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Press Release - "As I Live and Breathe" by Angela Hennessy

Opening February 26th at SOMArts, "As I Live and Breathe" a solo exhibition by Angela Hennessy. Drawing upon divination practices from chess strategy, archetypal mythologies, and African diasporic traditions, Angela Hennessy’s As I Live and Breathe is compelled by the impulse to look up at the stars; to read the skies for origin and orientation.

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Press Release - "Into the Landscape" by Sune Christiansen

pt. 2 Gallery is pleased to present Into the Landscape, a solo exhibition of new paintings by the Danish painter Sune Christiansen. In Christiansen’s first exhibition with the gallery, he mediates on the abstractions and figurations that develop from intuitive explorations in color and composition.

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Press Release - "Multi-Purpose Room" by Muzae Sesay

Paintings and sculptures as they relate to a process of breaking down the need to “know” with the practice of engaging the curiosity, anxiety, and absurdity of our personal social reality in its unforeseeable present glory.

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Press Release - "Did you know love is healing?" by Jeffrey Cheung

pt. 2 Gallery is pleased to announce Did you know love is healing?, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Oakland-based artist Jeffrey Cheung. Presenting a new series of paintings and drawings created over the last year, this will be Cheung’s first exhibition with the gallery.

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Press Release - On Becoming a Star... by Yétúndé Olagbaju

pt 2. Gallery is pleased to present On Becoming a Star..., a solo exhibition by Yétúndé Olagbaju (they/them). For Olagbaju’s first solo show with the gallery, the artist presents paintings, sculptures, drawings, and video that explore their ongoing relationship to Mammy, the pair’s forceable approximation, and the liminal space the two occupy.

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Press Release - "The Stories I Tell Myself" by Lenworth McIntosh

pt. 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.

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