Two bodies, their body hair, features, and proportions cartoonishly and lovingly exaggerated, are tangled in pleasure, one enwrapped in the legs of another.

Jeffrey Cheung: Did you know love is healing?

Cheung’s paintings repel ideas of heteronormativity and stress the idea that representation matters. The ambiguous characters, undefinable by race or gender, are instead typified by the joy that they share, and the light they spark in one another.

Grid of two-dimensional images on paper, using primarily earthy red and black—a bottle of lotion, a sun with a face and closed eyes, the words "LUZY VERDAD," a one-story house, etc—hanging on a white wall.

pt. 2 Gallery: April Group Exhibition

April 10 – April 30, 2021 Appointment only 1523b Webster St. Oakland, CA 94612 info@part2gallery.com

Playful, brightly-colored painting of a multi-limbed, blobby animal sitting on a red stool, performing multiple tasks, such as drilling a nail into a fence and painting a wall white.

Ethan Stuart: Making A Space

Stuart seeks to understand his past, present, and future – encountering nostalgia, time, and beauty along the way.

A mixed media work of two human-ish figures rendered in a quilted blanket, embellished with acrylic paint. The figures' forms are abstracted, wiggly, and made of brightly patterned fabric. Flowers and butterflies surround them.

Snail Shell: Maria Guzmán Capron & Rachel Hayden

The exhibition juxtaposes Hayden’s acrylic paintings with Guzman Capron’s textile wall sculptures to investigate the relationship between physiognomy, emotional state, and the idea of home.

A rough, grey, ceramic and porcelain sculpture of a stylized head. The rectangular face has faint, almond-shaped eyes, two horns on the top of the head, with a deep split between the horns extending down to the nose. The head's mouth is a hole that extends through the center of the sculpture.

Kyle Lypka & Tyler Cross: I Surrender

Some words have surprising origins. Surrender isn’t one of them. Its roots are Old French for “over” (sur-) and “give back, present, yield” (rendre). Blatant pieces of a blatant first principle. Large as these stones, a white flag waving. —gin hart.