Petshop

Petshop is a shared creative space in Benson
with galleries, studios, offices, and event space.

Currently at your local PETSHOP

CUNTRY GRAVY
Gloria Ceren
September - October 2023

Cuntry Gravy is part of an ongoing series of menstrual excavations from my abnormally, heavy periods. With thick clots and delicate washes, these paintings develop from nearly seven years of monthly, tapped reserves. The act of painting in this manner of “kickin’ it” through these particularly, crampy times, probes at the thought of what menses could become. My body and patience channel in on this intuitive process. Lines glide, pours pool, strokes blend, and pigments eventually oxidize. Even anemia comes into question. How can this longstandingly-shrouded, forbidden, flow be met with a more authentic representation of what menstruation entails? Painting with menses challenges my durational stamina and brings me to ponder this material apart from waste. In a time when access to fundamental, reproductive rights are continuing to be restricted, these paintings assert the private and personal over the public and proper.

The work embodies a continued frustration caught in the crossfires of the performative nature of body politics in a Post-Roe United States.

For more about the artist visit www.gloriaceren.com/

About

Taking over what was a defunct exotic pet store,
Petshop was founded as a studio & gallery space in June 2012 by Ben McQuillan, Jamie Danielle Hardy, & Alex Jochim.

Next door, within the same building, a similar space dubbed Sweatshop was founded in July 2012
- featuring a gallery and live music venue - by Kim Darling, Sarah Rowe, Alex Jochim, Jamie Danielle Hardy, Dan Cavanagh, & Caitlin Little.

In 2015, a wall was knocked down and the two became one under the name PETSHOP.

In 2018, PETSHOP expanded further north, to encompass 2725, 2727, & 2729 N. 62nd Street.
This new addition holds additional studio spaces, along with the offices, meeting space, and storage for BFF Omaha.

Petshop was created by a team of creatives
and a supportive community.
"Sweatshop Date Night" - above - was a successful fundraiser partnered with Lot 2 restaurant in 2013.

Petshop co-founders Jamie Danielle Hardy, Ben McQuillan,
& Alex Jochim.

In the "Backroom" event space...

Petshop is available for musical and performance bookings!
Please fill out THIS FORM
to set up a private event or performance, or schedule a stop on your tour!

PETSHOP BOOKINGS ARE TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE :(

PRIVATE RENTALS AND SHOW INQUIRIES

In the Galleries

Curated by Joe Addison & Alex Jochim,
Petshop hosts monthly exhibitions, with openings during First Friday art walks 7-10pm.

Gallery hours upon request via petshop@bffomaha.org

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