A press release for “Life Paintings” a solo exhibition by Brett Flaningan opening at pt.2 Gallery on January 7, 2023.
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pt. 2 Gallery is pleased to present Describing Sirius, a solo exhibition on new paintings by Oakland-based artist JP McNicholas.
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pt. 2 Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in FOG Design+Art with a booth of new work by Kelly Ording, Liz Hernández, María Paz, Muzae Sesay, and Soumya Netrabile.
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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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pt. 2 Gallery is pleased to present “Strange Wildflowers” a solo exhibition featuring a new series of paintings created over the last year by Los Angeles-based artist Cannon Dill.
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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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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 Making a Space, a solo exhibition of new work by the Frenchtown, New Jersey-based painter Ethan Stuart. Stuart’s paintings detail a simultaneous narrative and emotional reaction to the narrative.
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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 excited to announce the representation of Liz Hernández. Learn more after the jump.
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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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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 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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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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Often beginning with photos of discarded furniture she’s encountered on the street, Lonsdale uses her brush to deconstruct and reshape the photographed images into anthropomorphic paintings of genderless human-like forms in domestic settings or semi-erotically engaged. Using bright yet gentle colors in oil paint and aerosol, Lonsdale explores gender roles and sexuality, employing domestic context and furniture both as metaphor and as literal extensions of the figures. Learn more about Tahnee in the interview after the jump.
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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. Learn more after the jump!
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Starting with stories by, of, and for family members, Saif Azzuz (b. 1987) constructs spaces utilizing colorful ink and acrylic paint on tapestry-like canvas imbuing the work with the washy luminosity and gentle disquiet of dreams. Through self-defined symbolism communicating ideas such as movement, energy and time, Azzuz works to acknowledge and validate generational trauma, resilience, land, and story. Learn more about Saif in the interview after the jump.
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