
Double Take – Peter Foucault, Erin Kaczkowski, Justin Nunnally, Mirabel Wigon, Danielle Wogulis
December 4th, 2022 – January 1st, 2023
Double Take consists of work exploring a range of strategies from diagrammatic mapping of spatial systems to ambiguously encoded signs, considering different means of storing and recognizing information. The featured artists are new members of Axis Gallery who produce radically different work that share fundamental reflections on human memory and learning. At first glance, the selected works seem to be a reflection on the quotidian. However, upon closer inspection, they are metacognitive exercises that consider the functions of perception, cognition, and memory.
Memory and perception fundamentally differ. Image-making (object-making) is an intentional interpretation of memory. Perception is the act of seeing from one vantage point, while memory is conflated with other associations. Imagination is a “what if” proposition, a suspension of disbelief, a tool from which we can conserve both memory and perception in an object. Through form, material, and our various processes, we are all encoding, marking, and making new associations; a sort of roadmap for the viewer to consider the accumulation of thought and action.
The strategies between works vary, but accumulation of material and the juxtaposition of elements to create an internal perplexity is shared. Danielle’s work explores biological processes and their relation to current events, social systems, and how the body experiences the world around it. Mirabel’s work considers how painted space grapples with multiple sensory stimuli coalescing into, and onto, the flat painted space through a variety of painting languages to explore experience, immersion, and separation with space and place. Erin uses collage and assemblage to explore material, memory, and new associations. Peter uses the print matrix to highlight the liminal space between systems and how two separate systems act upon each other to create new experiences. Justin’s works challenge the viewer to consider perception most directly, confusing our position between object and two-dimensional image to consider human sight and cognition (recognition).