Upcoming Exhibitions

Press Release

SUMMER SUN ☀️

This summer is the perfect opportunity to spring the gallery backroom into action! Out comes the treasures from the past (almost) two years in Los Angeles. I’m looking forward to exhibiting Sarah Amos, Ramekon O’Arwisters, Jamie Vasta, Lien Truong, Reyah, Felicita Norris, Cornelia Schulz, to name just a few, as we peddle our way toward Fall ’24.

But, before any art dons the walls – the whole gallery gets a paint job, no more patchwork quilt walls, although I quite like patchwork anything!!

Opening dates of the summer exhibition will be June something or other… stay tuned as we brush our way toward the exhibition!!

Press Release

SHARON BARNES

DEMETRI BROXTON

Exhibition Dates: September 14 – October 19, 2024
Reception: Saturday, September 14th from 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Events: TBA

It’s with great pleasure that PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY announces two concurrent one-person exhibitions with Los Angeles painter Sharon Barnes and Oakland multidisciplinary artist Demetri Broxton. Both artists are steeped in conceptual practices, using collage and nontraditional materials to celebrate and honor the persistence of Black excellence.

Abstraction allows me to express complexities and emotive properties that are non-linear, as I think about toughness, resilience, and the capacity to re-invent. It’s about improvisation as both a Black survival strategy and a cultural expression. Recurring visual motifs in my work include margins, borders, and hierarchies that sublimate into radical beauty and freedom — an insistence to be beautiful and free in spite of everything and because of everything.

-–Sharon Barnes

My new body of work centers upon ancestors whose names and stories I don’t fully know. Most of them are soldiers who served in WWI. They fought to support a country that would continue to deny them full citizenship and equal rights.

-– Demetri Broxton