Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler is pleased to announce Trey Abdella's first solo exhibition with the gallery. Cold Front presents new work by Trey Abdella that examines how ceremony, tradition, and commercialization intersect within the visual language of winter.
In works that merge hyperreal figuration with resin, glitter, and lenticular surfaces, Abdella stages scenes where warmth and danger coexist. Through layered, mixed-media compositions, he reflects on the seasonal performance of comfort and festivity, tracing how sentiment, excess, and artificiality intertwine. Extending his exploration of American visual culture, Abdella reveals how ritual and spectacle in consumer culture smooth over what is tender, anxious, or strange, leaving emotion itself caught beneath the surface sheen.