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Elizabeth Geiger

Borrowed Rhythms

March 1 - 25

Stuart Netsky

Walking Backward Into The Future

March 1 - 25

Short & Sweet III: Group Exhibition

Graham Cuddy, Henry Murphy, Kimi Pryor, Rhonda Wall and Nasir Young

March 1 - April 13

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Still Life After Van Schooten And Braque, 22" x 32", Oil On Linen

Elizabeth Geiger: Borrowed Rhythms

Elizabeth Geiger is a lifelong student of painted form and has focused on still life for decades. Geiger’s choice to adopt this subject matter has allowed her approach to representation to steadily advance into new territory, guided by the luminaries of art history.

In Borrowed Rhythms, Geiger has relaxed her fidelity to observed forms and colors. Embarking toward a world that embraces the rhythms, tensions and visual contradictions of Cubism, her new paintings playfully divide up rectangular canvases into simplified shapes. While the objects within the pictures remain nameable, their details and textures have been replaced with flat color or quick notations of pattern. These shifts in emphasis transform...

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The Toilette Of Venus, (After Boucher And Morris Louis), 2022, 13" x 19", Digitally Produced Print

Stuart Netsky: Walking Backward Into The Future

Gross McCleaf Gallery is pleased to present Stuart Netsky’s rich digital paintings and colorful sculptural assemblages in Walking Backward into the Future. Here, Netsky continues his innovative exploration of materials and themes well known from his seminal 1992 ICA exhibition, Time Flies. This earlier work, created during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, courageously explored the intersections of the HIV/AIDS epidemic with contemporary domestic life, popular culture, and Western art history. During Netsky’s retrospective in 2006, Rosenwald Wolf Gallery Curator Sid Sachs described Netsky as having a practice that, “operates at the nexus of social representation and sculpture, sexual cliché, and self-presentation. Echoing a variety of historical styles such as Pop Art, Pattern and Decoration, and color field, Netsky retains a crisp classical sense of craft and sense of humor that is deadly serious.” His latest work is no exception as Netsky continues with a clear-eyed honesty and queer sensibility.

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Kimi Pryor, Liminal, 12" x 9", Oil On Panel

Short & Sweet III: Group Exhibition

Gross McCleaf is pleased to present Short & Sweet III, a collection of mini-exhibitions featuring artworks by Graham Cuddy, Henry Murphy, Kimi Pryor, Rhonda Wall and Nasir Young.

Graham Cuddy finds pleasing color and design relationships in his quilt-like paintings. Reminiscent of domestic and functional Folk Art, his handkerchief-sized constructions involve delicately painted color blocks on natural linen, overlaid with distinct hand-stitched patterns of starbursts, grids, and curvilinear lines. 

Henry Murphy also takes cues from Folk Art and blends it with American Modernism in his representational paintings. His approach includes references as disparate as Grandma Moses and Fairfield Porter, Bill Trayor and Charles Burchfield. His pictures are sweet, painterly depictions of rural and urban locations. 

The city of Philadelphia is Nasir Young’s muse. His paintings are love letters to the many ordinary sights surrounding him, with every pavement crack and graffiti tag carefully represented. Each work is finely painted with care and honesty.

Kimi Pryor and Rhonda Wall each construct universes of their own. Pryor’s paintings conjure dreamlike projections of the subconscious with textured surfaces and foggy forms revealing potentially emotional narratives. Rhonda Wall’s hard-edged, cyberpunk paintings stand in contrast to Pryor’s softly rendered images. While the quizzical works seemingly depict futuristic worlds, Wall creates them in response...

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Elizabeth Geiger featured in John Thornton's Elizabeth Geiger, a Perceptual Painter Channels Cubism

Elizabeth Geiger is a superb still life painter and a member of the Perceptual Painters, a group known for working from direct observation. In her current show at Gross McCleaf, Liz is showing work with a distinctly Cubist inflection. I wanted to get to the roots of her apparent switch from perceptual to conceptual painting.

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Barbara Sosson featured in John Thornton's Artist Barbara Sosson, Sensuous Shapes and Mimicry

Artist, Designer, and PA Academy Fellowship President Barbara Sosson has a terrific show up at Gross McCleaf during the month of February 2023.

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