A Round Thing (SOLD)
8" x 10"
Oil On Panel
Bowl of Eggs (SOLD)
8.25" x 13"
Oil On Panel
Bowl Of Eggs (SOLD)
5" x 12"
Oil On Panel
Miss Bellwether and Mr. Bender (SOLD)
35" x 47"
Oil On Panel
The Red Barn (SOLD)
11" x 15"
Oil On Paper
“I don’t want to be interesting, I want to be good.”
– Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Connotation, 23" x 29", Oil On Canvas
"I believe paintings are objects which tell their own stories. It is important to me that viewers see my work in whatever way they find most useful.
My work often begins with familiar things—buildings, figures, animals, objects, skies. I am interested in pictures that feel as though they are setting a scene, although what has happened, or what might happen, is often left unresolved. Home and place, memory, history, isolation, humor, uneasiness, and the passage of time can all find their way in. Sometimes the starting point is simply a visual relationship, an object, a mood, or an image I can’t stop thinking about.
My work is rooted in the American realist tradition, but I tend to build pictures in a more abstract way. I think about large shapes, intervals, scale, empty space, and the placement of things within the rectangle. I like it when the things I depict work in more than one way—as recognizable subjects, but also as shapes within a composition.
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. Painting and drawing each allow for their own kind of directness. Ultimately, I like pictures that feel familiar but slightly unsettled, while leaving room for viewers to find something of their own in them." - Ted Walsh
Five Buckets in Window Light, 12" x 16", Oil On Paper
Sleeping Mother, 9" x 15", Oil On Panel
About the Artist
Ted Walsh is an artist based in southern New Jersey. For more than two decades, he has exhibited throughout the United States, and his work is held in private collections in the United States and abroad. He earned his MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
Walsh has received two Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grants and First Prize in Painting at Art of the State at The State Museum of Pennsylvania. He has twice served as artist-in-residence at Gettysburg National Military Park and was selected as the inaugural artist-in-residence at First State National Historical Park. He has also been an artist-in-residence at Rocky Neck Art Colony in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Jupiter, 60" x 60", Oil On Panel
Elizabeth Johnson: Looking at "A Place to Wait", I wonder if your invented landscapes almost always start with drawings on site? Or are the buildings most often invented? Does the possibility of being watched by someone inside them balance your external gaze implied though focused rendering and painting?
Ted Walsh: This house is based on a similar house from another painting, both originally starting as snow landscapes. One winter day a few years ago, I did a lot of driving around and working from the landscape...For a big painting like this I figure it out with several sketches in the sketchbook, but they are not always direct sketches from the landscape.
Sometimes I lean into something like a watching narrative. It may be a hint of a figure in a window, or the landscape, or a general trespassing vibe, like feeling you’re somewhere you’re not supposed to be. But usually, it’s less about being watched, and more about something like pacing or accretion. I like the idea of little vernacular spaces formed over a long time. I like the heating oil tank and the chimney tucked in the crook of the two parts of the building in this painting.
Gross McCleaf Gallery is pleased to present If Memory Serves, a solo exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Ted Walsh. 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. That curiosity extends throughout his work, where architectural forms and object portraits suggest stories that reach beyond what is immediately visible.
Gross McCleaf Gallery is also proud 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.
Jeffrey Reed: Of Time, Light and Change
Gross McCleaf Gallery is pleased to present Of Time, Light and Change, a solo exhibition of new paintings by artist Jeffrey Reed. Attuned to the interplay of atmosphere, space, and light, Reed continues his practice of capturing the beauty of familiar landscapes through meticulous observation and thoughtful exploration. For over twenty-five years, Jeffrey Reed has returned to County Mayo, Ireland, painting and teaching at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, his newest works thoughtfully capturing the subtle beauty and shifting atmosphere of Ireland’s coastal landscape.
Life, Still – Group Exhibition, Curated by Douglas Martenson
At first glance, Life, Still suggests the classical still life—carefully composed objects held in quiet contemplation. Yet, the title holds deeper layers of meaning, much like the paintings in this exhibition. It speaks to the act of pausing in stillness, engaging with the everyday, and reflecting on the persistence of life itself. Stillness does not mean stagnation; rather, it is a moment of attention, an embrace of presence, and a connection to what endures.
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“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Gross McCleaf Gallery invites you to experience the magic of summer with a group exhibition titled Summer Playlist. Curated like a finely tuned mixtape, this vibrant selection of works explores seasonal themes of celebration, relaxation, and engagement with nature.
Elizabeth Johnson: Studying your work, I feel a strong pull toward surrealism, movies, and dreams. What inspires you to put a composition together? Is there a story or mood that gets things going?
Ted Walsh: All kinds of things inspire my compositions. Things I happen to see. Things I’m inspired by, literature, music, other art. A technical painting idea, an abstract compositional idea, a theme from an older painting I want to revisit. A story, a mood. ––It could be any mix of these. Anything really...
“I want to work directly with the subject as much as possible. Most of my painting sites are familiar to me. My goal is to keep finding new subjects to paint, in the city and elsewhere, with a beautiful sense of light and some bit of life.”
- Larry Francis
Gross McCleaf Gallery is pleased to feature a solo exhibition by Larry Francis, a much-beloved painter of the Philadelphia regional scene. Francis is a thirty-year veteran of the Gross McCleaf roster and has consistently painted engaging, everyday scenes of identifiable neighborhood locales. You Are Here is another achievement in his pursuit, featuring over twenty new landscape and cityscape paintings of sites mostly within fifty miles of the Schuylkill.
