Congratulations Julie Schenkelberg on your upcoming solo exhibition “Parlor Trix,” at Abattoir Gallery, in Cleveland, OH, July 2-October 12, 2024.
@julieschenkelberg @abattoirgallery
Location: 2615 Detroit Ave, Hingetown, Ohio City
Abattoir is pleased to announce an exhibition of sculptures by Julie Schenkelberg at Abattoir, at The Quarter. The exhibition focuses on the three-dimensional work, Parlor Trix, and includes newer wall sculptures based on this seminal piece. Schenkelberg hails from Cleveland; her mixed-media installations are responsive to the post-industrial landscape of her youth. In her practice, she pulls found materials from the domestic sphere—furniture, dishware, textiles, and marble. Often these material signifiers are combined with concrete, resin, and construction materials to reframe the viewer’s notions of domesticity and engage with the region’s RustBelt’s legacy of neglect and decay. Just as Cleveland and the region have embraced a more optimistic outlook, so Schenkelberg brings a poetic, even lighthearted tone to her subject. She views the notion of home as a playground for formal and conceptual subversions. Familiar furnishings rekindle premonitions of collapse, but also the unexpected juxtapositions of fragile materials such as cloth and porcelain, with industrial products including discarded metal and concrete. She brings past experience in scenic theater design to her artistic practice, embracing theatricality in her sculptural installations.
Image 1: Parlor Trix, Acrylic, cloth, aqua resin, plaster, found table, vintage window, and wood, 6 x 5 x 3 feet
Image 2: Domestic Bliss, 2024, butter knives, dry wall plaster, paint, 25 x 23 x 2 inches
Image 3: Devil’s Treasure Chest, 2024, Aqua Resin, plaster, and paint, 32 x 20 x 3 inches
Image 4: Garden of Moon, 2024, Aqua Resin, plaster, and paint, 32 x 20 x 3 inches
Image 5: Victorian Delight, 2024, Aqua Resin, plaster, and paint, 32 x 20 x 3 inches
Image 6: Babylon 1, Aqua Resin, plaster, and paint, 32 x 20 x 3 inches
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