Season Fair 2026: Jen P. Harris and Dominic Palarchio

Season Fair: Jen P. Harris and Dominic Palarchio

September 11 - 13, 2026 

Booth G1

at the Shepherd

1265 Parkview St

Detroit, MI 48214

Abattoir Gallery is excited to introduce our program to Detroit audiences at 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.

Jen P. Harris (they/she) repositions the relationship between painting and textiles to conjure abstract representations of queer embodiment. Harris received a BA in Studio Art from Yale University and an MFA in Painting from Queens College of the City University of New York. Their work has been recognized by the Pollock Krasner Foundation, Puffin Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Edward Albee Foundation. Harris' works are in numerous public and private collections and are featured in the book Textiles x Art: How Textiles Are Shaping Contemporary Art (Thames & Hudson, 2025). Recent exhibitions include Patricia Sweetow Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Jane Lombard Gallery (New York, NY), Essex Flowers (New York, NY), Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn, NY), and Abattoir Gallery (Cleveland, OH). Harris is based in Cleveland, OH.

Dominic Palarchio (b.1995 Brighton, MI) lives and works in New York and Detroit. His artworks have been exhibited in the Front Triennial at Akron Art Museum, Cranbrook Art Museum, as well as galleries and offsite spaces in New York City and across the Midwest. Palarchio’s art has been the subject of critical inquiry printed in several cultural publications, newspapers, magazines, and journals. He received an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA at the College for Creative Studies. His work is held in the collection of Case Western Reserve University.