Sun 10/22 @ 3-5PM
Artist Audra Skuodas, who lived in Oberlin until her death in 2019, was a prolific painter known for her largely abstract works which incorporated some figurative elements as well as geometric shapes and patterns, using vivid colors.
The Lithuanian-born artist spent her early years in a German displaced persons camp before arriving in the U.S. at the age of 9. She was educated in Illinois before moving to Ohio in the 60s. Her bio says that she “was on a lifelong quest to process her early trauma and to understand how the energies within and beyond the self are intertwined.”
Abattoir Gallery in the Hildebrandt Building in the Clark-Fulton neighborhood represents Skuodas’ estate, and this week it will open its first show of her work titled Thirty Years of Abstraction. It will host an opening reception on Sunday October 22, with members of the artist’s family and remarks by Cleveland Museum of Art curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Emily Liebert, at 3:30pm. It’s free and open to all.
The show will be on view through November 16.