Warning, Watch, Advisory – Summer Ventis

The works in this exhibition address the uncertainty of our surroundings and how we as humans try to protect ourselves from that uncertainty. Pavement sits between us and the earth. Borders are drawn and redrawn. Signs and barriers warn us of dangers we may or may not be able to avoid. What are we warning and advising against? What are we watching for?

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.