Main Gallery show – Page 7

7 Apr 2021

Nick Shepard – As Built

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Axis Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Nick Shepard on view from June 4–June 27, 2021. Shepard will present an artist talk Friday, June 11. This is Shepard’s third solo exhibition in Axis’s main gallery.

For this exhibition, titled “As Built”, Shepard displays photographs of temporary studio constructions that are cobbled together from scraps and zip ties, held in place with little more than some screws and gravity. As in his past shows at Axis, Shepard uses unfinished structures as physical interventions in the gallery and surfaces on which to display the printed images. For the first time, Shepard displays constructions in the gallery as sculptures.

7 Apr 2021

Omar Thor Arason – Quantum Collapse

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Axis Gallery is excited to present new paintings from Sacramento artist, Omar Thor Arason. His current body of work explores the hypothetical overlap between theoretical physics, psychology, religion and mythology. Taking an enthusiast’s approach to complex subjects rather than a comprehensive understanding offers exciting implications that are closed to those who possess a deep understanding of the subjects i.e. in many ways the more knowledge is acquired, the more one becomes aware of the limitations and boundaries. The work imagines a reality where these varied fields collide, interweave, and exert their influence on each other, with embedded figures serving as the ever present conscious observer.

10 Feb 2021

Sundering the Unconscious: An Indigenous View of the Transformation of Western Values
Stan Padilla and Ray Gonzales

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Axis Gallery is proud to present Sundering the Unconscious: An Indigenous View of the Transformation of Western Values; a two-person exhibition by artists Stan Padilla and Ray Gonzales. The years 2016-2020 were part of an intensifying, tumultuous, transformational period in human society. All of this was predicted in the ancient Mexican indigenous prophecies. The artist’s work presented here is a “living expression, current view” of this unfolding evolutionary process. A multi-media exhibition that addresses life consciousness, death, unconsciousness, transformation and a mystical basis for a new world order. This will be an art gallery transformed into a temple space and the artists into storytellers. Don’t miss this emergence into Spring 2021

7 Dec 2020

Ben Hunt
The Ceiling, Floor and a Television Sky

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Axis Gallery is pleased to present “The Ceiling, Floor and a Television Sky”, an exhibition of sculpture and photographic works by Ben Hunt. This recent body of work, inspired by Surrealism, Hunt explores imagery taken of skyscapes, landscapes and found objects through the use of synthetic materials such as resin, acrylic and aluminum. The exhibition is on view in Axis’ Main gallery throughout the month of February.

Ben Hunt is a visual artist and “fabricator”. Born and raised in San Diego, CA, He received his Master of Fine Arts degree, in Spatial Art, from San José State University in 2008. He has exhibited both regionally and nationally and has taught sculpture at both Idaho State University and California State University, Sacramento. Currently, Ben works at California State University Sacramento as instructional and technical staff in the Art Department. He is an active member of Axis gallery in Sacramento where He lives and maintains an art studio practice.

7 Dec 2020

Paper Medium – Roma Devanbu

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The meaningful and complex relationships that people have with the objects which fill their homes has been a recurring theme in Roma Devanbu’s work for many years. Months of following strict shelter-at-home protocols have further focused Devanbu’s attention on the domestic devices that serve as mediums of vital connection to the people, places and things beyond the constraints of our physical locations. This new body of work includes numerous cut paper interpretations of the tech-magic video meetings that have come to dominate our days. Other works depict objects such as heirlooms or meteorites which have their own power to link us to realms beyond.

19 Nov 2020

Strategies for Coping

Eliza Gregory, Muzi Li Rowe, Vincent Pacheco, Joanne Tepper Saffren and Dan Tran

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This show is about strategies for coping with dueling apocalypses. Laughter, tenderness, finding the ground so you can put your feet on it. We are looking for ways forward, for political agency. We are imagining new ways of being, collectively and individually. How do we find each other again? How do we listen, how do we love? How do we serve each other? How do we reconnect to our places, our environment, our neighbors and ourselves? We invite you to be with us. It’s wonderful being with you.

Five new Axis members—Eliza Gregory, Muzi Li Rowe, Vincent Pacheco, Joanne Tepper Saffren and Dan Tran—come together to show their work as Strategies for Coping, an exhibition dedicated to building connection across isolation in this particular time and place. Each artist presents work that speaks to a particular strategy for dealing with the panoply of ills that have reared up these last few months: anxiety, isolation, personal trauma, grief, social upheaval, sickness, wildfire…the list goes on. Using a mixture of photography, sculpture and paintings the five artists present works that resonate with humor and pathos, opening a conversation for everyone to acknowledge and share their strategies for coping.

15 Aug 2020

Doug Dertinger – HOLD

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AXIS Gallery presents HOLD, new photographic works by Sacramento-based artist Doug Dertinger. HOLD brings together works from two photographic projects, Voyage and Traveler, inviting the viewer to consider the liminal nature of the everyday. This liminality, operative as silence and invitation to our attention or ignorance, is often overlooked as the generative source of our actions and attitudes toward the land. As one is held by glance or gaze, so is one operative: “I am always interested in the intimate encounter with the unattended,” writes Dertinger, “of the everyday and the easy-to-overlook, not simply to be witness, but attendant, gardener.” Dertinger’s images invite us to be collaborators in our understanding of the environment, forefronting the relationships that arise as we perceive, affirm, and deny the delicacy of our mutable and often tragic world.

15 Aug 2020

Aida Lizalde – Vessel / Fountain

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Axis Gallery presents Vessel / Fountain, a solo exhibition with recent works by Aida Lizalde composed of paper pulp works and mixed media sculptures dealing with power structures and exploring the idea of cultural identity and neo-colonialism through narrative and symbolism. The works included are illustrating the ambiance of her bi-national experience and fragmented identity caused by the racial and political conflicts of the United States, the nostalgia and separation of her childhood in Mexico, and the manifestation of a post-structural existence in her personal life.

12 Aug 2020

The Weight – Manuel Fernando Rios

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Everyone carries unique worries, insecurities and burdens on a daily basis. Whether those feelings are self-inflicted or caused by external sources, people bear loads of emotions that are more often than not bottled up. Manuel Fernando Rios’ exhibition at Axis Gallery titled “The Weight” aims to visually explore the feeling of carrying mental baggage. Through mixed media paintings that often include silkscreen and image transfers, Rios weaves intricate compositions full of colorful abstracted and figurative forms capturing the complicated feelings of emotional weight.

1 Aug 2020

Axis 15th National Juried Exhibition
Juror: Marcela Pardo Ariza

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There is nostalgia for touch, physical gestures of care, collective spaces and a recognition of our own positionality. With that, this is an invitation to dive into the relatability of some of those feelings and the urgent need for change towards a future that is inclusive and caring of every single body. I am grateful to the artists, as always, for being vulnerable and sharing their work publicly, during this time. We must continue to create, and use these tools to understand even the most unprecedented times. Let’s continue to show up for each other fiercely and sometimes also tenderly. Let’s not ever forget the importance and the politics of care for one another.

By Marcela Pardo Ariza