PRESS RELEASES
pt. 2 Gallery is pleased to present Queenship, a solo exhibition of new work by Angela Hennessy. For her first solo exhibition with the gallery, she explores the implications of abstraction for black and queer identities. Read more after the jump!
Read Morept. 2 Gallery is pleased to announce No Place I’d Rather Be, a solo exhibition of work by David Tim.
Read Morept. 2 Gallery is pleased to announce The Stories I Tell Myself, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Lenworth McIntosh. For McIntosh’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, he draws on memories of his native Jamaica, exploring the influence of television during his upbringing, as well as heightened energy instigated by other creative forms such as music and dance.
Read Morept. 2 Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by John Martin. Martin is known for his vibrant and whimsical interpretations of vehicles and tools, which are often anthropomorphized to a degree in which personality outweighs functionality.
Read MorePt. 2 Gallery is pleased to present Holding, an exhibition of new work by Lena Gustafson, Maria Paz, and Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo. The mixed media exhibition brings together Gustafsonʼs paintings on canvas and paper, Pazʼs painted ceramics and new charcoal drawings, and Branfman-Verissimoʼs works on mylar and site-specific installations.
Read Morept. 2 Gallery is pleased to announce Pathways, a solo exhibition of new paintings by the San Francisco based artist Olivia Nevins-Carbins. Inspired by the arte nouveau forms that grace the gates of San Francisco’s Victorian houses, Nevins-Carbins pays homage to the history and architectural landscape of native city, telling stories of those who inhabit such houses along the way.
Read Morept. 2 Gallery is pleased to present Nikichyu ‘ok’w ‘w-ewolek’ ”Everything has a name”, a solo exhibition by Saif Azzuz.
Read Morept. 2 Gallery is pleased to announce our Represented Group Exhibition featuring new works by the fifteen artists represented by the Oakland-based gallery. While the represented artists and their exhibited works vary greatly in terms of media, scale, and concept, the artists themselves are related thanks to the community that brings them together.
Read Morept. 2 Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of Oakland-based artist Lenworth Mcintosh.
Read Morept. 2 Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of Yétundé Olagbaju.
Read Morept. 2 Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of Oakland-based visual artist Ryan Whelan. Whelan uses soft pastel to counter the rigidity of acrylic paint and embraces the unexpected results of pastel pigments smearing and smudging
Read Morept. 2 Gallery is pleased to present Cielo’s Gate #42, a solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures by the San Francisco-based artist Isaac Vazquez Avila. For his first exhibition with the gallery, Avila will present new paintings and sculptures that commemorate people, places, objects, and times in his life - both real and imagined.
Read Morept. 2 Gallery is pleased to present Making a Space, a solo exhibition of new work by the Frenchtown, New Jersey-based painter Ethan Stuart. Stuart’s paintings detail a simultaneous narrative and emotional reaction to the narrative.
Read Morept. 2 Gallery is pleased to present I Wake to Sleep, a solo exhibition of new paintings by the Chicago-based artist Soumya Netrabile. Netrabile’s paintings for the exhibition detail two new bodies of work, a series of imagined botanical arrangements, and Requiem, a series of paintings that examine a non-physical space where the soul, energy and nature coexist.
Read Morept. 2 Gallery is excited to announce the representation of Liz Hernández. Learn more after the jump.
Read Morept. 2 Gallery is pleased to present A Series of Meditations on the Complexities of Life, a solo exhibition of new work by Wardell McNeal. In McNeal’s first exhibition with the gallery, the painter expands his distinctive form of stylized figurative painting. The paintings exhibited represent a journey in the artist’s spiritual growth through knowledge and discovery and in formal properties of texture, color and perspective.
Read Morept. 2 Gallery is pleased to announce Poetry, After All, a solo exhibition of new paintings by San Francisco based artist Chelsea Ryoko Wong. For her first exhibition with the gallery, Wong presents scenes of social interaction and peaceful meditation through the use of vivid colors and layered compositions.
Read Morept. 2 Gallery is pleased to announce Sweeping, a solo exhibition of new paintings by the San Francisco based painter Rachel Kaye. Sweeping is Kaye’s first exhibition with the gallery. Known for her experimentation in color and texture, Kaye’s newest paintings explore the formal elements of shape and color on a large scale.
Read Morept. 2 Gallery is pleased to present Slow Tide, a solo exhibition of new works by the Oakland-based artist Kelly Ording. Slow Tide expands Ording’s oeuvre of dyed and methodically painted works through deep investigations in both landscape and abstraction.
Read Morept. 2 Gallery is pleased to present Drawings and Pictures and Time, a solo exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by the France-based Australian artist Jordy Kerwick. Concentrated on Kerwick’s small-format drawings, the exhibition depicts Kerwick’s vast imagination and evolving subject matter. Created during the ever-lengthening Covid-19 pandemic, these drawings lay the groundwork for Kerwick’s latest paintings, depicting a new lexicon of animal busts, the human form in varying poses, and mythical, and imagined entities.
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