Opening reception: Saturday, March 14th, 2020 12-10 p.m.
Showing Through: Friday, April 3, 2020
pt. 2: Oakland is pleased to present Elements Of…, a group exhibition by Alanna Fields, Angela Hennessy, Anthony Akinbola, and Christopher Martin, curated by Adrian Octavius Walker. The works in this show contend with universal experiences – life, death, love, belonging – mediated through Blackness; as a personal and lived experience, as a part of an ancestral lineage, and as a historical construction. Hennessy fuses European and African mourning rituals using hair and Akinbola creates paintings with durags to make materials of beauty objects that are consistently used as ammo in respectability politics. Mining historical imagery to reveal what had been previously suppressed, Fields combines archival photographs and wax to simulate the negotiation between queer legibility and masking while Martin subverts traditional tattoo flash images to simultaneously satirize and interrogate slavery, segregation, and white supremacy. By showing this group exhibition adjacent to his solo show, Walker demonstrates the importance of participating in a community of artists and making space for others who are also exploring the multiplicity of Blackness and the intersection of multiple identities.
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 located near the 19th Street BART station 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.
