Season 2026: Jen P. Harris and Dominic Palarchio
Season Fair
September 11 - 13, 2026
at the Shepherd
1265 Parkview St
Detroit, MI 48214
Fair Hours
Friday, September 11
VIP Preview
Saturday, September 12 and Sunday, September 13
11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Abattoir Gallery is excited to introduce our program to Detroit audiences at the Season fair this September. Our presentation includes work by two artists with strong Midwest ties who have both attracted support and attention.
Dominic Palarchio was born and raised in the Detroit region. He took his BFA at the College of Creative Studies and his MFA in Sculpture at Cranbrook Academy of Art. He lives and works in New York. Palarchio’s sculpture emerges from both conceptual strategies and a deep-rooted engagement with the industrial landscape of Detroit. Central to his latest body of work is petroleum coke, the dense carbon fuel derived from coal. Using this material, Palarchio builds table top sculptures projecting geological scale and a delicacy delineated by metallic jewelry boxes which brace the vertical carbon stacks. The work highlights the physical substance that underpinned the rise of cities like Detroit while reimagining it as a vehicle for formal and conceptual inquiry.
Jen P. Harris, based in Cleveland, has developed a distinctive body of "loom-paintings" that dissolve conventional boundaries between painting and weaving. Beginning with a painted canvas that is subsequently transformed into a functioning loom, Harris weaves on the surface, creating works in which painted and woven elements exist in dialogue. The resulting compositions engage the histories of textile practice, painting, and drawing while emphasizing fluidity over fixed categories, inviting viewers to reconsider the relationship between image, object, and process.
Together, Harris and Palarchio represent two compelling approaches to material investigation. While working in very different mediums, both artists reveal how process and material can carry cultural memory, personal history, and new formal possibilities.
Season Fair: Jen P. Harris and Dominic Palarchio
Abattoir Gallery is excited to introduce our program to Detroit audiences at the Season fair this September. Our presentation includes work by two artists with strong Midwest ties who have both attracted support and attention.
Dominic Palarchio was born and raised in the Detroit region. He took his BFA at the College of Creative Studies and his MFA in Sculpture at Cranbrook Academy of Art. He lives and works in New York. Palarchio’s sculpture emerges from both conceptual strategies and a deep-rooted engagement with the industrial landscape of Detroit. Central to his latest body of work is petroleum coke, the dense carbon fuel derived from coal. Using this material, Palarchio builds table top sculptures projecting geological scale and a delicacy delineated by metallic jewelry boxes which brace the vertical carbon stacks. The work highlights the physical substance that underpinned the rise of cities like Detroit while reimagining it as a vehicle for formal and conceptual inquiry.
Jen P. Harris, based in Cleveland, has developed a distinctive body of "loom-paintings" that dissolve conventional boundaries between painting and weaving. Beginning with a painted canvas that is subsequently transformed into a functioning loom, Harris weaves on the surface, creating works in which painted and woven elements exist in dialogue. The resulting compositions engage the histories of textile practice, painting, and drawing while emphasizing fluidity over fixed categories, inviting viewers to reconsider the relationship between image, object, and process.
Together, Harris and Palarchio represent two compelling approaches to material investigation. While working in very different mediums, both artists reveal how process and material can carry cultural memory, personal history, and new formal possibilities.