pt. 2 Gallery is honored to present News from Nowhere, a collaborative presentation by Liz Hernández and Ryan Whelan for the 2024 edition of The Armory Show.
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Ryan Whelan presents "The River Can Run," his fourth exhibition at pt.2 Gallery, featuring an array of paintings, drawings, and kinetic sculptures, offering a renewed insight into his art practice.
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“Promise Witness” a solo exhibition by Ryan Whelan opens May 14th at pt.2 Gallery in downtown Oakland.
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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.
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pt. 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
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pt. 2 Gallery is pleased to announce The Sum of my Surroundings, a solo exhibition of new mixed media paintings by Ryan Whelan. Learn more after the jump.
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pt.2 is pleased to present a group show by Benn Quinn, Caleb Hahne, Lena Gustafson, Liz Hernández, Maria Paz, Paige Valentine, Ryan Whelan, and Sam Spano. Much of the work presented in this show addresses place, home, and belonging through quotidian themes; details of the natural world, food, memory, human interaction, daily tasks, and a search for beauty in uncertain times.
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Part 2 Gallery is proud to present Provisions, an exhibition of paintings from Oakland-based artists Liz Hernández and Ryan Whelan. The show is a meditation on the transformative experience of food, and the married duo examines the disruptive power of providing for those you love, to slow down a busy life and make a meal. Integral to that examination are the places that give us provisions. Learn more after the jump.
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A few weeks back we visited the studio of Oakland based artists Liz Hernandez and Ryan Whelan as they prepare a new series of paintings for "Provisions" opening this November at Part 2 Gallery. We spent time talking about how they impact each others process, where the title of the exhibition stems from and outside inspirations for their new body of works. Learn more after the jump.
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