Axel Stohlberg | The Architecture of Dreams

The Rebecca Lawrence Gallery Entry

July 26- August 24 | Opening reception: Friday, July 26, 5-7 PM

Axel Stohlberg is a multi-disciplinary, process-driven Vermont artist who uses common materials in nontraditional ways. For Stohlberg, materials are an important and exciting means to translate a story to the viewer. In the exhibition, The Architecture of Dreams, Stohlberg explores the spaces in between – here and there, then and now, dreaming and awake, tangible and intangible. Through dimpled green glass, we can feel our memories turn and transform; in lines of wire, we can trace our way back home to places that might not exist anymore, to places we have yet to go. The shape of a gable can tug at us, reminding us of something we can’t quite place; a line might be a thread back to something we once knew. In the many ways in which our minds twinge and catalog emotion, Stohlberg invites us to sit in that delicious, haunting in-between: painful, nostalgic, amorphous, surreal.

Axel Stohlberg | Biography

Axel Stohlberg is a native of New Jersey who received his formal art training in New York City and Boston. He has participated in several intensive artist residency programs over the years, and the list of public exhibitions of his work is long and varied. Axel’s art is featured in many regional and national private collections. In addition to his lifelong pursuit of artistic expression, he co-founded and for 30 years was the sole proprietor of Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery, a well-known picture framing and gallery business in Waterbury, Vermont. Axel Stohlberg has lived in Vermont and Maine since 1978.