September Hours
By appointment through September 17
Regular hours resume September 18
Upcoming Exhibitions
September 18 – October 17, 2026
&
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."
Laura Vahlberg, Mall
9.25" x 14.5"
Oil on linen on board
Common Ground, Curated by Celia Reisman
Featuring Claudia Rilling, Lou Schellenberg, Laura Vahlberg, and Sophie C. White
September 18 – October 17, 2026
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.
Reisman asks, “How do we each look at a location and reinterpret it? What decisions do we make to capture and reference a specific place?” Through distinctly different approaches to composition, color, space, and form, the artists consider how the places we inhabit, observe, and remember shape the ways we see.
(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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"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"
