Popoxcomitls: Cuentos en Barro (Stories in Clay) – Ray Gonzales and Gabriel Gonzales

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Popoxcomitls- Cuentos en Barro on view at Axis Gallery in February, features the works of father & son artists Ray & Gabriel Gonzales. These artists explore and depict ancestral, pre-Columbian stories and deities using clay as the medium and Popoxcomitls, (Nahuatl ceremonial smudge vessels used to bless and cleanse), as the canvases.

Visual Takeaway – Roma Devanbu

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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.

Parallel Realities

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Puerto Rican born photographer Larry González present the show Parallel Realities as a transition between two bodies of work with similar themes. The first body of work was created in Puerto Rico between 2016 – 2019. The second body of work was completed in Argentina between 2022 – 2023.

無知爲用 (Good of Nothing) – Muzi Li Rowe

Rowe is creating a series of Chinese knots, an ancient form of folk art that is typically made with fabric cords and is displayed as festive decoration. Using defunct cables such as ethernet cables, phone charging cables and wired headphones, she is transforming these discarded materials into hand knotted forms with the technique of a traditional Chinese craft.

Thresholds – Raquel Mullins | Victoria Sauer | Joanne Tepper Saffren | Carrie Ziser | Rachael Zur

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.