pt.2 Gallery is excited to present an exhibition featuring the work of longtime San Francisco artists and counterculture icons, John de Fazio and Cliff Hengst. Despite their interconnected paths, this marks the first time the artists have shown together, placing the boldly irreverent yet vastly different artistic practices in conversation. Whether it’s Hengst’s text paintings on paper which hold the immediacy of political signage yet retain an open endedness that pushes them into another realm entirely, or de Fazio’s layered kitsch creations that use old forms to create entirely new fantasies, both artists have built full-fledged worlds within their artist practices for decades and it’s to our collective betterment that we are privy to the discussion.