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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.
Alternative Greetings reflects on the ways in which we have become connected and disconnected during the past two years. This show presents the collaborative projects “Alternative Greetings/Alternative Meetings” and “Heavier than Air” alongside new printed works. How can we successfully connect during and after the pandemic? How can we share the weight of our collective grief?
Experimenting in light, structure and negative space, Kenna Doeringer continues to play with color and the influence small pieces can have on each other.
Axis Gallery is proud to present “New Works,”3 bodies of recent photographic work by California artists Doug Dertinger, Nicole Jean Hill, and David Woody. “New Works” is focused on our relationships with environments.
Trompe l’oeil sculptures of water in unlikely forms. The artist explores the universally recognized and common element in the improbable form of a brick or ship or more in this surrealist exhibit. States the artist, “The boat isn’t IN the water. The boat IS the water.”
“See/Saw” highlights work from two recent alumni from the Sac State Photo Program: Amanda Cook and Cameron Getty. Both artists deconstruct and critique the ways we interact with photographic images. Cook’s work explores her relationship to photography, in particular, throughout … Continued
Originally slated to be a show of a select few Icelandic artists, the explosive rise of the Omicron strain rendered the endeavor too strenuous and risky for those involved, and so what was planned as a group showing quickly morphed … Continued
As we try to define what is to become the “new normal,” it is likely that many of us will rationalize our conscious decisions based on two conflicting beliefs and impulses.
In this show seasonal items such as beach chairs, umbrellas, and moving blankets mark our dependence on disposable foreign goods, and yet we justify our purchases as good for the national economy.
The surreal juxtaposition of these incongruous materials brings into question materiality and meaning, association and memory, and allusions where the viewer is transfixed, fraught in a moment of simultaneous attraction and repulsion.