Cementation/Dissolution – Mirabel Wigon

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.

Many Hands and the Marks We Make: Case for Making Collaborative Quilts

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.

Material Handling – John Criscitello, Anne Garvey, Esther Marie Hall, Laura Sanford, and Josh Short. Curated by Tavarus Blackmon

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.