Eleanor Conover

@econover featured in @hyperallergic today at @independent_hq The fair continues through Sunday. Visit us at booth #415. Independent Pier 36 299 South Street New York, 10002 Dates May 14–17, 2026 Hours Thursday, May 14, 2026 | 11 AM – 5 PM (By Invitation) Friday, May 15, 2026 | 11 AM – 7 PM Saturday, May 16, 2026 | 11 AM – 7 PM Sunday, May 17, 2026 | 11 AM – 6 PM

Eleanor Conover @econover discusses her meticulously constructed abstract, shaped canvas paintings now up @independent_hq booth 415 @abattoirgallery through May 17 - @ksancken - link in bio - artist photo by Jay Stern #interlocutorinterviews #indepedentnewyork #eleanorconover #abbatoirgallery

@whitehotmagazine highlights Eleanor Conover’s exhibition at Abattoir Gallery, tracing the artist’s nuanced engagement with material, memory, and perception through her latest body of work. We’re grateful for this thoughtful feature. Read more at the link in bio. Independent opens this week! Visit us at booth #415 to see Eleanor's new work. Eleanor Conover Here, Here, 2026 Oil, dye, and graphite on sewn canvas and polyester with marble, bowed oak, and beveled pine 86 x 60 x 5 inches Photo courtesy the artist. @econover @independent_hq

Independent opens next week. We are thrilled to be showing a new body of work by Maine-based painter Eleanor Conover. Rooted in process, Conover looks to unlearn conventions of painting and contribute to the language of abstraction through the corporeal act of painting. Integrating handmade and craft traditions, her approach is meticulous and physical, exploring the primacy of her materials through hewn stretcher bars, stitched pockets and punctures, arduously dyed linen, and layered paint. Abattoir Gallery | Booth #415 May 14–17, 2026 Independent Pier 36 299 South Street New York, 10002 Located on the Lower East Side at the intersection of Montgomery Street and South Street Hours Thursday, May 14, 2026 | 11 AM – 5 PM (By Invitation) Friday, May 15, 2026 | 11 AM – 7 PM Saturday, May 16, 2026 | 11 AM – 7 PM Sunday, May 17, 2026 | 11 AM – 6 PM Eleanor Conover After Addison (II) , 2026 Oil, acrylic, and graphite on sewn linen with marble and bowed and beveled pine 49 x 35 x 3 inches Photos courtesy the artist @econover @independent_hq

Today it’s a sunny crisp April in Maine and I want to suggest that actually it’s December that is the cruelest month here, in its brooding darkness. I kept the lights on into the night in December, and I made a lot of drawings. Here are some I want to share. Inertia is a powerful thing. These drawings began as rubbings from the front and back of old paintings. I also started re reading leaves of grass, which hits differently when you’re not a closeted, sleep-deprived 19 year old with imposter syndrome slumped in the back of a lecture hall. But Whitman is all about revision, and April is for turning the fing page :) 🐸

Abattoir is excited to present new work by Eleanor Conover at Independent, May 14 - 17, 2026. @independent_hq Abattoir Gallery | Booth #415 Eleanor Conover Warm Illusion, 2026 Oil, graphite, and dye on sewn polyester and linen with marble, bowed oak, and beveled pine 70.5 x 49 x 3.5 inches Photo courtesy of the Artist and Abattoir Gallery @econover #eleanorconover #abattoirgallery

Abattoir is thrilled to introduce new paintings by Eleanor Conover at Independent 2026, marking the artist’s first solo presentation in New York. Independent will take place May 14 - 17. See details below! Abattoir Gallery | Booth #415 Independent Pier 36 299 South Street New York, 10002 Dates May 14–17, 2026 Hours Thursday, May 14, 2026 | 11 AM – 5 PM (By Invitation) Friday, May 15, 2026 | 11 AM – 7 PM Saturday, May 16, 2026 | 11 AM – 7 PM Sunday, May 17, 2026 | 11 AM – 6 PM

The year has flown. 2025 in birds, etc.

“Eleanor Conover’s shaped canvases appear to take form the way water flows over stone. Over time, the repetitiveness of the changing tides leave their marks, their indentations, their grooves and ultimately shape the rocks. This synthesis of organic and structural is at the core of Conover’s work. Having spent many summers in the quarries of Maine, Conover draws inspiration from the structural elements of rock formations and begins the construction of her paintings with a sketch. Like an architect mapping the armature of their building the sketch is the guiding force as she begins to work. Once determined, the supports are then built, fabric is dyed and prepped, repeatedly ironed, sewn together and then stretched. Only at this point does painting begin. Deeply influenced by the blocky paint application and brash use of negative space in Cezanne’s watercolor drawings, Eleanor’s remembered experiences of nature take hold as she paints her surfaces. “ Eleanor Conover After, Against, Among, 2025 Oil, acrylic, dye, and graphite on sewn linen and polyester with marble, beveled pine and bowed oak.

Opening Reception, Saturday October 25, 12-2pm 79 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY For more information please email [email protected] ELEANOR CONOVER I LAUREN LULOFF I TESSA G. O’BRIEN Curated by HILARY SCHAFFNER Upstairs: ALEXANDER RUSSI - CONFLUENCE #alexanderrussi #halseymckaygallery #eleanorconover #laurenluloff #tessagobrien #hilaryschaffner @econover @laurenluloff @tessagreeneobrien @hilary_hvas @alexander_russi

ELEANOR CONOVER | LAUREN LULOFF | TESSA G. O’BRIEN Curated by HILARY SCHAFFNER Opening reception: Saturday, October 25, 12-2 pm 79 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY For further information email [email protected] Pictured: Eleanor Conover, Partings, 2024, Oil, acrylic, bleach, and graphite on sewn canvas and linen with bowed and beveled pine, 76 x 96 x 4 inches #hilaryschaffner #eleanorconover #laurenluloff #tessagreeneobrien @hilary_hvas @econover @laurenluloff @tessagreeneobrien

Wild Thing @caldbeckgallery runs through this Saturday, October 18! I am so thankful to be showing/sharing work in the midcoast so close to home. Thanks to everyone who has visited the gallery!! 🫶 This is one of the small paintings in the show, titled Correspondence, 2025, oil, acrylic, graphite, and dye on sewn linen and polyester with beveled and bowed pine. 16.5 x 23.5 x 2 inches. The painting bows outward in a convex manner.