the Hill,” an exhibition featuring the distinct perspectives of seven artists in the later stages of their creative journeys. This show highlights the growth that often unfolds with experience, offering a space for emerging artists to reflect on the evolving nature of artistic expression.
Visual Takeaway – Roma Devanbu
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.
For Me? The Questions of Self Care – Recent works by Roma Devanbu, with guest artists Josephine Devanbu and Frankie Devanbu
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.
Roma Devanbu – Stone Doily, New Cut Paper Work
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.
Paper Medium – Roma Devanbu
The meaningful and complex relationships that people have with the objects which fill their homes has been a recurring theme in Roma Devanbu’s work for many years. Months of following strict shelter-at-home protocols have further focused Devanbu’s attention on the domestic devices that serve as mediums of vital connection to the people, places and things beyond the constraints of our physical locations. This new body of work includes numerous cut paper interpretations of the tech-magic video meetings that have come to dominate our days. Other works depict objects such as heirlooms or meteorites which have their own power to link us to realms beyond.
Roma Devanbu – Keep, Toss, Give Away, Sell
Roma Devanbu’s use of intricate pattern reflects her ongoing fascination with the human compulsion to make things and decorate them. In this, her third, solo show at Axis Gallery, Devanbu contrasts these patterned elements, with representational passages, such as hands that hold on or let go of the objects, relationships and ideas of our making.
A chronic, but mostly manageable, hoarding disorder gives Devanbu a measure of personal expertise when it comes to understanding our attachments to things and to the meanings these objects hold. Devanbu explores these ideas in new drawings and paintings, as well as in interactive work which invite gallery goers to engage with the perpetual hoarder’s dilemma – Keep, Toss, Give Away or Sell?