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Axis Gallery is pleased to present Desire Paths, a two-person exhibition of contemporary paintings by Marie Thibeault & Patrick Brien, curated by Mirabel Wigon. These works examine abstracted notions of the landscape in response to the artists’ regions and lived experiences, both seen and unseen.
THRESHOLDS explores the idea of “home” as a fluid, varied, and blurred concept. Sifting through items inherited or foraged from the domestic sphere draws attention to issues of labor, equity, gender, domestic tensions, and also how people care for those closest to them and pay loving homage to those no longer present. Artists Raquel Mullins, Victoria Sauer, Joanne Tepper Saffren, Carrie Ziser, and Rachael Zur work in varied scale and artistic media, but notions of home are the point in which they connect.
For a Day Without a Sky envisions a moment when humankind has not only lost touch with nature, but where nature has been lost. Exploring and exploiting the symbolism of advertising, plexiglass becomes an ersatz replacement for stained glass windows … Continued
About the Show “Mercado” translates into market. In many countries the mercado is where artists and artisans present and sell their works on the street and on plazas in an informal setting. This small group exhibit’s focus is to display … Continued
Cementation/Dissolution is a solo exhibition of landscape paintings by Mirabel Wigon. These paintings are inspired by her immediate surroundings and explore experience, immersion, and separation within the built and natural environment. The paintings acknowledge infrastructure instability and ecological degradation as dire existential threats, emphasizing the flawed modernist narrative of progress and innovation.
The works in this show reflect a long and persistent personal desire to understand Self Care, including the ways in which the creative process can be an act of Self Care.
For his fourth main gallery exhibit with Axis Gallery, Sacramento artist Nick Shepard presents “Content-Aware,” a group of new photographic compositions that celebrate the act of looking carefully.
San Francisco art supply store Case for Making comes to Axis to present a snapshot of its current community of teachers, makers and staff. Quilts of watercolor paintings, with individual pieces made by over 60 artists, have been lovingly assembled by CFM staff, coordinated by founder Alexis Joseph, and curated by artist Eliza Gregory. The exhibition showcases these pieces, as well as the ideas and values manifested by this unusual institution-as-artwork.
During the pandemic I explored many new things. I learned how to make bread from scratch, started taking Martial Arts lessons and had daily existential breakdowns. The forces at play also influenced my way of making art and I began … Continued
New work by new(ish) Axis Gallery members.