Axis Gallery is pleased to present Desire Paths, a two-person exhibition of contemporary paintings by Marie Thibeault & Patrick Brien, curated by Mirabel Wigon. These works examine abstracted notions of the landscape in response to the artists’ regions and lived experiences, both seen and unseen.

Desire Paths features a series of works which is quintessentially Californian, as they respond to the tradition of painting regionally. The works in question reject notions that abstraction is purely the realm of the non-objective. Visual cues of intersecting signs, both iconographic and material, can speak to the longing and search for ways to create meaning and see our world anew. With playful abandon each artist strives to harness the languages of painting to create a new pathway into the unknown.