Current
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All Small
Abattoir at the Quarter 3 - 30 Apr 2025 Abattoir is pleased to present All Small, an exhibition of small works by regional and national artists. The show includes a selection of work by established and emerging artists, highlighting Abattoir’s diverse program. Emily Bartolone Julia Callis Eleanor Conover Jen P. Harris R Kauff Catherine Lentini Jason Murphy Emily Olszewski... Read more -
John Miller: Walking in the City
Opening reception Saturday, April 26 from 6 - 8 pm 26 Apr - 30 May 2025 John Miller presents a recent iteration of his long-standing photographic project, The Middle of the Day, together with a related video work, Walking in the City, at Abattoir. It is the artist’s first exhibition in Cleveland. The artist will be present at the opening reception and a text by Michelle... Read more
Past
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Dana Oldfather: De Novo
14 Mar - 19 Apr 2025 De Novo, Dana Oldfather's second solo exhibition with Abattoir, opens on March 14th. Opening reception 6 - 8pm. Oldfather is a landscape painter whose work conjures the universal and specific at once, translating the browns and greens of Northeast Ohio’s forests into fervid otherworldly set pieces ripe with drama. Her... Read more -
New Voices
Julia Callis, Jen P. Harris, Claudia Peña Salinas, Thiang Uk 24 Jan - 7 Mar 2025 New Voices brings together artists working in Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore, and Mexico across mediums and generations. This group show features four artists who use materiality to conjure spiritual forces, primeval imagination, and history in ways that reach beyond fact and science into other realms. This emphasis on materials leads the... Read more -
Emily Olszewski: Rituals
Abattoir at the Quarter 19 Nov - 19 Mar 2024 Abattoir is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Emily Olszewski at our Hingetown location, Abattoir at The Quarter. Olszewski’s paintings depict scenes of young women together in settings specific enough to seem familiar to residents of Northeast Ohio, while still providing a general backdrop for the... Read more -
Shawn Powell: Triangle, Circle, Square
19 Oct - 15 Dec 2024 This show continues Powell’s exploration of previous themes that question the artifice of painting—abstraction, representation, the subject as decoy. Always keen on everyday objects, Powell renders his subject matter with a signature delightfully deadpan manner, enlarging detailed views of pencils and cigarettes into weighty presences on canvas. He invites close... Read more
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Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson: Lava Fields and Tundras
6 Sep - 16 Oct 2024 Hildur Jonsson Read more -
Emil Robinson: Interiors
19 Apr - 1 Jun 2024 Abattoir is pleased to introduce new paintings by Cincinnati-based artist Emil Robinson in a solo exhibition 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. Robinson, a classically-trained painter from Ohio,... Read more -
The Silver Woman: Becoming Afro-Latina
17 Nov 2023 - 15 Jan 2024 Abattoir presents the first photography exhibition at the gallery, a selection of prints from a new body of work by Atlanta-based photographer Nydia Blas. Born and raised in Ithaca, NY, Blas holds a BS from Ithaca College and an MFA from Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts. Her... Read more -
Audra Skuodas: Thirty Years of Abstraction
22 Oct - 16 Nov 2023 A focused and prolific artist, Skuodas produced thousands of paintings, drawings and artist’s books that explore the boundaries between internal and external realities. Her work veers between the figurative and abstract, often combining recurring motifs of ovals, dots and geometric linear patterns with elongated figures and hands. She was on... Read more
