Upcoming Exhibits

Slice celebrates the diversity of expression in our region with an array of sculpture, prints, paintings, and photography created by 36 visual artists, representing a ‘slice’ of work fresh from the studio produced by new and established artists working in the state. This is an ‘open-theme” exhibit, so the selected work is chosen by the juror for its merit rather than its ability to fit within any particular theme or concept. Gioia Fonda is this year’s juror of Slice. 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.

Mirabel Wigon’s Earth Stars features imagined and fantastical futures with flora as the main subject. Her paintings deconstruct and reconstruct plant forms to explore the intermingled and entangled relationships in the natural world. Her range of mediated source materials, including photogrammetry scans of botanical specimens, offers new ways of looking at our planetary cohabitants. Wigon uses augmented reality to reveal the 3D models made through photogrammetry, further entangling the viewer in the processes of the paintings’ construction. Her reflections of mediation and translation call for a future that values diversity, adaptation, and perseverance.

Exhibit It! is a non-juried “open theme” exhibit which shines a spotlight on fifty local artists who submitted their choice of artwork in any medium for this summer display.

In his recent series of oil paintings, plein air painter David Burkholder explores the beauty and variety within Northern California and its close neighbors. Each painting was created during a different day or weekend trips out of his camper van. His paintings capture California’s warm light and diverse landscapes, bringing viewers back to a sense of presence and connection to nature.