Title
Round
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 42 inches
Courtesy of Abattoir Gallery
Estimated Retail Value: $6,000
Starting Bid: $3,000
Drawing on Color Field painting, hard-edge abstraction, and Op art, Catherine Lentini creates work that engages visual perception through alternating stripes in vibrant hues, producing optical mixtures and a sense of movement. While rooted in mid-century abstraction, her paintings connect to today’s sociopolitical climate, reflecting anxieties around renewed global instability and the return of 1970s-era conditions—from nuclear tensions to rising costs of living. Lentini links these concerns to her formal language while extending them through a contemporary, neo-conceptual lens, incorporating influences from famed artists Richard Anuszkiewicz and Ed Mieczkowski alongside visual cues drawn from everyday public design, such as street signage and gas stations.
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Catherine Lentini
Catherine Lentini (lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio) earned her BA from Bennington College and her MFA from Kent State University. Lentini has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions across the United States, including presentations at Abattoir Gallery (Cleveland), Morgan Lehman Gallery (New York), and galleries and institutions in Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco. Her work is held in numerous private collections and has been featured in publications such as New American Paintings.
