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19 Nov 2020

Strategies for Coping

Eliza Gregory, Muzi Li Rowe, Vincent Pacheco, Joanne Tepper Saffren and Dan Tran

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This show is about strategies for coping with dueling apocalypses. Laughter, tenderness, finding the ground so you can put your feet on it. We are looking for ways forward, for political agency. We are imagining new ways of being, collectively and individually. How do we find each other again? How do we listen, how do we love? How do we serve each other? How do we reconnect to our places, our environment, our neighbors and ourselves? We invite you to be with us. It’s wonderful being with you.

Five new Axis members—Eliza Gregory, Muzi Li Rowe, Vincent Pacheco, Joanne Tepper Saffren and Dan Tran—come together to show their work as Strategies for Coping, an exhibition dedicated to building connection across isolation in this particular time and place. Each artist presents work that speaks to a particular strategy for dealing with the panoply of ills that have reared up these last few months: anxiety, isolation, personal trauma, grief, social upheaval, sickness, wildfire…the list goes on. Using a mixture of photography, sculpture and paintings the five artists present works that resonate with humor and pathos, opening a conversation for everyone to acknowledge and share their strategies for coping.

4 Nov 2020

Daniel Tran

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Raised in a refugee family and trained as an architect and organic farmer, my life continues to revolve around adaptation amidst ever changing environments. The same can be said for my art and design work. In architecture, the term ‘adaptive … Continued

20 Oct 2020

Muzi Li Rowe

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The intersection of perception, technology and consumerism is the predominant theme of my work. I make cameras and photographs, and I search for optical instruments, antiquated technology as well as electronic waste as both my subject matter and material. Through … Continued

15 Aug 2020

Flor Mort, dead flower – Tavarus Blackmon, Halcyon Clay and Patti Kilroy
Curator:Tavarus Blackmon

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This exhibit brings together three artists who have connected online during the COVID-19 Pandemic. This installation is comprised of work from Halcyon, Patti Kilroy and Axis Gallery member, Tavarus Blackmon.
Through expressive works on canvas, conceptual painting in the expanded field and sound art work, this experience is influenced by Art History and the use of the floral, still life or dry flowers, in art. From what was a formal exercise in representation emerges a contemporary exhibition of active picture planes, playful, non-paintings and expressive sound. What does such an image mean in our culture today, gripped by a deadly virus and demands for social justice? Flor Mort, is concerned with presence, immediacy and the act of play. And, how we may be better to observe the stillness we can inhabit through a practice and the lived experience.

15 Aug 2020

Aida Lizalde – Vessel / Fountain

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Axis Gallery presents Vessel / Fountain, a solo exhibition with recent works by Aida Lizalde composed of paper pulp works and mixed media sculptures dealing with power structures and exploring the idea of cultural identity and neo-colonialism through narrative and symbolism. The works included are illustrating the ambiance of her bi-national experience and fragmented identity caused by the racial and political conflicts of the United States, the nostalgia and separation of her childhood in Mexico, and the manifestation of a post-structural existence in her personal life.

12 Aug 2020

William Mead with Jake Lewis

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12 Aug 2020

The Weight – Manuel Fernando Rios

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Everyone carries unique worries, insecurities and burdens on a daily basis. Whether those feelings are self-inflicted or caused by external sources, people bear loads of emotions that are more often than not bottled up. Manuel Fernando Rios’ exhibition at Axis Gallery titled “The Weight” aims to visually explore the feeling of carrying mental baggage. Through mixed media paintings that often include silkscreen and image transfers, Rios weaves intricate compositions full of colorful abstracted and figurative forms capturing the complicated feelings of emotional weight.

1 Mar 2020

Murray Bowles: Sixteen Frames
Curators: Luke Turner and Justin Marsh

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Axis gallery is pleased to present Murray Bowles’ Sixteen Frames, a selection of his photographic works that depict the energy filled spaces of this region’s underground music subculture. Renowned throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, Bowles is held in especially high regard by punk cognoscenti for his devoted photography actions and his generous distribution of prints. Bowles participated in thousands of gatherings, from the center of the floor, with his camera and flash held high, recording the people and interiors from the early 1980’s until his death in 2019. As his anarchic subjects move with abandon inside derelict buildings, their bodies and limbs flail beyond the confines of the camera viewfinder. The resulting images subvert common notions of pictorial order. Bowles’ compositions are immediate and dynamic, their formal qualities produced primarily by the photographer’s proximity to the chaos and his use of dedicated flash lighting.

22 Dec 2019

Portrait – Beth Consetta Rubel and Nafis M. White
Curator: Beth Consetta Rubel

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Portrait: a pictorial representation of a person usually showing the face.

Wayne Shorter’s seminal work titled Portrait is the impetus and inspiration behind both the exhibition title and the bodies of work that unite the practice of artists Beth Consetta Rubel and Nafis M. White. Just as Shorter conflates simple and compound meter in jazz by bridging African, swing and cross rhythms to create new pathways of intellectual discourse, Rubel and White take a similar approach uniting themes of accumulation, belonging, abstraction and portraiture towards the synthesis of ideas around identity and power. Using color theory as a through line while moving beyond simple definitions prescribing guidelines for use of color, White and Rubel instead utilize chroma as a way to increase power, resonance, and urgency through abstract narratives. Like Shorter, the melodies shift frequently within the work lending itself to lead new lives often in simultaneity.

14 Dec 2019

Beth Consetta Rubel

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Artist Website My process combines hand drawn and painted details, multi-media, found objects, occasional movement and film elements. In practice, I take on social commentary, identity politics, empowerment, race and pop culture. Influenced by my upbringing in the South, as … Continued