“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.
What does a house symbolize and what symbolizes a house.
When asked to draw a house a child will most often draw a rectangle with an isosceles triangle on top. After adding a door and a window or two you have the standard drawing of a house. This rudimentary shape has become a universal symbol of a house. With computers this symbol has become simplified even more to become an icon. The “home” icon is used to return the user to the start, to back the user out of complexity and return the user to a place of relative safety.
Most of us remember using scissors to cut snowflakes from folded paper. Roma Devanbu’s cut paper work has its roots in the traditions of the homemade. The larger works in Devanbu’s current show, “Stone Doily”, take direct inspiration from her own great-grandmother’s quilts, painted china and tatted doilies. The exhibition also includes a number of smaller pieces depicting domestic furnishings and imaginary friends.
Axis Gallery is pleased to feature Faith J McKinnie, independent curator based in Sacramento, as juror for our 16th National Juried Exhibition.
Today is a place of uncertainty but there is hope, struggle and resistance. In the face of challenges large and small, institutional and interpersonal, it is with will and courage we find ways to live our best lives and uplift others on this shared journey with empathy and compassion.
Indices of Being asks the question: in a time of patriarchal injustice, in a time of global warming and debate on climate change; native battles for water and land, atrocities in immigration policy; in a time of voter suppression, #Me Too, Black Lives Matter, Queer suppression and anti-Trans legislation, and, with gender biases in some of our finest Museums and gathering spaces of culture and intellect, what does it mean to be, in this most critical and vital moment from a woman’s perspective?
Axis Gallery presents “Operating Under the Influence”, an exhibition of sculpture and photographic works by Benjamin Hunt.
Axis Gallery is excited to showcase the works of artist and curator, Daniel Alejandro Trejo, in a solo exhibition titled “Gravity Don’t Pull Me” in the East Gallery Space for the month of May.
This exhibition is an examination of personal narratives and experiences when environments become unreachable, alter through time, and a reconciliation for the discrepancies are exigent. It is inevitable to be propelled by personal motives for creating work from a bedrock of references and niche experiences. By emulating spaces from a future-oriented disposition that parallel registered sensations, Daniel Alejandro Trejo attempts to achieve familiar relationships while being spatially out of reach.
Axis Gallery presents new work from Sacramento artist, Doug Dertinger, March 2020-March 2021. Made during early morning and evening walks, Dertinger’s work is an exploration of the quiet energies and pervading solitude of the last year. The work is on display in Axis East Gallery, April 3rd through April 25th, 2021.