Eleanor Conover and Virginia Overton at Arrival Art Fair June 12 – 15, 2025
TOURISTS, North Adams, Massachusetts
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Abattoir Gallery is thrilled to participate in the inaugural edition of Arrival Art Fair, taking place at TOURISTS, a hotel and riverside retreat in North Adams, Massachusetts June 12-15th, 2025. Abattoir has been selected to participate by an esteemed team of Curatorial Ambassadors representing institutions in the region and beyond.
Our presentation will focus on Virginia Overton and Eleanor Conover, two artists who consider form, environment, and cultural history in painting, sculpture, and installation work. Process and a response to the built environment is paramount to both—assembling, disassembling, gathering, analyzing how we put together and take apart our natural and built environments. Virginia Overton is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation repurposing industrial and natural materials. She has exhibited in museums throughout the United States and Europe. In September she opens an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Winterthur.
Eleanor Conover is a painter working in Maine whose unique shaped canvases engage with the physical and material conditions of painting as a metaphor for time and space, and the ecology of the Northeast. Conover’s solo exhibition,
As the Crow Flies, opens at the gallery on May 30th. Recent past exhibitions include Praise Shadows, MA, White Columns, NY, Abattoir, Cleveland, OH; Hudson House, Hudson, NY; Bad Water, Knoxville, TN; and Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY.
In addition to works by these artists, we will also have a selection of gallery artists on view in the booth. Dana Oldfather and Jen P. Harris work in Cleveland. Emil Robinson works in Cincinnati. Audra Skuodas (1940-2019) lived and worked in Oberlin, Ohio. Abattoir represents the artist’s estate together with Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York.
For all inquires contact Lisa Kurzner at lisa@abattoirgallery.com.