For a Day Without a Sky envisions a moment when humankind has not only lost touch with nature, but where nature has been lost. Exploring and exploiting the symbolism of advertising, plexiglass becomes an ersatz replacement for stained glass windows … Continued
Cementation/Dissolution is a solo exhibition of landscape paintings by Mirabel Wigon. These paintings are inspired by her immediate surroundings and explore experience, immersion, and separation within the built and natural environment. The paintings acknowledge infrastructure instability and ecological degradation as dire existential threats, emphasizing the flawed modernist narrative of progress and innovation.
San Francisco art supply store Case for Making comes to Axis to present a snapshot of its current community of teachers, makers and staff. Quilts of watercolor paintings, with individual pieces made by over 60 artists, have been lovingly assembled by CFM staff, coordinated by founder Alexis Joseph, and curated by artist Eliza Gregory. The exhibition showcases these pieces, as well as the ideas and values manifested by this unusual institution-as-artwork.
During the pandemic I explored many new things. I learned how to make bread from scratch, started taking Martial Arts lessons and had daily existential breakdowns. The forces at play also influenced my way of making art and I began … Continued
New work by new(ish) Axis Gallery members.
In her debut solo show at Axis Gallery, Danielle Wogulis presents a collection of paintings and collages made since the beginning of COVID-19.
Axis Gallery presents pictures of danny, a solo exhibition by new Axis member Erin Kaczkowski. The work in this exhibition explores the intersecting realities of family life and life in a culture dominated by our relationships to personal technological devices.
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In [Placeholder]: florilegia Eliza Gregory brings together artworks and research that comment upon the nature of our social and individual relationships to land. Artists Doug Dertinger, Leigh Merrill, Travis Neel & Erin Charpentier, and Vicky Chaebin Yoon show work alongside texts, experiments and questions.
Curator’s Statement: Seeing in Real/Time Facebook’s rebranding as Meta in Fall 2021 serves as an apt analogy for our times, bringing to the forefront conversations about what constitutes authentic experience and interaction. With close to 5 billion social media … Continued
Work in this exhibit is comprised of rich painting and textile-based work, sound
sculptures and installations, drawing and three-dimensional installations. The artists in this exhibit all carry a material handling into the studio and this surmises the strength and power of their creations: that they be made of the hand.