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.
We will reopen on Friday, January 5th from 12PM – 5PM.
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.
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.
About the Show A Reductive State is an exhibition of recent sculpture by Ben Hunt that explores the simplicity of form through seemingly mundane and familiar objects. The works build upon Hunt’s interest in the subtle intricacies of everyday commonplace … Continued
Indígenous is an exploration of memory and ancestral beliefs as presented through a series of 90s era Chicano hieroglyphics.
Axis Gallery is proud to present In Limbo, our 18th National Juried Exhibition featuring juror Emily Zaiden.
Housekeeping is a retrospective….of sorts. At fifty, artist Doug Dertinger is “clearing” his studio of 30 years.
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 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.