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Lost Fur, 24" x 24", Oil On Panel
Nicole Parker: How Sad, How Lovely
June 6 - June 28
Gross McCleaf Gallery is pleased to present How Sad, How Lovely, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Nicole Parker. An accomplished intaglio printmaker and intuitive colorist, Parker brings a quiet intensity to her paintings, where perception, memory, and emotion are distilled into delicate calibrations of light, air, and atmosphere. Her layered and step-wise approach lends itself to subtle transformation: “I like the resulting sense of boundlessness,” she reflects, “But I also want to highlight the physicality of things that we usually perceive as an absence of anything…‘Dark’ and ‘air’ and ‘space’ don’t mean nothingness.”
With tenderness and precision, Parker invites viewers into intangible moments—of dusk, a distant glow, or the faint glint of fur in shadow. Her subjects are often overlooked or unseeable: sky, darkness, quiet. “Light is the leading character in everything hung in this show,” she notes, “but the source of it is never necessary.” ...
Grotto Pizza, 6" x 6", Oil On Panel
Nasir Young: In Plain Sight
June 6 - June 28
Gross McCleaf Gallery is pleased to present In Plain Sight, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Nasir Young. With this body of work, Young expands his visual language beyond the streetscapes of Philadelphia, drawing from recent travels across the country to explore how built environments—no matter how culturally distinct—carry shared codes of belonging and memory. Young notes, “I’m using the same principles of finding an image but expanding the conversation. There is an ability to read a landscape you've never been in and find belonging.”
Young’s process is one of accumulation. Observation, intuition, and material culture converge in his practice, where found imagery, street ephemera, signage, and windows are stitched into quiet, open-ended narratives. “I’ve always enjoyed hiding elements in paintings that only friends would search for, like an Easter egg.” Young explains. “My works exist to show what was in plain sight all along.” ...
Heidi Leitzke, Slow Growth at Red Cliffs, 16" x 12", Gouache On Paper
It’s the Little Things:
Small Works, Thoughtful Gifts
from Gross McCleaf Gallery
As spring unfolds into summer, we’re delighted to share a curated selection of small-scale artworks to help you celebrate the colorful, joyous and meaningful moments this season.
Explore “It’s the Little Things” to find your heartfelt gift or a fresh addition to your space.
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We have moved! We’re delighted to announce that Gross McCleaf Gallery has relocated to the Manayunk neighborhood of Philadelphia, in The Mill Studios - just off Main Street at the Belmont exit from I-76.
This new location meets the moment in today’s shifting art market while benefiting GMG, our artists, and loyal clients. At its 3rd site in 55 years, Gross McCleaf will continue providing a comfortable, convenient setting to engage with your favorite art & artists and now includes free and easy parking!
I am excited for Gross McCleaf's new phase and look forward to seeing you soon in our new location!
Rebecca Segall
Owner & Director
Gross McCleaf Gallery
Elizabeth Johnson: You won third place in The State Museum of Pennsylvania's Art of the State (2024-25), with GH Old-Growth Forest. I love this piece for its horizonal format and left-to-right transition from darkness to light; magenta edges really work to activate this forest. Can you talk about how the idea for this piece came about, the stages you worked through, and why you chose it for the State Museum show?
Thomas Paquette: For the last couple years, I have been scouting the remnants of eastern old-growth forests that are still standing, from New England to beyond Lake Superior. In a painting, the difference between old-growth forests and a regenerated forest can be elusively subtle, but I sense the profound difference when I am in the middle of one. In retrospect, I suppose the format of GH Old-Growth Forest was a rather unselfconscious desire to have a sort of panoramic view of something we don’t normally experience that way. A seeing of the forest and the trees...
