The Twisted Track Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located on the R Street Corridor on the Corner of 12th & R Street in Sacramento, Ca.
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HOURS:
Tuesday through Thursday | 12pm - 4pm Friday | 12pm - 4pm & 6pm - 9pm
Saturday | 12pm - 9pm
Sunday | 12pm - 5pm
Listen: Donald Gensler runs the City of Sacramento Public Arts Department, is also an artist and attorney.
Show at Twisted Track Gallery /Artist: Donald Gensler Show Title: Garden blueprint/ / Opening night 8/7/26; Reception and Artist Talk 8/8/26
Garden blueprint Statement: Garden blueprint explores the biodiversity of plant life located at the coordinates 38° 39' 40" N 121° 28' 43" W in Sacramento, CA during this moment in time. Using the cyanotype photographic process to collect and document a taxonomy of current plant life as a layperson’s botanical research of the location, I have been making “azulejos” (Portuguese ceramic blue and white tiles) inspired prints for the past three years, documenting every plant on the property. Out of this documentation process has come an exploration of plant life in different formats. The series explores this subject matter through cyanotypes, monotypes, video, and silkscreen prints in various mediums. The series title and library of photogram prints identify the use of the traditional cyanotype photographic process combining Potassium Ferricyanide and Ferric Ammonium Citrate in equal parts with water. The combination of these iron-based salts with water creates the distinctive cyan blue when exposed to light on a surface, which may also be toned to other colors once printed. A once historic and widely used process for architectural drawings and plans, documentation of plants was one of the first artistic uses of cyanotypes by Anna Atkins, a 19th Century English botanist. Using this historic process pays homage to Ms. Atkins and past use of this process in the construction sector. That history forms a template for Garden blueprint (38° 39' 40" N 121° 28' 43" W), a mural scale artwork displaying a taxonomy of the diverse plant life at this location in Sacramento, CA. Hundreds of individual cyanotype “tiles” are aligned in a grid format and exhibited together as one artwork, much like blue and white Portuguese azulejos tiles created with metal oxide pigments and often displayed at mural scale on the exterior and interior of buildings. This display of over 200 cyanotype tiles forms the basis and framework for the other ongoing seriesin Garden blueprint. The other artworks in Garden blueprint use this taxonomy of plant prints collected as a library of inspiration, resource, and discovery. Each piece is a further exploration of the plant and its’ cultural and scientific relevance. At its’ root, Garden blueprint is an exploration of place and the wonders of plant ecology in that place.
Donald Gensler, 2026 Artist Statement:
Donald Gensler is an image maker. He sees the mediums he explores in service of his social practice, passion for the environment, and exploration of form. The artwork Gensler produces may be site influenced or site specific, may involve community participation or be research 2 focused, but regardless of the conceptual framework, the mediums explored always become a vehicle for expression whether as murals, installations, printmaking, video, or drawing. By investigating the form and medium, Gensler allows the process of making to inform his knowledge about the subject area. Images become translations of photographic processes where the camera is the initial vehicle for capture, but what is created may loose resolution, may be worked by hand, and always aids in the process of discovery. Artist Bio: Gensler received his Bachelor’s degree from Skidmore College, his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Juris Doctor degree from the McGeorge School of Law. He currently manages the City of Sacramento’s Art in Public Places program where he develops and leads program opportunities for artists that center community engagement and creative voice at the intersection of public space, neighborhoods, and the creative economy. He was an Adjunct Professor of Public Art in the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY and was a Lecturer for ten years at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design in Philadelphia, PA where he also worked with Mural Arts Philadelphia, painting murals and developing social justice centered arts programing. He volunteers his time assisting in legislative advocacy work for the Arts and supports alternative dispute resolution as a certified legal mediator with California Lawyers for the Arts. He actively writes about legal issues for artists, public space, mural making, social justice, and public art. His murals and writings on public art have been featured in the New York Times, Time Magazine, Philadelphia Inquirer, and in publications such as Maureen O’Connell’s, If These Walls Could Talk: Community Muralism and the Beauty of Justice, Kiriakos Iosifidis’s, Mural Art: Murals on Huge Public Spaces Around the World Vol. 2, and Golden, Pomilio, and Rice’s, More Philadelphia Murals.