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SUMMARY:Exhibit It! A Community Art Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit It! A Community Art Exhibit \nIt’s time for our annual non-juried exhibit to highlight the talent of our community’s artists! Artists ages 16 and up can drop off one artwork in any medium at the Pence Gallery on Friday\, June 26\, beginning at 11:30 AM. This is a first come\, first served process. No early drop-offs accepted. \nArtworks are limited to 30″ in any direction\, including the frame\, and no more than 50 pounds. All artworks must be framed\, or ready to install. \nThe first 50 submissions will be admitted after artists pay a fee of $35 for Members and $40 for non-Members. Please be prepared to fill out information about your piece including the title\, year made\, medium\, dimensions\, retail price\, etc. \nParticipants can win the Curator’s Choice award\, announced during the reception on July 10. Or they can win the Public Choice award\, chosen by viewers who vote when visiting the exhibit at the gallery\, which awards a free Pence membership and a photo in the Davis Enterprise. \nArtist call drop-off date: Friday\, June 26 beginning at 11:30 AM\nSubmission fee: $35 Members\, $40 non-Members\nExhibit dates: July 3 – August 16\, 2026\nReception: July 10\, 6-9 PM (Awards at 7:30 PM) \nThis exhibit is sponsored by Dawn Daro. \n  \n 
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/exhibit-it-a-community-art-exhibit-45/
LOCATION:Pence Gallery\, 212 D St\, Davis\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Community
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SUMMARY:Slice: A Juried Exhibit of Regional Art
DESCRIPTION:Slice: A Juried Exhibit of Regional Art\nExhibit: July 10 – August 16\, 2026\nReception: July 10\, 6-9 PM (Awards at 8 PM) \nSlice celebrates the diversity of expression in our region with an array of sculpture\, prints\, paintings\, and photography created by 36 visual artists. This year marks the 14th anniversary of the Pence’s regional call to artists\, affectionately called Slice. Representing a ‘slice’ of work fresh from the studio produced by new and established artists working in the state\, this annual juried exhibit has quickly gained a reputation for displaying innovative and thought-provoking work. The selected work is chosen by the juror for its merit rather than its ability to fit within any particular theme or concept. As with any juried ‘open theme’ selection\, the connections between the artworks can prove to be mind-bending or head-scratching. \nGioia Fonda is this year’s juror of Slice. Fonda is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in two-dimensional media (painting\, drawing\, sewing\, and photography) with occasional forays in sculpture\, social practice\, and public art. She tends to work in a colorful and non-objective manner\, but just under the surface\, her work is often imbued with storytelling and narrative. She has a bi-coastal art education\, having earned a BFA at the California College of the Arts and an MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Gioia is a dedicated member of the Sacramento art community\, contributing as an artist\, curator\, jurist\, and collaborator. She is also a tenured professor of art at Sacramento City College\, where she teaches painting\, drawing\, and design. Her work has been exhibited widely throughout Northern California and is held in many private and public collections throughout the U.S. \nImage: Michael Larson\, “Day Turns to Night #2”
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/slice-a-juried-exhibit-of-regional-art/
LOCATION:Pence Gallery\, 212 D St\, Davis\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art
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SUMMARY:Mirabel Wigon: Earth Stars
DESCRIPTION:Mirabel Wigon: Earth Stars\nExhibit: July 10 – August 16\, 2026\nReception: July 10\, 6-9 PM (Free) \nMirabel Wigon’s Earth Stars brings together her expansive new series of botanical inspired paintings. Working in oil and acrylic on canvas\, her paintings have an illustrative quality\, immersing the viewer in imaginative worlds where flora works in tandem with geometric forms. Contrasting elements of line and shape collaborate with one another\, inventing dynamic universes with enchanting qualities. The surreal nature of her paintings is augmented by the use of augmented reality technology\, in which viewers can see forms take 3D form. As if depicting evolutionary scenes\, Wigon creates dioramas of sublime floral transformation. \nImage: Mirabel Wigon\, “Celestial Lattice”
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/mirabel-wigon-earth-stars/
LOCATION:Pence Gallery\, 212 D St\, Davis\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art
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SUMMARY:Surface Tension by Roma Devanbu
DESCRIPTION:ROMA DEVANBU\nSURFACE TENSION\nJuly 3 – August 2\, 2026 \nSecond Saturday Reception July 11th\, 5-8 PM \nRoma Devanbu has been making and exhibiting her paintings and mix-media work for decades. In Surface Tension\, her first exhibit exclusively of photographs\, we see her hungry painters eye hunting and gathering brush marks\, patterns and textures in the wide world around her. \nDevanbu says “Inside the studio I manipulate materials. I rub\, tear\, fold\, cut\, glue and paint to create images on paper and canvas. When I leave the studio my creative actions gain a broader context and I understand my gestures as echoes of larger elemental forces acting on natural and man-made surfaces.” \nThe photographs in this exhibition are records of a physical world in which materials collide\, collaborate\, stretch\, erode\, rust\, scratch\, drape\, freeze and embrace. \nThe subjects are approached in an unapologetically straight forward manner\, presenting the plain facts within the scope of her viewfinder. But\, each title includes a date and time\, down to the second\, reminding us that the unique set of circumstances is temporary and will be disrupted by the influence of reorganization or entropy. \nThe exhibition is dedicated to the memory of the gallerist/photo historian Alan Klotz and the photographer/educator Philip Perkis. Devanbu first met and studied with Klotz and Perkis while earning her MFA in painting from Pratt Institute in the mid 1980’s. \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nRoma Devanbu is a long time member of Axis Gallery and its current president. She is a studio resident at Verge Center for the Arts. Devanbu holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University\, an MFA from Pratt Institute and studied Asian Art History for one year at the University of Baroda in India. She was a full time tenured faculty member at Bergen Community College in NJ before moving to Davis\, CA where she lives with her husband\, the computer scientist Premkumar Devanbu. Her work is in private and corporate collections in the US and abroad and can be seen in many Northern California hospitals. For more info visit her website at roma.devanbu.com.
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/surface-tension-by-roma-devanbu-14/
LOCATION:Axis Gallery\, 625 S St\, Sacramento\, 95811\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art
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SUMMARY:Who are Orientals: Magenta Realism
DESCRIPTION:SHARON TSAO\nWHO ARE ORIENTALS: MAGENTA REALISM\nJuly 3 – August 2\, 2026\nSecond Saturday Reception: July 11\, 5–8 PM \nAbout forty years ago\, when I first came to California\, I was told that I was “Oriental.” I was also told that certain tables and chests were “Oriental\,” and that a particular decorative style was likewise considered “Oriental\,” even though these things looked unfamiliar to me. \nThe works in this exhibition are largely produced in what I was told is an “Oriental” style or manner. They originate from dried Boston ivy vines resembling twisted tree branches\, gathered after years of growth without human intervention and coated with an artificial magenta surface. \nThe application of magenta coating violently interrupts this natural index. Historically\, magenta is among the first fully synthetic modern pigments\, inseparable from industrial chemistry\, mechanical reproduction\, and the chromatic excess of modernity. Here\, color no longer functions descriptively\, but operatively. The magenta surface transforms the dead vines into unstable signs oscillating between the imagined seductions of the “Oriental” and the chromatic excess of industrial modernity\, between contamination and ritual\, and between transcendence and artifice. If the branches retain the temporality of decay\, the color introduces what Jean Baudrillard might describe as the logic of simulation: reality intensified precisely through its artificiality. \nThe works also echo a reversed form of classical Chinese literati aesthetics. Where traditional literati painting often pursued “compression through weathered emptiness” — reducing the world into ink\, void\, and gesture — these works enact a compression through chromatic saturation. The tangled vine becomes a condensed structure of historical memory\, while magenta operates almost as a contemporary counterpart to ink: not natural\, but hyper-artificial; not withdrawn\, but aggressively present. \nSuspended between objecthood and theatricality\, ruin and ornament\, realism and hallucination\, the works propose a different understanding of realism itself. Reality here is not achieved through representation\, but through direct material presence complicated by cultural coding\, synthetic color\, and the unstable perceptual systems through which contemporary viewers encounter nature. \nJoin us at Axis Gallery\, located at 625 S Street in Sacramento’s historic R Street Corridor\, within the Verge Center for the Arts building. The gallery has exhibited innovative contemporary art for over 35 years and continues to serve as a vital space for artists to explore\, connect\, and share work outside the commercial sphere.\nGallery hours: Friday–Sunday\, 12–5 PM \nABOUT THE ARTIST \nSharon Tsao is a sculptor\, art historian\, and educator whose work explores the intersections of nature\, memory\, cultural identity\, and material transformation. She received a B.A. in Sculpture from the China Academy of Art in 1982 and earned a Ph.D. in Art History from Stanford University in 1996. Tsao has taught Art History at Postsecondary Educational institutions\, where she supervised graduate research in art history.\nHer works have been exhibited\, collected\, and auctioned internationally\, and are held in private and public collections in Asia\, North America\, and Europe.
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/who-are-orientals-magenta-realism-14/
LOCATION:Axis Gallery\, 625 S St\, Sacramento\, 95811\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art
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SUMMARY:Surface Tension by Roma Devanbu
DESCRIPTION:ROMA DEVANBU\nSURFACE TENSION\nJuly 3 – August 2\, 2026 \nSecond Saturday Reception July 11th\, 5-8 PM \nRoma Devanbu has been making and exhibiting her paintings and mix-media work for decades. In Surface Tension\, her first exhibit exclusively of photographs\, we see her hungry painters eye hunting and gathering brush marks\, patterns and textures in the wide world around her. \nDevanbu says “Inside the studio I manipulate materials. I rub\, tear\, fold\, cut\, glue and paint to create images on paper and canvas. When I leave the studio my creative actions gain a broader context and I understand my gestures as echoes of larger elemental forces acting on natural and man-made surfaces.” \nThe photographs in this exhibition are records of a physical world in which materials collide\, collaborate\, stretch\, erode\, rust\, scratch\, drape\, freeze and embrace. \nThe subjects are approached in an unapologetically straight forward manner\, presenting the plain facts within the scope of her viewfinder. But\, each title includes a date and time\, down to the second\, reminding us that the unique set of circumstances is temporary and will be disrupted by the influence of reorganization or entropy. \nThe exhibition is dedicated to the memory of the gallerist/photo historian Alan Klotz and the photographer/educator Philip Perkis. Devanbu first met and studied with Klotz and Perkis while earning her MFA in painting from Pratt Institute in the mid 1980’s. \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nRoma Devanbu is a long time member of Axis Gallery and its current president. She is a studio resident at Verge Center for the Arts. Devanbu holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University\, an MFA from Pratt Institute and studied Asian Art History for one year at the University of Baroda in India. She was a full time tenured faculty member at Bergen Community College in NJ before moving to Davis\, CA where she lives with her husband\, the computer scientist Premkumar Devanbu. Her work is in private and corporate collections in the US and abroad and can be seen in many Northern California hospitals. For more info visit her website at roma.devanbu.com.
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/surface-tension-by-roma-devanbu-15/
LOCATION:Axis Gallery\, 625 S St\, Sacramento\, 95811\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art
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ORGANIZER;CN="Axis Gallery":MAILTO:info@axisgallery.org
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SUMMARY:Who are Orientals: Magenta Realism
DESCRIPTION:SHARON TSAO\nWHO ARE ORIENTALS: MAGENTA REALISM\nJuly 3 – August 2\, 2026\nSecond Saturday Reception: July 11\, 5–8 PM \nAbout forty years ago\, when I first came to California\, I was told that I was “Oriental.” I was also told that certain tables and chests were “Oriental\,” and that a particular decorative style was likewise considered “Oriental\,” even though these things looked unfamiliar to me. \nThe works in this exhibition are largely produced in what I was told is an “Oriental” style or manner. They originate from dried Boston ivy vines resembling twisted tree branches\, gathered after years of growth without human intervention and coated with an artificial magenta surface. \nThe application of magenta coating violently interrupts this natural index. Historically\, magenta is among the first fully synthetic modern pigments\, inseparable from industrial chemistry\, mechanical reproduction\, and the chromatic excess of modernity. Here\, color no longer functions descriptively\, but operatively. The magenta surface transforms the dead vines into unstable signs oscillating between the imagined seductions of the “Oriental” and the chromatic excess of industrial modernity\, between contamination and ritual\, and between transcendence and artifice. If the branches retain the temporality of decay\, the color introduces what Jean Baudrillard might describe as the logic of simulation: reality intensified precisely through its artificiality. \nThe works also echo a reversed form of classical Chinese literati aesthetics. Where traditional literati painting often pursued “compression through weathered emptiness” — reducing the world into ink\, void\, and gesture — these works enact a compression through chromatic saturation. The tangled vine becomes a condensed structure of historical memory\, while magenta operates almost as a contemporary counterpart to ink: not natural\, but hyper-artificial; not withdrawn\, but aggressively present. \nSuspended between objecthood and theatricality\, ruin and ornament\, realism and hallucination\, the works propose a different understanding of realism itself. Reality here is not achieved through representation\, but through direct material presence complicated by cultural coding\, synthetic color\, and the unstable perceptual systems through which contemporary viewers encounter nature. \nJoin us at Axis Gallery\, located at 625 S Street in Sacramento’s historic R Street Corridor\, within the Verge Center for the Arts building. The gallery has exhibited innovative contemporary art for over 35 years and continues to serve as a vital space for artists to explore\, connect\, and share work outside the commercial sphere.\nGallery hours: Friday–Sunday\, 12–5 PM \nABOUT THE ARTIST \nSharon Tsao is a sculptor\, art historian\, and educator whose work explores the intersections of nature\, memory\, cultural identity\, and material transformation. She received a B.A. in Sculpture from the China Academy of Art in 1982 and earned a Ph.D. in Art History from Stanford University in 1996. Tsao has taught Art History at Postsecondary Educational institutions\, where she supervised graduate research in art history.\nHer works have been exhibited\, collected\, and auctioned internationally\, and are held in private and public collections in Asia\, North America\, and Europe.
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/who-are-orientals-magenta-realism-15/
LOCATION:Axis Gallery\, 625 S St\, Sacramento\, 95811\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art
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