California State University Stanislaus (Stan State), will hold an exhibition at the Art Space on Main Oct. 1 to Oct. 27 featuring Professor Marty Azevdo’s body of work. 
The reception for the exhibition will be held on Thursday Oct. 13 at 5:30 p.m. with an artist talk at 6 p.m.
The new exhibition will hold a new perspective for the viewers to experience as well as for Marty Azevedo himself. The body of work will express the new direction Mr. Azevedo has recently engaged in. As well as contributing into the idea of having unpredictable labels or interpretations the viewers will personally distill. 
“There is a standard kind of cop out amongst artists sometimes that say you’re going to look at art and you’re going to see whatever you want,” Azevedo said. 
“Which is always going to be slightly true, but hopefully as an artist I’m steering people towards the thoughts that I have or at least bringing them close to what I was thinking about.”
This perception makes it a little difficult for Mr. Azevedo to know, what and how the audience will interpret his exhibition compared to his previous work. 
Marty Azevdo’s work is titled If Destruction be Our Lot. The work mainly emphasizes the new direction the artist is currently engaging in. 
“I teach printmaking here. This is actually going to be the first body of work that I’ve created that doesn’t really have much printmaking to it. After doing printmaking for ten years or so now, I needed to change in mediums. Most of the work is photography, video, a little bit of sculpture and there are some print drawings.”
According to Azevedo, most of his influence birthed when he was at an artist’s residency this past summer in North Eastern, Wyoming. His thought process was of traditional modes in art, such as the deeper roots behind still life and landscapes.
 He emphasizes the particular deep roots by outlining the “power of man” with two particular themes: mortality and the shortness of life.
“Such as still life(s), you have a lot of ideas about mortality and the shortness of life. How temporal everything is. There are bits of landscapes in the work, but its not a landscape in a traditional sense. Looking at a lot of American landscape painting and how that relates to ideas of manifest destiny and the odd nature of thinking that god wanting man to take over the land and tame it and make it his own.”
 Along with his shift in practice, Azevedo reflects himself within his art work as being “pessimistic.”
“It sounds really negative, but mostly pessimism is about the nature of man.”
To elaborate, Azevedo outlines the realistic side of human nature, “the human condition” as identities.
Going with the flow of his shift in practice was a new perspective for himself, he acknowledges how learning new tools can hinder an artist from being creative. While engaging in his new direction, his work experienced limitations and trial-and-error. 
“It’s kind of going with the flow since I haven’t really worked in these mediums before. I have ideas of what the work should look like and hopefully I’m getting as close to that as possible.”
Azevedo hopes to also keep using the new practice in photography, sculpture and video as he moves through his new direction.
 “I’m really hoping to see how my ideas translate into these different mediums, and not necessarily always relying on printmaking as my soul means of expression.”
As the work visually communicates within its own embodiment, Azevedo invites viewers to engage in connecting with his work.
“I would hope that there would be some self-reflection from the viewer,” Azevedo said.
For more information visit, https://www.csustan.edu/art-gallery/art-space-main/upcoming-exhibitions.