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Abattoir Gallery, Hildebrandt Building 3619 Walton Avenue, Cleveland, OH (2025)

02/14/2025

Installation views from our group show, New Voices, up now through March 8th.

Escape the cold and visit the gallery today and tomorrow 12 - 5pm to see new work with by four talented artists in our region.

images: Field Studio Photography

02/06/2025

Discover the evocative work of Thiang Uk in our group show New Voices.

Uk attended the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2023 and received his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.

Uk's works explore emotional and spiritual landscapes rooted in migration, ancestral animism, and the complexities of diasporic experiences. These landscapes—both fleeting and opaque—reflect the tensions of non-belonging and belonging, remembrance and spiritual longing.

image: Thiang Uk, Ray, 2024, oil on panel, 10 x 8 inches

01/28/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening of New Voices, our first show of 2025!

The show brings together a group of artists using materiality in innovative ways across an exciting array of mediums to tap into otherworldly realms.

The show will be on view through March. Email us to make an appointment or visit the gallery during open hours: Fridays and Saturdays 12 - 5pm.

images:
1. Jen P. Harris, Mt. San Angelo, 2024, acrylic paint, cotton yarn, panel, hardware, painted wood frame, 25.5 x 19.5 x 1.5 inches. Photo

2. Thiang Uk, Ray, 2024, oil on panel 10 x 8 inches

3. Julia Callis, Non element, of pathos (violets in bloom), 2024, acrylic on panel, 24.25 x 32.5 inches

4. Claudia Peña Salinas, Tlalocan Expanded Field-Medicine, 2022, toner transfer and encaustic on wood panel, 60 x 32 inches.

01/22/2025

Thiang Uk immigrated with his family to the United States from Myanmar as a child and resides in Baltimore. Personal history remains central to his painting, “to have a balance of beauty, spirituality, but also, to make sure that struggle is a part of my work.” Thiang Uk’s oil paintings, ranging in size from intimate to vast, place the viewer in magical spaces, from closely viewed landscapes to atmospheric celestial horizons. There is a non-specific extra-temporality in the work that encourages meditation and reflection.

Uk holds a BFA from Hunter College in New York and an MFA from MICA in Baltimore, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture summer residency in 2023. He will be featured in a solo show at BUREAU gallery in New York in the spring, with other announcements coming soon. This is his first show with Abattoir.

Uk's paintings will be on view in New Voices, opening this Friday.

image: Thiang Uk, The reflections of sunset/sunrise/fire, 2022, oil on canvas, 15 x 19 inches

01/21/2025

Claudia Peña Salinas' sculpture and painting will be on view in New Voices, opening Friday, January 24th, 6-8pm.

Peña Salinas’ work is grounded in conceptual research, moving between sculpture, printmaking, and installation in projects based in geological and economic histories of her native Mexico. The work on view in the show addresses the artist’s search for the original site of the ancient Tlaloc monolith, the male Aztec god of rain and water. The monolith is currently displayed at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.

As she transfers work from the landscape, where many projects begin, into the gallery space, Peña Salinas draws on strategies of 1960s and ‘70s land artists such as Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt, or the Center for Land Use Interpretation to ask viewers to be empowered to question, “who writes history?”

Peña Salinas holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Hunter College, New York. She has held residencies in Europe and Mexico, and has exhibited extensively in galleries and museums throughout the US, Puerto Rico, and Mexico. Her work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL. Recent solo shows include the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL (2024), Galerie Pelaires, Mallorca, Spain, (2023), the ASU Museum, Tempe AZ (2019). She is represented by Embajada Gallery, Puerto Rico/NY. This is her first show with Abattoir.

image: Claudia Peña Salinas, Ali, 2021, brass, dyed cotton thread, and acrylic, 70 5/8 x 23 1/2 inches

01/20/2025

A selection of Jen P. Harris' loom paintings will be featured in our first exhibition of 2025, which opens this Friday, January 24th, with a reception from 6-8pm.

Harris has developed a wide range of paintings based on weaving initially created at Praxis Fiber Workshop here in Cleveland. Harris refers to their newest works as loom-paintings, since the painting itself functions as a loom. In these, yarn is vertically stretched over painted panels, creating a warp.

A crucial aspect of these works relates to earlier two-dimensional paintings and drawings which plumb ideas of visual confusion, masking, and layering, obscuring the human forms—jesters and commedia dell’arte figures—stand ins for the artist?

Harris holds a BFA from Yale University and MFA from Queens College (CUNY). They have received several grants, artist residency opportunities, and exhibited extensively throughout the United States. Most recently, they have exhibited in “Queer Histories” at Zygote Press (with the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland, “Painting Deconstructed” curated by Leeza Meskin at Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY, and “Under this Mask, another mask” curated by Sam Adams at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Harris recently opened a solo project at the Kent State University Museum, currently on view. They exhibited with Abattoir in “On Intimacy” (2024).

image: Jen P. Harris, Mt. San Angelo, 2024, acrylic paint, cotton yarn, panel, hardware, painted wood frame, 25.5 x 19.5 x 1.5 inches

01/15/2025

Detroit native Julia Callis is one of the artists featured in our first exhibition of 2025. The show opens Friday, January 24th, with a reception from 6 - 8pm.

Her paintings conjure mythical landscapes that meld figures from medieval manuscripts, fairytales, and merry-go-rounds with an impromptu impression of the vastness of contemporary Detroit. The world of her paintings is filled with charming non sequiturs and mystery. While her work is narrative, their subjects remain just out of reach. Floating against faded rose and greens we find escaped turkeys, singing radishes, and truncated merry go round horses bobbing in and out of the frame.

image: Julia Callis, Baffled, yes, baffled, by bovine (Here, enter two sheep), 2024
acrylic and oil on panel, 26 x 34.35 inches

12/14/2024

The gallery is closed today due to ongoing issues with the heating. Sincere apologies to anyone who planned to visit the gallery for the closing weekend of Shawn Powell: Triangle, Circle, Square.

The gallery will reopen for our 2025 programming in late January.

Image: Shawn Powell, Black, Violet, and Blue Stripes on a Blue Background, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 27 11/16 x 27 11/16 x 27 11/16 inches

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12/13/2024

Audra Skuodas’ solo exhibition was recently featured in

“Despite a lifetime of relative obscurity, Skuodas’ work resonates with profound depth and a distinctive voice that challenges conventional boundaries of perception and form. Perpetually experimenting with materials, she explored beads, sequins, and vibrant fabrics, creating rigid and soft sculptures alongside quilts, books, and jewelry. Her paintings and drawings—initially aligned with Surrealism before transitioning to abstraction starting in the 1980s—are where she gained renown the most.”

Click the link in bio to read the full article.

📸: Adam Reich

12/11/2024

Final chance to see Shawn Powell's solo show "Triangle, Circle, Square.”

The gallery is open Friday and Saturday 12 - 5pm this week. See the show during open hours or email us to make an appointment.

From the press release, "Playfully quoting a wide range of contemporary painters, the works are often humorous and a bit absurd. This painted world, inhabited by a cast of ordinary things, draws the viewer into the experience of conceptual or reductive abstraction, distilled consideration of pure color, shape, line, composition, and pattern."

Shawn Powell has presented solo exhibitions at 106 Green, Brooklyn, NY; Chapter NY, New York, NY; Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH; Marrow Gallery, San Francisco, CA; and at The Journal Gallery, New York, NY. His work has been included in group exhibitions and presentations at venues such as the Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI; The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA; NADA Miami, and NADA New York.

Click the link in our bio to learn more.

image: Shawn Powell, Four Yellow Circles on a Gray Background, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 inches

photo: Field Studio Photography

12/07/2024

The gallery is closed today due to unforeseen heating issues. Make an appointment to see Shawn Powell: Triangle, Circle, Square or visit us next Friday and Saturday, 12-5pm.

Image: Shawn Powell, Pink Spiral on a Green Background, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 inches.

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12/07/2024

Today is the final day of NADA Miami 2024. Visit us at Booth E209 to see Eleanor Conover's new paintings.

Thanks to everyone who has visited and supported the work so far. There is more to come, so stay tuned!

image: Eleanor Conover, Open Book, 2024, dye, bleach, and oil on sewn linen with beveled and bowed pine, 23 x 16.5 x 2 inches

New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA)

12/06/2024

NADA Miami continues! We’re thrilled to share that our solo booth of new paintings by is featured in .official as a standout among this year’s presentations.

Visit us at Booth E209 today and tomorrow.

Public Hours: December 3, 4–7pm, December 4 - 6, 11am–7pm, December 7, 11am–5pm

12/05/2024

NADA Miami 2024 is in full swing. Visit us at booth E209 for our solo booth of Eleanor Conover's evocative shaped canvases.

Having recently relocated to Maine, Conover has brought a new physicality to her paintings, generated by the immediacy of the rural landscape. The planar surface of the painting at at times contains sewn pockets cradling stones from quarries, adding breadth, depth and weight to the canvas support. While she is attuned to historical painting languages of Helen Frankenthaler, Arthur Dove, Georgia O’Keeffe–for Conover they represent a bridge onto aperceptual continuum.

pictured: Eleanor Conover, Granite and Rainbows, 2024, dye, acrylic, oil, and graphite on sewn linen with marble, bowed white oak, and beveled pine, 50.5 x 34 x 2.5 inches

photo credit: Adam Reich

New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA)

11/29/2024

Abattoir is closed today, but the gallery will be open 12 - 5pm Saturday for Holidays at the The Hildebrandt Building.

Visit the gallery for cookies, cider, and see Shawn Powell's show.

image: Shawn Powell, Orange and Tan Squares on a Blue Background, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 inches

photo credit: Field Studio Photography

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