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Press Release - "Did you know love is healing?" by Jeffrey Cheung

pt. 2 Gallery is pleased to announce Did you know love is healing?, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Oakland-based artist Jeffrey Cheung. Presenting a new series of paintings and drawings created over the last year, this will be Cheung’s first exhibition with the gallery.

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Press Release - On Becoming a Star... by Yétúndé Olagbaju

pt 2. Gallery is pleased to present On Becoming a Star..., a solo exhibition by Yétúndé Olagbaju (they/them). For Olagbaju’s first solo show with the gallery, the artist presents paintings, sculptures, drawings, and video that explore their ongoing relationship to Mammy, the pair’s forceable approximation, and the liminal space the two occupy.

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Press Release - "The Stories I Tell Myself" by Lenworth McIntosh

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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Press Release - A solo exhibition by John Martin

pt. 2 Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by John Martin. Martin is known for his vibrant and whimsical interpretations of vehicles and tools, which are often anthropomorphized to a degree in which personality outweighs functionality.

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Press Release - Holding by Lena Gustafson, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, and Maria Paz

Pt. 2 Gallery is pleased to present Holding, an exhibition of new work by Lena Gustafson, Maria Paz, and Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo. The mixed media exhibition brings together Gustafsonʼs paintings on canvas and paper, Pazʼs painted ceramics and new charcoal drawings, and Branfman-Verissimoʼs works on mylar and site-specific installations.

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Press Release - Pathways by Olivia Nevins-Carbins

pt. 2 Gallery is pleased to announce Pathways, a solo exhibition of new paintings by the San Francisco based artist Olivia Nevins-Carbins. Inspired by the arte nouveau forms that grace the gates of San Francisco’s Victorian houses, Nevins-Carbins pays homage to the history and architectural landscape of native city, telling stories of those who inhabit such houses along the way.

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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 - Represented group exhibition

pt. 2 Gallery is pleased to announce our Represented Group Exhibition featuring new works by the fifteen artists represented by the Oakland-based gallery. While the represented artists and their exhibited works vary greatly in terms of media, scale, and concept, the artists themselves are related thanks to the community that brings them together.

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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 - "A Series of Meditations on the Complexities of Life" by Wardell McNeal

pt. 2 Gallery is pleased to present A Series of Meditations on the Complexities of Life, a solo exhibition of new work by Wardell McNeal. In McNeal’s first exhibition with the gallery, the painter expands his distinctive form of stylized figurative painting. The paintings exhibited represent a journey in the artist’s spiritual growth through knowledge and discovery and in formal properties of texture, color and perspective.

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