Art Fairs

Eleanor Conover

December 4th–7th, 2024

Abattoir Gallery is pleased to participate in NADA Miami with a presentation of new paintings by Eleanor Conover. Conover's work engages with the physical and material conditions of painting as a metaphor for environmental time and space. Working within a particular structure of her own making—a convex wooden stretcher-- she explores the territory between rectangular and shaped surfaces.

Audra Skuodas

September 5th–8th, 2024

Cristin Tierney Gallery and Abattoir Gallery are pleased to participate in Independent 20th Century with a special joint presentation of rarely seen paintings and drawings from the estate of Audra Skuodas (1940-2019). Independent 20th Century opens with an invite-only preview day on Thursday, September 5th, and continues through Sunday, September 8th.

Sarah Kabot & Katie Butler

April 11th–14th, 2024

Abattoir Gallery presents work by two artists who explore the recent fractured state of American civil society in narrative paintings and works on paper. Sarah Kabot and Katie Butler apply collage, drawing, and painting to treat pressing issues—the geopolitical results of climate change to kitchen table topics of inequalities and the inherently fallible nature of print journalism to accurately report on social and political systems.

Eleanor Anderson & Michelle Grabner

February 8th–11th, 2024

Textiles are the common denominator of this presentation. Not just the use of fabric and materials, but the intellectual understanding of textiles' importance in the domestic sphere (Grabner), the understanding of textile as labor--both individual craft and machine-produced (Anderson and Grabner)--and the ways in which textiles may transcend the workaday to other realms.

Dominic Palarchio, Lauren Yeager and Palli Davis

December 5th–9th, 2023

Abattoir presents a booth of 3 midwestern artists who use found materials from their local landscapes. Dominic Palarchio, Lauren Yeager and Palli Davene Davis are sculptors foremost, with different approaches in their practices. However, they maintain an intentional use of undisguised found materials. The grouping of work in this booth underscores the ongoing richness of the Midwest urban and rural space, while examining the relationship of contemporary practices on a broader scale. 

Audra Skuodas and Michelle Grabner 

April 14th–16th, 2023

Both artists, working in the Midwest, have forged distinctive oeuvres encompassing abstraction and domestic craft. The presentation focuses on how each employs sewing and textiles as material, gesture, and pattern in painting, sculpture, and artist’s books. Though representing different backgrounds and generations, Grabner and Skuodas hold in common the urge to find depth and permanence in the humble languages of household materials and activities.