Artist
Artwork Checklist
More Exhibitions at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler
Similar Exhibitions
Guestbook
Press Release
Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler is pleased to present Cold Front, the first solo exhibition by Trey Abdella with the gallery.
Growing up in West Virginia, Abdella’s earliest experiences of visual spectacle came from theme parks, hunting trips, and the seasonal displays of domestic life. In his practice, he reflects on how everyday craft, decoration, and entertainment shape the way we see and feel. Trained as a painter but working with a cinematic and sculptural approach to surface and texture, he constructs complex, tactile compositions. Abdella carries forward this fascination with illusion and craft, drawing inspiration from Robert Gober’s exploration of the uncanny in the everyday and Tex Avery’s exaggerated animation logic.
Within Cold Front Abdella examines how ceremony, tradition, and commercialization intersect within the visual language of winter, often leaving the viewer suspended between tenderness and unease, affect conveyed through panoramic views and spatially immersive scenes. In…
Exhibition Space

Press Release
Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler is pleased to present Cold Front, the first solo exhibition by Trey Abdella with the gallery.
Growing up in West Virginia, Abdella’s earliest experiences of visual spectacle came from theme parks, hunting trips, and the seasonal displays of domestic life. In his practice, he reflects on how everyday craft, decoration, and entertainment shape the way we see and feel. Trained as a painter but working with a cinematic and sculptural approach to surface and texture, he constructs complex, tactile compositions. Abdella carries forward this fascination with illusion and craft, drawing inspiration from Robert Gober’s exploration of the uncanny in the everyday and Tex Avery’s exaggerated animation logic.
Within Cold Front Abdella examines how ceremony, tradition, and commercialization intersect within the visual language of winter, often leaving the viewer suspended between tenderness and unease, affect conveyed through panoramic views and spatially immersive scenes. In…



















































































































































