Abattoir Gallery

About the Gallery
Abattoir is a space for contemporary art in the historic Hildebrandt Building, a former meat processing plant in the resurgent Clark-Fulton neighborhood of Cleveland, located between the West 25th Street corridor and Ohio City. The gallery was launched in 2020 by Lisa Kurzner and Rose Burlingham. It presents a program of local, regional, and national artists, designed to elicit thought-provoking conversation and discussion.

About the Presentation
Abattoir presents a new body of work by Michelle Grabner for the gallery’s solo presentation at Independent 2025. Grabner, a conceptual artist as well as a teacher and critic, has mined the vocabularies of domestic patterns and fabrics in much of her painting, printmaking and sculpture over the last 25 years, with a concentration on ginghams, burlaps, and crocheted items that are foundational to her art work. This new work extends her interest in the replication of common things from the personal domestic sphere of home and kitchen to the public yet overlooked world of the janitorial underclass in the United States.