Thu 9/14 @ 6-8PM
Abattoir Gallery will be hosting an opening Friday September 14 by a Kent artist
Gianna Commito. Although Commito isn’t a native Ohioan — she grew up at various locations on the east coast — she arrived here in 2005 to teach at Kent State University, where she’s a professor of painting.
During her time here, she’s also enhanced her reputation as an artist, showing her work locally at venues such as the former William Busta Gallery, moCa and the Akron Art Museum, as well as in New York. This is her first show at Abattoir.
Of her new show, Slip Lanes, featuring paintings and works on paper, the gallery says that in it, Commito “forges a highly personal language of forms drawn from architecture and the built environment, filtered through the lens of industrial and graphic design.” Architectural fragments stud the works, blurring objective reality and internal spaces. Commito describes them as “paintings that walk up to the edge of chaos but are held together by some source of consistency, a central access, or underlying symmetry.”
The show opens with a reception on Thursday September 14 and will be on view through Saturday October 14.