Shows – Page 13 – Axis Gallery

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.

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.