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pt. 2 Gallery is happy to current, Ain’t No Canine in Heaven, a solo exhibition that includes new work and sculptures by artist Esteban Raheem Abdul Raheem Samayoa. Curated throughout three viewing rooms, Ain’t No Canine in Heaven represents the artist’s numerous inventive inheritance. Drawing from muralism, road artwork, and conventional Latin American folks artwork, Samayoa has created a set that represents a triad of identities: Pops, Esteban, and Raheem.
Samayoa engages in autobiography and memoir to discover his emotional interiority and the communities which have outlined him. Utilizing drawing, airbrushing, and portray strategies acquired all through his upbringing within the hoods of Sacramento, California, Samayoa creates works that reveal the ability of kinship, familial and road ties, and the function of neighborhood, within the cultivation of an inside self. Samayoa, whose strategies construct on the wealthy custom of California artistry, presents work that evoke a profound tie to the streets and references therein. Within the viewing room Ain’t No Canine in Heaven, Samayoa shows greyscale works on canvas that use highlights to point prominence and luxurious, whereas utilizing shadows to point familiarity, tenderness, and intimacy. These works are a pivotal contribution to the Californian custom of road muralism, as they interact in surrealist compositions to render Black and brown folks partaking in play.
In Samayoa’s viewing room Los Colores de la Tierra, the artist engages along with his Guatemalan heritage to create works that appear to emerge from the earth itself. This second viewing room indicators the artist’s continued engagement with shadow and light-weight to develop narrative strains that contact on tenderness, intimacy, and hazard. Samayoa has reworked his last viewing room, On the Seventh Day, into an interactive set up that includes sculpture, a bookcase, and a Muslim prayer rug, as an ode to his religion. Impressed by the trajectory of Malcolm X, Samayoa has created a set that likewise refuses a singular narrative. Ain’t No Canine in Heaven illustrates the artist’s profound engagement with narrative and storytelling to convey a number of truths inside one single realm. —Dr. Margarita Lila Rosa
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