Axis Gallery is pleased to present “Under Construction” an exhibition of works by new members Benjamin Hunt, Nick Shepard and William Mead. This exhibition introduces these artists’ interdisciplinary approaches through both traditional and new media. Hunt, Shepard, and Mead display works that reinterpret the construction of images that reflect art history, still life, production, and memory.
Benjamin Hunt is a native of San Diego, CA and has lived in Sacramento since 2009. He received his
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Axis Gallery is pleased to present “Under Construction” an exhibition of works by new members Benjamin Hunt, Nick Shepard and William Mead. This exhibition introduces these artists’ interdisciplinary approaches through both traditional and new media. Hunt, Shepard, and Mead display works that reinterpret the construction of images that reflect art history, still life, production, and memory.
Benjamin Hunt is a native of San Diego, CA and has lived in Sacramento since 2009. He received his MFA in Spatial Art from San José State University in 2008. Most recently, Ben was awarded the Leff-Davis Fund for Visual Artists by the Sacramento Region Community Foundation. He was a participating artist in the virtual reality public art project “Broadway Augmented” produced by the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission in collaboration with California State University, Sacramento and the Greater Broadway Partnership. Ben has been an adjunct lecturer at California State University, Sacramento and has worked as an exhibition Preparator at the Crocker Art Museum.
Nick Shepard is a photographer based in Sacramento, CA where he is a resident artist at Verge Center for the Arts. He grew up in New York City, attended Carleton College in Northfield, MN, and then the School of Visual Arts in NYC. His work was recently featured in the Oregon Biennial 2016: The Salon, and in Photography Now 2015 at the Center for Photography at Woodstock. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography at Sacramento State University.
William Mead is originally from Boston, Massachusetts, and received his BFA in painting and sculpture from Parsons School of Art and Design in New York City. Since 2005 he has focused most his efforts on design, web development and teaching. William is interested in questions about time, randomness, freedom, patterns, permanence, and the nature of creativity. Currently, his work is inspired by the abstract expressionism of the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s. Mead is also very much interested in exploring new media, such as the world wide web and programming to push art into spaces usually reserved for commercial endeavors.
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