For over a decade, Christopher Robin Duncan has been capturing, cutting, sewing, and ensembling light, resulting in a body of work that intersects painting and photography, collage and sculpture, the visible and the audible.
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pt. 2 Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of Oakland-based artist Lenworth Mcintosh.
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pt. 2 Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of Yétundé Olagbaju.
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pt. 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.
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pt. 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.
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pt. 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.
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pt. 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.
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pt. 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.
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pt. 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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pt. 2 Gallery is pleased to announce Seven Translations for Twilight, an exhibition of new works by Lilah Rose and Jean Nagai. This is Rose and Nagai’s first collaborative exhibition at pt. 2 Gallery.
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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 Gallery is pleased to present A Modern Guilt, a solo exhibition by Oakland based sculptor Meryl Pataky. In her second solo exhibition with the gallery, Pataky works predominantly with neon to consider the simultaneous decay of the natural world, and the origins and implications of society’s impact of this decay.
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pt. 2 Gallery is pleased to present I Surrender a solo exhibition of new works in ceramic and cast aluminum by the artist duo Kyle Lypka and Tyler Cross. Learn more after the jump.
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Pt. 2 Gallery is pleased to present The Purest Air I’ve Ever Known, a solo exhibition of paintings and drawings by Oakland based artist Muzae Sesay. The exhibition continues Sesay’s sociological impression of a rapidly changing Oakland, a transition marked by stunted growth and unnatural decay.
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Pt. 2 Gallery is pleased to present Freetown Veranda, a solo exhibition of paintings and drawings by Oakland based artist Muzae Sesay. In this new body of work, Sesay explores his Sierra Leonean heritage, a homeland the artist has yet to visit in person.
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pt.2 Gallery is proud to announce, “The website show - an honest approach to an imaginary show” by Jordy Kerwick. This body of work challenges the idea of perception, finding beauty in varied interpretations. While we are often urged to cast aside our biases when approaching a piece of artwork, individual prejudices serve as vital components to this series. Learn more after the jump.
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Lenworth “Joonbug” McIntosh (b. 1987 Jamaica, West Indies) is a visual artist, photographer, illustrator and designer based in Oakland, CA by way of Dallas, TX. His quirky wit, warmth, and diversity of pursuits give his work vibrant soul while his approach is indirect; he portrays things as they are without revealing all of the answers. McIntosh received his MFA in Fashion Merchandise from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco CA and has exhibited throughout the western United States.
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pt. 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!
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pt. 2: Oakland is pleased to present Self Reliance, a solo exhibition by Lenworth “Joonbug” McIntosh. Internal dialogue can lead us to grow or create cognitive dissonance. What we believe to be wrong can be right and vice versa. The process of creation is just as important as the thing created. Unlearning and relearning. Acceptance. A fascination with something that seems new, but really isn’t. Read more after the jump.
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