Press Release - "As I Live and Breathe" by Angela Hennessy
"As I Live and Breathe"
a solo exhibition by
Angela Hennessy
SOMArts
San Francisco, CA
February 26 – April 10, 2022
info@part2gallery.com
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.
The exhibition title is a statement of testimony from the position of a material witness while simultaneously invoking the body of the witness—living and breathing, therefore a challenge to notions of assumed neutrality.
Angela Hennessy
”Orbits 1”
Synthetic hair, foam, hose, steel and wood base
73 x 18 x 18 inches
2022
info@part2gallery.com
Angela Hennessy is an Oakland based artist and founder of See Black Womxn. She is an Associate Professor at California College of the Arts where teaches courses on visual and cultural narratives of death and textile theory. Through writing, studio work, and performance, her practice questions assumptions about Death and the Dead themselves. She uses a spectrum of color and other phenomena of light to expose mythologies of identity. Ephemeral and celestial forms constructed with every day gestures of domestic labor—washing, wrapping, stitching, weaving, brushing, and braiding.
Her work has been featured in Sculpture Magazine, The New Yorker, Nat Brut, Surface Design Journal, Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture and in exhibitions at pt. 2 Gallery, Museum of the African Diaspora, and Southern Exposure. She has upcoming exhibitions at Contemporary Jewish Museum, Palo Alto Art Center, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles and the Oakland Museum of California and recently participated in Facebook AIR program and the Mesa Refuge Writer’s Residency. She is a 2019 San Francisco Artadia Award winner and recipient of the 2021 Joan Mitchell Fellowship.
Angela Hennessy
”Award Winning Star (The Last Rally)”
Synthetic hair, twist tie wire
48 x 24 inches
2022
info@part2gallery.com