pt. 2 Gallery is excited to present Pet Rock a solo exhibition of new sculptures by Paige Valentine.
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pt. 2 Gallery is pleased to announce The Stories I Tell Myself, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Lenworth McIntosh. For McIntosh’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, he draws on memories of his native Jamaica, exploring the influence of television during his upbringing, as well as heightened energy instigated by other creative forms such as music and dance.
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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 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 excited to announce the representation of Liz Hernández. Learn more after the jump.
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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 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 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: is pleased to present A Song That Kissed The Garden, a solo exhibition of paintings by Cannon Dill. In this new body of work, Dill follows the fictional narrative of a group of poets who stumble upon a vacant mansion in the countryside. Learn more after the jump.
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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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pt. 2: Oakland is pleased to present We Matter, a solo exhibition of photographs by Adrian Octavius Walker. Walker’s work explores Black American beauty traditions among Black men. The intimacy depicted in each photograph erases the possibility of threat often assigned to black men and instead pushes the viewer to see the power of kinship within the Black community. Walker seeks to expand notions of Blackness by challenging the American perception of Black men. Read more 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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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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pt. 2: Oakland is pleased to present Chroma, a solo exhibition of painting and sculpture by Kelly Ording. Through both process and subject, the artist explores the tension between seemingly opposite concepts - intuition and intention, representation and abstraction, surrender and control. Learn more after the jump.
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