On View:
October 23 – November 28, 2026
Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 24 | 1-4 PM
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Gallery Hours:
Fridays & Saturdays, 11 – 4 PM, or by appointment.
215-665-8138 / Inquiries: info@grossmccleaf.com
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The gallery entrance is located on Baker Street. Visitor parking is available in The Mill Studios lot, with the lot entrance on Leverington Avenue.
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Ted Walsh, Daydream House
24" x 18"
Oil on canvas
Ted Walsh: If Memory Serves
October 23 - November 28, 2026
Gross McCleaf Gallery is pleased to present If Memory Serves, a solo exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Ted Walsh. Based in southern New Jersey, Ted Walsh has exhibited throughout the United States for more than two decades. He earned his MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and has received numerous awards and artist residencies, including two Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grants.
Rooted in the American realist tradition, Walsh’s paintings and drawings draw on a lifelong fascination with buildings, landscapes, familiar objects, and the stories they might hold. From childhood, he has enjoyed imagining the spaces inside buildings, turning them around in his mind and considering what might exist beyond their visible exteriors. That curiosity extends throughout his work, where familiar subjects can take on an uneasy, sometimes humorous quality.
Walsh considers his subjects both as recognizable objects and as shapes within a painting, paying close attention to their scale, placement, and relationships to one another. As he explains, “The physical character of the work is equally important to me. I build, scrape, sand, draw into, and repaint surfaces until they have the quality I’m looking for.”
Lisa S. Roberts, From the Garden
21.5" x 17"
Cut paper collage
Lisa S. Roberts: Quiet Home
October 23 - November 28, 2026
Gross McCleaf Gallery is pleased to present Quiet Home, a solo exhibition of new cut paper collages by Lisa S. Roberts. Originally trained as an architect, Roberts spent more than three decades working in graphic and product design, creating designs for home furnishings, textiles, and everyday objects. Throughout her career, her fascination with color and architectural space led her to develop a distinctive practice in cut-paper collage.
Working with surgical scissors, an X-ACTO knife, and hundreds of sheets of colored paper, Lisa constructs intricate compositions one layer at a time. Her process combines the precision of architectural drawing with an intuitive approach to color, shape, and form. In Quiet Home, Roberts turns her attention to domestic interiors and the objects that give them character. Books, furniture, artwork, flowers, and a familiar black cat populate colorful, carefully constructed spaces. Through these arrangements, Roberts explores the personality of a home and the ways in which everyday objects can suggest the lives of those who inhabit it.
(Right) Douglas Martenson, Wildflowers
24" x 18"
Oil on wood
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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
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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, Reisman’s paintings transform familiar neighborhoods, keeping elements of the original view while freely rearranging and reimagining them.
Presented alongside Street Views, Common Ground brings together paintings by Claudia Rilling, Lou Schellenberg, Laura Vahlberg, and Sophie C. White, four artists who share an interest in architecture within the landscape. Curated by Celia Reisman, the exhibition creates a compelling opportunity to compare and contrast the many ways artists translate place into personal expression, while expanding our understanding of what a place can be.
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"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"
