Talk Like Strangers

pt. 2: Oakland is pleased to present “Talk Like Strangers”, a group exhibition by Daisy Parris, Jesse Littlefield, Nico Stone and Sebastian Helling. London, Maine, New York, Oslo; the geographic distance between each of these artists is vast yet when their work comes together the viewer is invited to take part in what is obviously an intimate conversation between strangers about color, line, texture and form. In each of these works, the viewer almost recognizes a familiar shape or idea yet it’s exact definition alludes us. For one artist, distilling something personal out of the universal helps her to navigate her own anxieties while for another playing with familiar shapes is about the surprise of an unexpected outcome. Whatever the diverse personal intentions of each of the artists, the viewer experiences both the particulars and universals of the work in a way that is distinctly human.