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Abington Art Center is a community center focused on music, drawing, painting, oil, ceramics, metals, sewing, embroidery, pottery, and jewelry classes. It is an outdoor free concert venue, with theater, dance, jazz, and live music on stage. You can buy gifts, crafts, bracelets, necklaces, and rings at the unique holiday fair.

Solo Series Winter 2025



Fraktur “Trust”, 2024 | Kate Strachan | Ceramic, felt, wax & wood, $1,000

On View January 16 – February 24, 2025

Opening Reception | Thursday, January 16 | 6:00p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Artist Talk | Saturday, February 1 | 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Artist Talk | Wednesday, February 12 | 6:00 p.m. – 8:00p.m.


DIGITAL CATALOG


ARTISTS


Eric Anthony Berdis, Fiber and Installation

Scarecrow-Gold Eyes, 2025 | Textiles, embellishments, handmade paper on wooden armature, $3,000
Scarecrow-Puppy, 2025 | Textiles, embellishments, handmade paper on wooden armature, $3,000

“Using personal secrets, queer history, and gay boy glamour, my work builds a world for my audience to enter.”

– 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.”

Eric Anthony Berdis’ Paper Bullies and Friends of Dorothy’s is being exhibited in our Community Arts gallery.


Alicia Finger, Painting

Another Place, Another Time, 2024
| Acrylic on cut paper, collage, $1,025
Beginning to Understand the Terrain, 2022
| Acrylic on cut paper, collage, $625

“Each piece has gone through a range of stages and appearances, reemerging as different works each stage.”

– Alicia Finger

Alicia Finger encapsulates her memories and visits through a combination of painting and collage. Using water-based paints, Finger begins by developing a series of paintings on paper, inspired by places she has been to. She then begins the meticulous process of cutting, rearranging, and layering the material to create dimensional paintings that break beyond the bounds of the paper plane. This evolution parallels memory, noting “as my memories of these places and experiences evolve, so do these works.”

Alicia Finger’s Reconstructed Places is on view in our Tile gallery.


Jenna Hannum, Mixed Media

The dying of the light, 2022 | Oil, graphite, and embroidery on linen, $2,400
It wasn’t deadly (III), 2022 | Oil, graphite, and rabbit skin glue on paper, $1,800

“These new portraits on paper and linen, combinations of fine art and craft, are an elegy to the women I’ve lost and a way to retroactively be a caregiver through drawing and embroidery.”

– Jenna Hannum

Jenna Hannum combines scientific illustration with unconventional portraiture to catalog childhood memories, family medical histories, and the biological journeys of loved ones. Following the tragic passing of both her mother and sister, her work stems from her desire to have spent more time as a caretaker. “Creating ink from the ashes of medical records and repurposing the tangible items left behind by [her] mother and sister”, Hannum’s careful renditions allow her to retroactively be a caregiver, even posthumously.

Jenna Hannum’s Elegy is on view in our Kellner gallery.


Kate Strachan, Mixed Media

Fraktur “Dis Obey” and “Mis Obey” (diptych), 2024 | Ceramic, felt, wax & wood, $900 (each)
Fraktur “Trust”, 2024 | Ceramic, felt, wax & wood, $1,000

“Our artwork serves as a curiosity cabinet, a repository where we place ourselves within the collected fragments of our existence. Much like the rooms we inhabit, our creations become filled with impressions of our identities and experiences.”

– 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.” 

Kate Strachan’s I n v i s i b l e  Sight is on display in our Book Room gallery.


For inquiries about work in our exhibition, please contact acook@abingtonartcenter.org.