Basketshop Gallery

10/10/2026

📣Opening tonight Sat 10/10 6-9pm! marzenaabrahamik our 2026 FotoFocus Cincinnati Come meet Marzenna and check out her work!

10/02/2026

GirlPlay by Marzena Abrahamik explores the political and fantastical themes that emerge at the intersection of women’s rights and cannabis culture. Abrahamik imagines
a fantasy space for rethinking the figure of a Girl. Cannabis and women’s freedoms remain sites of ongoing political struggle, their regulations shifting with the social climate. The mythology of the “stoner” has been coded male: humorous, passive, and carefree- while women’s desires have often been framed as excessive. GirlPlay counters these narratives, staging lush, dreamlike environments where
cannabis becomes a site of feminine agency. Within these hot-spring-like spaces, rebellion and aspiration thrive, sidestepping the male gaze and grounding new attachments to fantasy, creativity, and freedom. The photographs move between intimate and surreal. Nakedness is not a vulnerability but a marker of agency, intimacy, and care. Portraits acknowledge the body as a site of both pleasure and struggle. Landscapes blur the cultural touchstones of a day-dreamyparadise. Still-life becomes a
hyper-focused endeavor involving low stakes and joy.

Abrahamik’s images insist on a female discourse, presenting women in relation to one
another rather than as subjects of a male fantasy. GirlPlay invites viewers to consider photography not as a passive reflection of reality but as an active site of women’s pleasure, rebellion, and transformation.

Abrahamik’s work has been exhibited at the Film School in Łódź, Poland. In Chicago: Chicago Cultural Center Johalla Projects, Heaven Gallery, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Soccer Club Club, and Aperture. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright Scholar Award, Kosciuszko Foundation Scholarship, and IAS Artist Project Grant. Her work is held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.

09/11/2026

09/10/2026

Opening Fri. 9/11 | 6-9pm Jon Thompson Jon Thom Coworking Coworking Space BasketShop Gallery is partnering with Cincinnati filmmaker Jon Thompson to transform the gallery into The Coworking Coworking Space- a temporary workspace, creative studio, art gallery, and neighborhood gathering place from September 8 through October 2, 2026. The project brings Thompson’s vertical comedy series project, Coworking, out of the screen and into the physical world, inviting Cincinnatians to work, create, meet, and participate in the community surroundings of Westwood.

During the run of this exhibition, the gallery will function as a free, first-come, first-served coworking space with communal and individual workstations available Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. including other evening events that will utilize the gallery for small meetings, clubs, classes, and other community gatherings.

07/24/2026

Spectrum Electrolysis closes tomorrow 7/25 from 5-8pm! The sounds and images for Spectrum Electrolysis are a result of childhood memories and the pieces of evidence of my childhood. My suburban upbringing was document in part on my dad’s old camcorder, a Canon ES150 that shot on 8mm tape. The images you see in this gallery show are still taken from footage shot on this very camera. I was around 2 or 3 when these home recordings were captured in 1999 though 2000 at my family’s home in St Louis, MO at the time. Looking back on these moving images, I was delighted to see myself younger self and siblings playing about in a world of pre-transition, pre-gender, pre-tragedy, pre-heartbreak, and pre-experience.
The inkjet prints throughout this instillation were taken from stills in this home video that happened to be glitched; the visually come off as graphical artifacts on the artifact of the family home video. These images were then printed and had CMYK ink painted over them. These prints were then once again scanned and printed once more to result in what you see as the images in the space. These images transformed from RGB spectrum of the digital screened world into the CMYK spectrum of the real printed world in the process.
Each still image also has a corresponding audio being broadcast from behind the frame that can be tuned into with a radio. These mini broadcasts include a repetition of the F note on a piano so to correspond with the hexadecimal color codes for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black. They also contain audio from sections of home video tape each image was taken from.
The static that accompanies finding these broadcasts signals and visual static over the images can be viewed as disconnects of how we look at the world across multiple spectrums. There is the disconnect and connections of gender transitioning over time. The disconnect and connections of bodies changing with age. The disconnect and connections of our own thought processes. This piece works to convey how spectrums maybe viewed and broadcasted across the board.

06/13/2026

Gallery open hours 1-7pm for Spectrum Electrolysis by before TRANSMISSION VOL. 6

06/12/2026

Spectrum Electrolysis by opens 6-9pm! Tonight 6/12!

05/30/2026

Open hours 1-6pm Sat. May 30. A Tension EcoNomy .pap1 One week left to check it out! Support proudly provided by the Ohio Arts Council’s Art Start Grant!

05/16/2026

Open hours today Sat 5/16 3-6:30pm .pap1 A Tension EcoNomy 💙✨💙✨💙✨………………Transitioning towards modes of slowness, labor, and material intimacy, Contrario’s work stands in direct opposition to the speed of algorithmic consumption and the disposability of contemporary capitalism. “This process is inherently slow,” they write. “In the making of something, haciendo algo, the delayed gratification pits it against the dopamine-driven algorithm, against the convenience of a megalomart.” The work offers a meditation on systems of extraction while imagining futures beyond them.
Made possible with funds from the Ohio Arts Council ArtStart grant! Thank you!