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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.
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.
The concept of this exhibit is to explore the conversation of what remains after the passage of time, the exposure to the elements, and the nature of man.
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
Increasingly, transdisciplinary artists like Dan Tran are re-assessing their roles in the relationships between buildings, built environments, and the non-built ecosystems that provide the raw materials and energy that sustain them. Individually adopting greener studio practices and making material transitions are common responses to the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, pollution and many other interwoven social and environmental injustices. Yet, artists are also innately poised to cultivate unorthodox research relationships that weave disciplines, data, experiences and cultures in projects which then weave broader audiences and deeper mutual understanding. In doing so, they fill the ever-increasing need for the diverse, complex collaborations required to confront the complexities of the climate crisis as well as the ever-increasing need for more effective science communication.
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
Axis Through The Gift Shop is a holiday exhibition offering work from Axis members for immediate sale. It’s a moment for our non commercial gallery to briefly engage in COMMERCE–as a form and in earnest. Come sample our wares, enjoy a who’s-who of the current membership, and celebrate the holidays by bringing home some art for yourself, your family and your friends.
“Being a Dad is hard work. I want to show all that work. Mostly the violent and tender moments because those are the ones that remain with me. As a father my role is both complicated and beautiful and I use the cowl and tartan as a method to express this American Father. I never grew up in the ‘hood but I have seen people wear them. The antagonist wears a cowl because I want to connect the religiosity to the violence in a sincere way. The violence of the Father can be explicit, oblique or complicit. And the tartan connects the Father to both European roots of the Scottish Klan and those of the Middle East, Asia and North Africa, where the Check originated.”
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.