Learning From Life Cycles – Dan Tran
23 Jan 2022

Learning From Life Cycles – Dan Tran

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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.

Axis Through the Gift Shop
31 Oct 2021

Axis Through the Gift Shop

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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.

Dad Life Tavarus Blackmon New Paintings
24 Oct 2021

Dad Life
Tavarus Blackmon
New Paintings

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“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.”

Kevin Tracy – Cognitive Dissonance
15 Oct 2021

Kevin Tracy – Cognitive Dissonance

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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.

Summer Ventis – Held Breaths
24 Sep 2021

Summer Ventis – Held Breaths

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The last year and a half has been one long held breath; a time of caution, of waiting, of restraint, of restriction and withdrawal. It has brought new hardships and magnified existing ones, but it has also forced us to find new ways to connect. The works in this exhibition are a meditation on the times in which we find ourselves. They are a way of externalizing and processing the tension and fear with which we live, and also a celebration of new forms of connection and communication that have emerged as a result of our separation from each other. I offer my held breath to you; I offer to hold your breath for a moment so that you might find a better way to breathe.

Richard Gilles – HOUSE II
23 Sep 2021

Richard Gilles – HOUSE II

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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.

Eliza Gregory – [Placeholder]
24 Aug 2021

Eliza Gregory – [Placeholder]

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A lot of amazing people are working on the theme of humans’ relationships to the places they live—the planet as a whole, and the micro-ecosystems of each home, thinking about how we relate to our neighborhoods and local environments. My work on this topic has begun with an investigation of the work of others, from looking over my colleague and co-teacher Doug Dertinger’s shoulder at his decades-long research into visualizing landscape, to reading the new book by Suzanne Simard about her research into forest intelligence, to speaking with my friends and neighbors about the plants they nurture and the creatures they observe on their farms and in their gardens. This exhibition is an invitation to you to enter this research alongside me, and it’s a question to you as well—what else should I look at? What else should I think about? How do you think about and engage with land, with your physical home? I’ll be in the gallery to hear your answers, paper and pens will be provided, or you can send me a message at info@elizagregory.com

Roma Devanbu – Stone Doily, New Cut Paper Work
12 Aug 2021

Roma Devanbu – Stone Doily, New Cut Paper Work

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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.