“Mis Obey” and “Dis Obey”, Kate Strachan, Ceramic, felt, encaustic wax & wood
The following event was cancelled due to the SPS Technologies Fire Emergency.
Please enjoy the following video interviews with both artists!
Abington Art Center is proud to host an artist talk, featuring 2025 Winter Solo Series artists Eric Anthony Berdis and Kate Strachan.
Free programming like this is made possible by your generous donations. Please consider making a donation to the center today.
Eric Anthony Berdis
Eric Anthony Berdis’ work simultaneously celebrates the contributions of queer artists and reflects on the violence and oppression that has lingered and continues to linger throughout queer history. This juxtaposition of celebration and reflection is evident in their childlike play of materials and connections to queer art history. Happiness and play are vital to survival, and Berdis, being a queer artist themself, is no stranger to this. They note “joy is an act of resilience—a critical method of subverting hegemonic narratives of suffering.”
Kate Strachan
Using a blend of materials—wax, wood, ceramic, and felt—Kate Strachan draws upon her Pennsylvania Dutch heritage to create work that comprises relics and manuscripts that convey and preserve the rituals of action, sexuality, and silence. Her artwork reflects the ancestral manuscripts that detail life, death, spiritual poetry, and house blessings, typical of Pennsylvania Dutch Frakturs. With an emphasis on materiality, Strachan notes, “I weave together ceramic for its fragility and coolness, felt for its capacity to evoke silence, wax for its encaustic technique symbolizing preservation, and wood for its primal origins…Through these materials, I tell my own story, layering meaning and texture to explore the depths of human experience.”
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This event is produced as part of our 2025 Winter Solo Series, on view from January 16 – February 24, 2025.
Our artist talks are sponsored in part by the Jenkintown Lyceum.
Free exhibition programming is made possible through your generous donations. Please consider making a donation to Abington Art Center today. Thank you for supporting the arts!