September 12th - September 26th 2025
Private View: Thursday 11 September, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Location: 6 Hill Street, London, W1J 5NF
Information: Opening Tel. +44 20 7493 0688 / katz.art
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 6.00pm
Abattoir Gallery and The Daniel Katz Gallery are pleased to announce the forthcoming exhibition Interiors by the celebrated Cincinnati-based painter, Emil Robinson, courtesy of Abattoir Gallery. Featuring 8 new works, curated by Byron Houdayer and Robin Katz, the exhibition opens on Friday 12th September and runs until Friday 26th September 2025 at 6 Hill Street, London, W1J 5NF.
These paintings ask for a slower kind of looking. Robinson treats rooms as people: capable of moods, prickly with memory, lit by weather as much as by windows. He learned to see spaces once everyone had gone home—working as a school janitor as a teenager—and that vantage remains: the privileged, invisible visitor who notices secrets left-in skirting boards, exit signs and the scuff of a doorhandle. A sun-struck kitchenette, a stairwell blueing into night, a church corridor with suspended-ceiling tiles: tender without sentimentality and quietly exact about the world’s useful clutter.
- Brian Houdayer, curator
My paintings require me to occupy space in a way that most people will be unaccustomed to. As a teenager I worked as a janitor to help pay my way through private high school. A janitor understands a room in a different way than the guests at a party. Perhaps the janitor inhabits the space when others have left, maybe even at night. A janitor is invisible. But in another way the janitor is a privileged visitor, hearing, seeing, and thinking with curiosity. If there are secrets in the carpet, walls, and dustbins, the janitor might find them. The secrets may be his own, as they come to light in the empty room.
- Emil Robinson
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