Violet Hour, 2023, oil on linen, 60 x 60 inches
Dana Oldfather is a Cleveland based painter who has exhibited in galleries and museums including Library Street Collective, Detroit, Zg Gallery, Chicago, Kathryn Markel Fine Art, New York, moCa Cleveland, and The University of Southern Queensland, in Australia. She was awarded the William and Dorothy Yeck Award for Young Painters, two Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards, a Satellite Fund Emergency Relief Grant from SPACES Gallery, The Warhol Foundation, and The Cleveland Foundation, and was a finalist for the Hopper Prize. Oldfather has been published in magazines and journals including Dovetail, Beautiful/Decay, and ArtMaze Magazine. Her paintings can be found in many public and corporate collections in the US including Eaton Corporation, MGM International, Bedrock Detroit, The Cleveland Clinic, and the Progressive Art Collection.
Opening Reception: Friday, April 19th from 5 – 8pm
Abattoir is pleased to introduce new paintings by Cincinnati-based artist Emil Robinson in a soloexhibition of interiors. The work stems from conversations about the history of interior paintings which serve as both records of domestic spaces as well as vessels for psychological profiles.