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7 Dec 2020

Posterworks (MOSAIC EXHIBITION)
Curators: Beth Rubel and Alex Rubio

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Axis is pleased to announce Posterwork, an exhibition curated by Beth Rubel and Alex Rubio. Posterwork is an exploration of traditional poster art and design, which have influenced modern life, including politics, culture and diverse industries. Posters continue to be a preferred, printed medium for contemporary graphic artists and activists. MOSAIC student artists present posters featuring compelling graphic design which captures this unique moment in time of cultural and socio-political importance.

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

Flor Mort, dead flower – Tavarus Blackmon, Halcyon Clay and Patti Kilroy
Curator:Tavarus Blackmon

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This exhibit brings together three artists who have connected online during the COVID-19 Pandemic. This installation is comprised of work from Halcyon, Patti Kilroy and Axis Gallery member, Tavarus Blackmon.
Through expressive works on canvas, conceptual painting in the expanded field and sound art work, this experience is influenced by Art History and the use of the floral, still life or dry flowers, in art. From what was a formal exercise in representation emerges a contemporary exhibition of active picture planes, playful, non-paintings and expressive sound. What does such an image mean in our culture today, gripped by a deadly virus and demands for social justice? Flor Mort, is concerned with presence, immediacy and the act of play. And, how we may be better to observe the stillness we can inhabit through a practice and the lived experience.

15 Aug 2020

Summer Ventis – There is still a ground. There is still a sky.

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So much is uncertain. We find ourselves at a boundary, in a margin, on a cusp. The space between the sky and ground, between before and after, between self and other is a space both terrifying and full of possibilities. The works in this exhibition exist in the space between. They engage the dystopian present and ask what possibilities it holds for a more hopeful future. There is still a ground. There is still a sky.

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

William Mead with Jake Lewis

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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.

12 Aug 2020

(re)flection
Nick Shepard and Jake Seltzer

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Artists and lifelong friends Nick Shepard and Jake Seltzer collaborated via text message and email to explore the COVID-19 disruptions from multiple perspectives. Shepard’s understated and layered photographs depict past and present scenes as mediated images displayed through the surface of electronic devices. Seltzer’s brash and energetic poems reflect on wide-ranging experiences. Together, the images and words create a complex portrait of this extraordinary moment.