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Press Release - 1523

pt. 2 is proud to present an exhibition centering around figuration featuring new work by Molly Bounds, Liz Hernández, Lynnea Holland Weiss, Wardell McNeal, Cinque Mubarak, Héctor Muñoz-Guzmán, Landon Pointer, Lenworth McIntosh, Hana Ward and Woodrow White.

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Press Release - "Into the Landscape" by Sune Christiansen

pt. 2 Gallery is pleased to present Into the Landscape, a solo exhibition of new paintings by the Danish painter Sune Christiansen. In Christiansen’s first exhibition with the gallery, he mediates on the abstractions and figurations that develop from intuitive explorations in color and composition.

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Press Release - Nikichyu ‘ok’w ‘w-ewolek’ ”Everything has a name” by Saif Senussi Azzuz

pt. 2 Gallery is pleased to present Nikichyu ‘ok’w ‘w-ewolek’ ”Everything has a name”, a solo exhibition by Saif Azzuz.

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Press Release - "Cielo's Gate #42" by Isaac Vazquez Avila

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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Press Release - "I Wake To Sleep" by Soumya Netrabile

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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Press Release - "Talismán" by Liz Hernández

pt. 2 Gallery is pleased to present Talisman, a solo exhibition of new sculpture and painting by the Oakland based artist Elizabeth Hernandez. For her second solo exhibition with Pt. 2 Gallery, Hernandez incorporates ceramics and embossed aluminum into her oeuvre, using these media to explore the religious, familial, and spiritual ties in her upbringing in Mexico.

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Press Release - "Seven Translations For Twilight" by Jean Nagai & Lilah Rose

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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Press Release - "A Modern Guilt" by Meryl Pataky

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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Press Release - "The Purest Air I've Ever Known" by Muzae Sesay

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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Press Release - "Freetown Veranda" by Muzae Sesay

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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Interview - Lenworth "Joonbug" McIntosh

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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