Safety
Safety
Summer Ventis
March 21st-April 27th, 2025
Reception: Saturday, April 12th, 5-8 p.m.
Statement
What constitutes safety in the present we inhabit?
Who is and is not protected by the many and varied cautionary measures we put in place?
When we eliminate all that we see as a threat, who and what remains? What do we not even know is lost?
Bio
Summer Ventis’s work uses the printed surface to address internal and external landscapes and their intersections; the imprints we leave on each other and our surroundings and the imprints that our surroundings leave on us. She received a BA in Art from Grinnell College and an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Colorado Boulder. Her work has appeared in national and international exhibitions, and is held by collections including those of the Denver Art Museum and Proyecto ’ace in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a member of the Colorado-based collectives Hyperlink and ARTNAUTS and of Sacramento-based Axis Gallery and is Associate Professor of Printmaking at California State University Sacramento.