Popoxcomitls: Cuentos en Barro (Stories in Clay) – Ray Gonzales and Gabriel Gonzales

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Popoxcomitls- Cuentos en Barro on view at Axis Gallery in February, features the works of father & son artists Ray & Gabriel Gonzales. These artists explore and depict ancestral, pre-Columbian stories and deities using clay as the medium and Popoxcomitls, (Nahuatl ceremonial smudge vessels used to bless and cleanse), as the canvases.

Social Sculptures – Peter Foucault

For over a decade Peter Foucault has been creating community based, social practice projects that utilize mobile structures created by the artist to directly engage audiences in public spaces. Participants are invited to share their voice and ideas around issues that impact their lives and neighborhoods. A selection of these “Social Sculptures” will be on view at Axis Gallery in January 2024 and a month-long participatory project will be set up in the gallery inviting visitors to contribute. In addition the exhibition will feature documentation of previous mobile projects and collaborations.

Visual Takeaway – Roma Devanbu

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In 2023, artist Roma Devanbu spent eight months in and around Germany simply seeing and responding with the fresh eye that being a stranger in a new/old world provides. The images that resulted are served up on Pappteller zum Mitnehman – the paper plates “To Take” used by both street vendors and bakeries in many parts of Europe. Their distinctive rectangular shapes and fluted corners of the plates function as frames for Devanbus visual takeaway.