REIGNITED: Solo Art Exhibition by Ken Oswald - ATLANTA PUBLIC OPENING

REIGNITED — Solo Exhibition by Kenneth “__yak” Oswald

After a decade away from the canvas, REIGNITED marks a deliberate and uncompromising return.

This body of work emerges from absence—not as interruption, but as accumulation. Years spent moving through kitchens, cities, and cultures have been distilled into a visual language that merges collage, graffiti gesture, and raw figuration. The result is a series that feels both archival and immediate—fragments of history, identity, and resistance layered into textured, living surfaces.

Across the exhibition, figures surface through fields of newsprint, markings, and rupture. Materials are not simply applied—they are excavated, rearranged, and recontextualized, creating compositions that sit between construction and collapse. The work carries echoes of cultural memory while refusing to settle into nostalgia, instead positioning itself as a present-tense act of authorship.

REIGNITED is structured as a system:

• Large-scale anchor works