Press Release - "At and Past" Group Exhibition
Olivia Nevins-Carbins
”Cutty Flower”
Oil Pastel, Oil Paint, Graphite, Acrylic on Wood Panel
34 x 26 Inches
2020
pt.2: Oakland
At and Past
John Gnorski
JP McNicholas
Olivia Nevins-Carbins
Sylvia Fragoso
Opening reception: Saturday, February 15th, 2020 12-10 p.m.
Artist Talk - February 15th, 4pm
Showing Through: Friday, March 6th, 2020
1523b Webster St.
Oakland, CA 94612
info@part2gallery.com
pt. 2: Oakland is pleased to present “At and Past”, a group exhibition by John Gnorski, JP McNicholas, Olivia Nevins-Carbins, and Sylvia Fragoso. All of the pieces in the show have some kind of lattice work, whether literal in Olivia Nevins-Carbins gates or visual in the case of JP McNicholas’ trees and bushes. John Gnorski’s sculptures create a similar latticework effect and Sylvia Fragoso’s sculptures are lattice-like in construction as well as being highly religious which brings to mind the screen you'd find in a confessional. Each of these works provide the experience of simultaneously looking at something and past it.
John Gnorski
”Apparition No.1”
Spray Paint, Flashe, Pastel, Grease Pencil on Wood
28 x 16 x 18 Inches
2020
John Gnorski (b. 1983, Virginia )
Based in Oakland, CA, John Gnorski works in sculpture, drawing, painting, printmaking, installation, sound, and performance. His work across all media explores themes of myth, folklore, speculative pasts and futures, and the natural world. Gnorski received his BA from Bard College. He is half of the performance duo EARTH BABIES (with Katie Bernstein) making music, texts, and installations that shine a light on unseen worlds in hope of a more universally harmonious future. The sculptures in this show are based on a drawing practice that embraces chance. “Studies” are made using ink blots, doodles, and Automatic Drawing and these are collaged, distorted, re-drawn, and transferred to wood which is then cut, carved, painted, perforated, and abraded. Though these pieces are realized in a static medium they are in a constant state of becoming. They are not quite figurative and not entirely abstract, arrested momentarily in their metamorphosis. Gnorski lives and works in Oakland, CA.
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Education
2005 BFA Bard College
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Like A Train In The Sky, Stumptown, Portland, OR
2018 Marble Tongue, Diamond Of My Heart, Lowell, Portland, OR
2017 The Beetle Sings In The Reeds, Nationale, Portland, OR
2016 I Heard The Song And Now I Can’t Forget, Lowell, Portland, OR
2015 Take A Look At Loneliness, Lowell, Portland, OR
2014 Home Of The Double Headed Eagle, Stumptown, Portland, OR
Group Exhibitions
2020 At And Past, pt. 2: Gallery, Oakland, CA
2019 Spaceness 2019, Seaview, WA
2018 Beyond Control, Peace Sign Gallery, Portland, OR
2018 Spaceness 2018, Seaview, WA
2018 Live To Tape Artist Television Festival, Open Signal, Portland, OR
2017 Spaceness 2017, Seaview, WA
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2019 Stumptown Artist Fellowship
2015 Signal Fire Residency, Coronado National Forest, AZ
JP McNicholas
”Everybody #1”
Acrylic, Charcoal, Oil Pastel on Paper.
24.5 x 24.5 Inches
Framed by Artist
2020
JP McNicholas (b. 1990, Santa Cruz, CA) is an Oakland based multidisciplinary artist, focusing primarily on drawing and painting. He has an educational background in functional ceramics and printmaking and his current practice includes zine making and other printed matter. His work has been exhibited throughout the Bay Area. The drawings in this show interpret and blend the known world; romance and loneliness, with fictional events pulled from the artist’s dream life, as a way to navigate the passing of time. “In 2017 I experienced a recurring dream, taking place during my childhood years playing little league baseball. In the dream my teammates and I leave the game to explore the surrounding forested area of “Field 1”, under the night sky. A cosmic experience ensues between the players and the night. I have since expanded this narrative and environment, to further render a world in which this event exists.”
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Solo Exhibitions
2016 Helicopter, Turpentine Gallery, Oakland, CA
Group Exhibitions
2020 At and Past, pt. 2: Gallery, Oakland, CA
2019 Sincere Forms, Hit Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Naked Lake, Massman Gallery, Oakland, CA
2019 GIFC Oakland, pt. 2: Gallery, Oakland CA
2019 August Group Exhibition, pt. 2: Gallery, Oakland, CA
2019 Standing in the Doorway, Massman Gallery, Oakland, CA
2017 No Human Being Is Illegal, Naming Gallery, Oakland CA
2017 Shutter Speed, Harvey Milk Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
2016 Winter Group Exhibition, Athen B. Gallery, Oakland CA
2016 The Last Supper, Turpentine Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015 Get Small 3, Session Space, Oakland, CA
2015 Afternoons, Athen B. Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015 Die-O-Rama, Turpentine Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015 Sulfur Cinema “Who Makes Short Shorts”, Turpentine Gallery, Oakland, CA
Olivia Nevins-Carbins
”1839”
Oil Pastel, Oil Paint, Graphite, Acrylic on Wood Panel
24 x 18 Inches
2020
Olivia Nevins-Carbins (b. 1996, San Francisco, CA ) was born and raised in San Francisco and Oakland. Her work has an overarching theme of memory, combining fragments from the past to make sense of present emotions. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute and was awarded the Herb Alpert Emerging Young Artist Scholarship in 2012. In her current series Nevins-Carbins observes the architectural landscape of San Francisco, specifically the iron and aluminum decorative scroll gates and motifs of Victorian and Edwardian-era houses by abstracting and weaving them into her own personal narratives concerning safety, self-preservation, the preservation of the memory of a city, isolation, and fantasy. “I am interested in these gates because they’re integral to the San Francisco landscape and the image of them has always been present in my memory of growing up in San Francisco. I aimed to integrate colors that frequently appear in the public parks in San Francisco, specifically the purples and greens, from the eucalyptus trees in the Panhandle, to the orange of the nasturtiums popping up underneath a fence, to the fog at night coating the streetlights over Alamo square. I hope to emphasize their likeness to nature by injecting these motifs into an environment with abstracted forms that hold a close resemblance to things growing in gardens, front yards, and patches of grass on the sidewalk.” Nevins-Carbins lives and works in San Francisco.
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Education
2016-2019 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2008-2014 Oakland School for the Arts, Oakland, CA
2013 California College of the Arts Pre-College Program, Oakland, CA
2012 California State Summer School for the Arts, Sacramento, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Untitled, VAMP Art • Music • Consignment, Oakland, CA
2014 Albumen, E. M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore, Oakland, CA
2014 Untitled, Libros Libres Oakland, Tilde, Oakland, CA
Group Exhibitions
2020 At and Past, pt. 2: Gallery, Oakland, CA
2019 PRIMARY WRLD, Swim Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 HOLDING, Delaplane Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Narratives, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 FRESH HEX, Naming Gallery, Oakland, CA
2016 E.M. Wolfman 2 Year Anniversary Art Show Event Party, Oakland, CA
2016 CALL IT HOME: an all women and non-binary group show, curated by Olivia Nevins-Carbins, Naming Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015 Allied Forces Press & Fuzzoscope presents: "BYOABC", Book & Job Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 SPRINGBREAK 4 EVER, Perch Coffee, Oakland, CA
2015 The ART PARTY Kollective Presents: 2BNamed, A 2 Day Art & Music Showcase, Naming Gallery, Oakland, CA
2014 Spring Show, White Box Gallery, Oakland, CA
2014 Alphabet Soup, Guerilla Cafe, Berkeley, CA
Curatorial
2016 CALL IT HOME: an all women and non-binary group show, curated by Olivia Nevins-Carbins, Naming Gallery, Oakland, CA
Awards
2012 Herb Alpert Emerging Young Artist Scholarship
Sylvia Fragoso
”Untitled”
Glazed Ceramics
15 x 7 x 6 Inches
2016
Sylvia Fragoso (b. 1962, San Pablo, CA)
The ceramics and drawings of Sylvia Fragoso exude a vitality, sincerity and reverence that reflect the deep care that went into their creation, and the many years that the artist has single-mindedly dedicated to her craft. Sylvia started making art in her early twenties after joining NIAD Art Center (Nurturing Independence Through Artistic Development). Over the last thirty years she has produced hundreds of clay sculptures; spiritually-inspired monuments that possess a humble beauty and strange power, mysterious clusters with crucifixes atop them that testify to her devout Catholicism, and crumbling towers, some with spiky projections jutting out from their thickly glazed exteriors. Likewise, her drawings are striking in their originality and conviction, evincing a brilliant and intuitive grasp of color and design. These mesmerizing abstractions and swirling striations pulsate with color and energy. Sylvia has exhibited internationally and her work is included in many private collections.
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Select Group Exhibitions
2019 Pink Moon, River Walk, Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, CA
2019 Have/Hold, organized by Julia Schwartz, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
2019 CE x CG X NIAD, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA
2019 Butterfly, Sugar, organized by Bonanza, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
2019 Hailing From Parts Unknown, organized By Curtis Turner, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
2019 Pots, Adams And Ollman, Portland, OR
2019 Redefining Contemporary Art , organized by Courtney Eldridge, Depot, Steamboat Springs, CO
2019 Where They Want To Go, organized by Erin McCluskey Wheeler, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
2018 It’s Complicated, organized by Kathleen King, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
2018 The Genre Leaps, organized by Margaret Tedesco, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
2018 Cyrano, organized By Em Kettner, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
2018 Woven, Mixed, Tied, and Attached: Fiber As Message, organized By Ramekon O’Arwisters, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
2018 Quest: A Collection, organized by Rhea Fontaine, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
2018 Indeterminate Space, organized by Anthony Piñata, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
2017 The Witnesses, organized by Cliff Hengst and Scott Hewicker, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
2017 Affinity, organized by Tim Buckwalter, Museum of Northern California Art, Chico, CA
2017 I Heart TL , organized by David Pagel, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2017 Spring/ Summer Exhibition, organized by Arianne Gelardin, PARLOR, San Francisco, CA
2016 Curious Weave, organized by Ramekon O’Arwisters, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
2016 Cities In Mind, organized by Kathleen King, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
2016 Celebrating A Vision: Art & Disability, San Francisco International Airport Terminal Three, South San Francisco, CA
2016 Hold Onto Your Structures : The Ceramics of Sylvia Fragoso, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
2015 Absence of Deliberate Silence, organized by Lacey Haslam, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
2015 Telling It Slant, organized by Courtney Eldridge, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
2015 Assemble: A NIAD Art Center Project With Nina Zurier, organized by Nina Zurier, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
2015 Making Friends, organized by John Casey, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
2014 Visions et Créations Dissidents, Musée de la Création Franche, Bègles, France
Recent Press
2017 Nat. Brut: I, Too, Like Purple
2015 Savant Garde: Wisdom Beyond Words: The Art of Sylvia Fragoso (July)
2015 Making Handmade Books Blog: Telling It Slant (July)
pt. 2: is a contemporary art gallery that opened its Oakland location in March of 2018 and its Los Angeles location in October of 2019. We feature monthly exhibitions by emerging and mid-career artists. pt. 2: Oakland is located at 1523 b Webster Street and has open gallery hours Thursday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Opening receptions at pt.2: are always free and open to the public. To receive a preview of the exhibition please contact info@part2gallery.com