Marginalia – Muzi Li Rowe

Axis Gallery is pleased to present Muzi Li Rowe's Marginalia in the main gallery in March.

Rowe is an interdisciplinary artist who works in photography, sculpture and drawing. She began using simple, accessible tools to create marks on paper as a way to process grief after her mother’s sudden passing. Since then, she has been making drawings as a regular studio practice, while experimenting with various types of mediums and materials, and using drawing as a meditative practice. These are Rowe’s visual diaries that reflect certain moments in the past, the abstract forms bringing back a particular memory, like the faded colors and the stained back of an old family photograph, suggesting a distance in time. When you look at these drawings, what do you see?

Exhibition dates: March 1 - 31st

Second Saturday Reception: March 9th, 5-8pm

Gallery hours Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 12-5pm. Free and open to the public!

About the Artist

Born and raised in Beijing, China, Rowe has lived in between Beijing, Sydney and Hawaii before residing in Northern California. Rowe received her MFA from University of California Davis in 2017. She is a resident artist at The Verge Center for the Arts and a member at Axis Gallery. Rowe is the recipient of Seeding Creativity, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2022. Past artist residencies include Wassaic Project, The Ali Youssefi Project and Vermont Studio Center. Rowe is currency teaching photography as a part-time faculty at Sacramento State University and American River College, she also works as freelance photographer under the name Eighteen Percent Labs.