Timothy Carr
August Hours
Open by appointment through August.
Regular hours resume September 18.
Upcoming Exhibitions
September 18 – October 17, 2026
Celia Reisman: Street Views
&
Common Ground, Curated by Celia Reisman
Featuring
Claudia Rilling, Lou Schellenberg, Laura Vahlberg, and Sophie C. White
Opening Receptions:
Saturday, September 19 | 1–4 PM
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Celia Reisman, Hideaway
36" x 40"
Oil on canvas
Celia Reisman: Street Views
September 18 - October 17, 2026
Gross McCleaf Gallery is proud to present Street Views, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Celia Reisman. Based on gouache drawings made on location throughout the Philadelphia suburbs, rural Vermont, and Portland, Oregon, these paintings transform familiar neighborhoods into imagined places where observation and invention coexist.
Through clear-edged forms, heightened color combinations, shifting perspectives, and alterations in scale, Reisman reimagines ordinary streets, backyards, gardens, and architecture as carefully constructed worlds. Drawn from lived experience yet reshaped through memory and intuition, each painting balances abstraction and representation. The traces of everyday life become the foundation for compositions that, in Reisman's words, "all add up to a place that calls out to be seen, embraced, recorded, documented."
Stay tuned for the exhibition preview, and additonal information.
Laura Vahlberg, Three Trees on a Hill
6.75" x 8"
Oil on canvas on board
Common Ground, Curated by Celia Reisman
Featuring Claudia Rilling, Lou Schellenberg, Laura Vahlberg, and Sophie C. White
September 18 – October 17, 2026
Gross McCleaf Gallery is proud to present Common Ground, a group exhibition curated by Celia Reisman featuring paintings by Claudia Rilling, Lou Schellenberg, Laura Vahlberg, and Sophie C. White. Conceived as a companion exhibition to Reisman's concurrent solo exhibition Street Views, Common Ground brings together artists who share an interest in architecture within the landscape, revealing how individual decisions of composition, color, space, and form can transform the same subject into distinctly personal interpretations.
How do we each look at a location and reinterpret it? What decisions do we make to capture and reference a specific place? Common Ground begins with these questions. Each artist starts from a specific location in their immediate environment and expands from there, using composition, color, spatial construction, and other formal decisions to reshape what is observed. Seen together, the paintings create a compelling opportunity to compare and contrast the many ways artists translate place into personal expression.
Stay tuned for the exhibition preview, and additonal information.
Timothy Carr, Love Letter to Longing
24” x 24” x 36” (Without Pedestal)
Stoneware, Underglaze, Engobe, Glaze, Decals, and Gold Luster
Introducing Timothy Carr
Gross McCleaf Gallery is delighted to welcome Timothy Carr to our roster of represented artists.
Part vessel, part sculpture, part illustrated folklore, Timothy Carr's ceramic works bring together traditional pottery techniques with contemporary visual culture. A Philadelphia-based ceramic artist, Carr combines wheel-thrown and hand-built forms with painting, illustration, and narrative imagery, creating works that blur the line between functional object and contemporary sculpture.
“From the earliest form of human writing on cuneiform tablets, to the porcelain dental fillings in our teeth, to the tile lining on the exterior of rocket-ships that blast off into space, ceramics not only serve a function but also captures a story.” - Timothy Carr
Ancient forms become surfaces for graffiti, pop culture, personal narrative, and references drawn from his Swiss-Canadian upbringing, family history, and life in Philadelphia. His studies in Philadelphia, alongside residencies in Jingdezhen, China and Seto, Japan, have enriched his understanding of global ceramic traditions and the transmission of craft knowledge. These cross-cultural experiences inform a practice that bridges functionality, storytelling, and conceptual exploration.
Carr earned his BFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture in 2024 and his MFA from the University of Delaware in 2026.
Nicole Parker, Don't Worry Kid, It's Not Real
30" Tondo
Oil on panel
Explore our curated selection of artworks from current and past exhibitions.
All works listed are available for direct purchase online.
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
Wondering if a painting is the right fit for your space?
We can help by virtually installing any of our available artworks into your home or office. Our complimentary service allows you to experiment with a variety of sizes & styles, giving you an immediate sense of what works best for your unique taste.
Let us make your art selection process both easy & fun!
"Looking for Gross McCleaf? After 50 years in Rittenhouse Square, the longtime fixture of Philly’s art scene made the big leap to the 19127 in 2024. But there was no leaving behind its sterling reputation for greatness — or its roster of established, mid-career and emerging artists.
The work brightening up the walls of the gallery’s Manayunk showroom ranges from pop culture-inspired ceramics by Philly’s Tim Carr to multimedia canvases — weaving together oil paints, collaged materials and literal thread — by Haitian American artist Mickayel Thurin.
Good for: Museum-caliber contemporary art by regional talent
Vibe: Quietly prestigious yet approachable"
Gross McCleaf Gallery is proud to present Shifting, a solo exhibition of new mixed media works by Mickayel Thurin. Through painting, text, color, and collaged materials, Thurin creates layered compositions that examine the ongoing processes of personal evolution. Drawing from shadow work, healing practices, and lived experience, Thurin’s paintings function as both self-portraits and records of transition, tracing the shifting perspectives that accompany growth and change.
With new works on view this month, Gross McCleaf Gallery is delighted to welcome Timothy Carr to our roster of represented artists. Part vessel, part sculpture, part illustrated folklore, Timothy Carr’s ceramic works bring together traditional pottery techniques with contemporary visual culture. A Philadelphia-based ceramic artist, Carr combines wheel-thrown and hand-built forms with painting, illustration, and narrative imagery, creating works that blur the line between functional object and contemporary sculpture.
"Outside Philadelphia, Manayunk’s Gross McCleaf Gallery in collaboration with Stanek Gallery presents a show of paintings by Nicole Michaud titled Cloud Gazing. For a child of the 80s, entering this vibrant gallery space is as thrilling as finding a treasure box of old polaroids, blurry, at times dark, and profoundly familiar. The muted tones and shadowed spaces create a sense of nostalgia that is both sentimental and haunting all at once. The imagery feels deeply personal although difficult to place exactly; the way memories surface in fragments rather than complete narratives...."
