Christine Rebuhn Exhibit: “Beasts of Burden” July 7 – August 1, 2026
Opening Reception Event Time: Thursday, July 9, 6:30-8 p.m.
Artist Talk (conversation with art educator Laurie Zieger): Saturday July 11, 1 p.m.
Contact: Bob Campagna, co-owner, Abbe Creek Gallery
Abbe Creek Gallery, 105 First St. NW, Mount Vernon, announces the opening of Christine Rebhuhn’s exhibit “Beasts of Burden.” The exhibit’s opening reception is Thursday, July 9, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
The Artist Talk is Saturday, July 11 at 1 p.m. Christine’s talk offers a unique opportunity in that her Mount Vernon High School art teacher Laurie Zaiger will join the conversation. Zaiger served as a definitive influence on Rebhuhn’s artistic development. Christine graduated from MVHS in 2007.
Rebhuhn’s exhibit will run from July 7 through Saturday, Aug. 1.
The public is invited to attend the opening reception and the artist talk. Both events are free and open to the public. As a Mount Vernon native, Rebhuhn’s exhibit is timed to coincide with the community’s annual Heritage Day Celebration.
Rebhuhn now resides in New York City. She exhibits nationally. Her most recent showing was in Florida.
“Beasts of Burden” features a diverse array of Rebhuhn’s masterful presentations befitting an multi-media creations. She terms this exhibit as “the widest range of work that I have made in the last several years. It’s more comprehensive than my prior work. Through the use of lines are several deconstructed instruments which provides a suggestion of sound in the room. It’s a dichotomy of fragile and strength.”
“This exhibit features mysterious power dynamics with a several animal elements. There is a lack of clarity between predator and prey. These are themes I have worked on for the last decade,” Rebhuhn added.
In the city’s Lester Buresh Wellness Center, Rebhuhn’s work is quite visible in the building’s foyer. Hanging over head, “High Octaves” (also known as the “whale piano”) was installed in 2023 to greet visitors. artist’s otherwise quiet mind. To create, Christine is always in the throes of noticing and imagining.
After high school she studied art at Kalamazoo College, the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, (Michigan), and earned a post-baccalaureate in ceramics in 2013 from Colorado State University, and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art (Michigan).
Now living in New York City, Rebhuhn’s first solo exhibit “The Breeze Will Kill Me,” displayed fall, 2021.
“That show was my moment of expansion. My studio, located in a place with carpenters and metal workers, offered accessible resources. I then had to figure out how to show work at exhibit scale,” she explained.
Her exhibits serve as her voice, a powerful compilation of found objects arranged into a mysterious sequence of balanced presentations befitting an artist’s otherwise quiet mind. To create, Christine is always in the throes of noticing and imagining.
Rebhuhn describes her creative process as observation, “looking for recurring themes, instruments, architectural windows, animals, industrial structures. I build up a system of what the ingredients can be.”
The gallery’s regular hours are Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Thursday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Closed Sunday and Monday.