PRESS RELEASES
pt. 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: Oakland is pleased to present Elements Of..., a group exhibition by Angela Hennessy and Christopher Martin, curated by Adrian Octavius Walker. The works in this show contend with universal experiences - life, death, love, belonging - mediated through Blackness; as a personal and lived experience, as a part of an ancestral lineage, and as a historical construction. Hennessy fuses European and African mourning rituals using hair. Martin subverts traditional tattoo flash images to simultaneously satirize and interrogate slavery, segregation, and white supremacy. Read more after the jump!
Read Morept. 2: Oakland is pleased to present We Matter, a solo exhibition of photographs by Adrian Octavius Walker. Walker’s work explores Black American beauty traditions among Black men. The intimacy depicted in each photograph erases the possibility of threat often assigned to black men and instead pushes the viewer to see the power of kinship within the Black community. Walker seeks to expand notions of Blackness by challenging the American perception of Black men. Read more after the jump.
Read Morept.2 Gallery is excited to announce the representation of Oakland based artist Adrian Octavius Walker, whom’s latest body of work “We Matter” opens Friday, August 30th at The Greens in Columbia, Missouri. Adrian O. Walker’s new body of work explores Black American beauty traditions among Black men. The intimacy that Walker depicts in each photograph erases the possibility of threat often assigned to black men and instead pushes the viewer to see the power of kinship within the Black community. Read more after the jump.
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