pt.2 Gallery presents a group show of new works by Alicia McCarthy, Muzae Sesay, and Martha Shaw. An exhibition of paintings which is also a study on painting, the pieces of McCarthey, Sesay, and Shaw forward an interest in paint as material and its capacity to figure sensation. Here, matter and structure apply to a series of formalist concerns–luster, wash, gesture, hue, and texture—and the subject of depiction—abstraction, landscape, object, interiority, and trace. Together McCarthy, Sesay, and Shaw make a triangular formation allowing the exhibition to find its way between and within each artist’s particular concerns while presenting moments of convergence wherein the audience is left to wayfind.