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SAN FRANCISCO - Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to welcome back represented artist Crystal Wagner for her third solo show with the gallery. Axiom features new and recent paper sculpture exploring form, chroma, and growth.

Focusing on texture and bright colors, Wagner constructs her signature biomorphic worlds from manipulated paper. Trained as a printmaker, Wagner begins with rainbow-hued, hand screen printed paper of varying tones. The resulting sculpture is created by cutting, folding, bending, and manipulating the paper.

Assembled with a sense of natural growth, each sculpture ranges in …