Shows – Page 12 – Axis Gallery

1 Jul 2021

Kenna Doeringer – Anthem

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At first we fear change but once we learn to accept it, we can welcome and embrace it. Sometimes an evolution needs to be forced, causing a crack to form in the facade we create to protect ourselves, and see the light to start to break through. The light promoted the growth, it fed it, nurtured it, and cultivated it allowing expansion and continued development never imagined possible. “Anthem” is a visual representation of breaking through the illusion, allowing oneself to grow freely, and sharing the light with others. Anthropomorphizing these emotions as a freely formed amorphous structure it allowed for the cracks and imperfections to be embraced and enhanced. The light increases as the composition grows, and verges on dominating the entire canvas.

16 Jun 2021

Indices of Being – Curator, Tavarus Blackmon

Aleksandra Avramova, Zeina Baltagi, Elizabeth Cord, Michelle Lee, and Julia Rigby

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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?

4 Jun 2021

Ben Hunt – Operating Under the Influence

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Axis Gallery presents “Operating Under the Influence”, an exhibition of sculpture and photographic works by Benjamin Hunt.

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

Daniel Alejandro Trejo – Gravity Don’t Pull Me

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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.

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

3 Feb 2021

Doug Dertinger – March 2020 – March 2021

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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.

7 Dec 2020

Richard Gilles
The Sequestered Form

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In many ways the title of this series speaks for itself. As a photographer, I have always paid close attention to form but subject has always played the leading roll. Now because of COVID-19 isolation, I have been deprived of subject. With this new series of cut paper photographs, form now takes the lead.

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.