Sat 9/30 @ 3PM
Artist Gianna Commito isn’t a native Ohioan — she grew up at various locations on the east coast — but she arrived here in 2005 to teach at Kent State University, where she’s a professor of painting. So she’s basically a northeast Ohio artist now
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. Her current show, Slip Lanes, at the Abattoir Gallery on the Hildebrandt Building, is her first in that venue.
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.”
Commito will be doing an artist talk at the gallery Saturday September 30, talking about her abstract painting practice and influences, her unique use of casein paint and other topics. It’s free and open to all. RSVP to emily@abattoirgallery.com.