Ro2 Art

On Juneteenth, we return to a powerful conversation conducted by Ro2 Art via Zoom on August 3, 2023, in conjunction with Lillian Young’s exhibition, The Problem with Archives: A Portrait Is Worth Our Words.

Presented as a companion exhibition to The Runways, the show honored Black elders through portraiture, testimony, and memory. Among those included was Opal Lee, the Grandmother of Juneteenth, whose portrait was on view at Ro2 Art.

In conversation with Young, Ms. Opal reflected on history, education, and her 1,400-mile walk toward Washington, D.C., a symbolic journey honoring the two-and-a-half years it took for news of emancipation to reach enslaved people in Texas.

As she reminds us: “Juneteenth freed the people. The Fourth of July freed the land.”

The message still echoes: history is not distant. It lives in elders, archives, stories, silences, and the responsibility to carry truth forward.

If people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love.

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Ro2 Art is pleased to announce that Tides of Equilibrium by Yuni Lee and Broken Lullabies by Yuliya Lanina have been extended through June 20.

Through vibrant abstraction and layered visual systems, Lee's paintings examine the intersection of nature and technology. Lanina's immersive installation and paintings create a dreamlike world of allegory, vulnerability, and transformation. Together, the exhibitions offer two distinct yet compelling perspectives on contemporary experience.

We invite you to take advantage of the extra time to experience these remarkable bodies of work at Ro2 Art.

Also Announcing....

🔜 Emergent-Z! Opening next Saturday, June 27 - bringing together artists of Generation Z whose work reflects a world shaped by technology, a pandemic, social change, and evolving ideas of identity.

📍 Ro2 Art | 2606 Bataan Street, Dallas

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The paintings of ‘Broken Lullabies’ by Yuliya Lanina are populated by remixed, distorted and hybrid figures that are part human, part object, and part plant. The exhibition moves between humor and discomfort, fantasy and psychological reality as watchful flowers and fragmented bodies create a dreamlike world shaped by the emotional logic of memory and the inner child. Rather than functioning as literal narratives, the works operate as emotional and psychological states, reflecting the fragmented and shifting ways we carry experiences within ourselves.

'Broken Lullabies' now on view through June 13.
📍 Ro2 Art– 2606 Bataan Street, Dallas

Upcoming: Artist Talk with Yuliya Lanina, June 4 6PM

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Beauty, collapse, theater, memory.

In Broken Lullabies, Yuliya Lanina creates figures that exist somewhere between seduction and survival – grotesque, humorous, vulnerable, and strangely triumphant all at once. Skulls grin. Bodies fracture. Elegance persists anyway.

These paintings do not hide their wounds. They dance with them.

🎭 Broken Lullabies
📍 Ro2 Art – Dallas
🗓️ On view through June 13

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