MLMME18 Program

Mary Liz Memorial Masters Exhibition 18

Mary Liz Memorial M L M Masters Exhibition M E 18

Charles Emlen Serge Krupnov Karen Stabenow

April 23 – June 16, 2023

OFF THE WALL Dirty Frank’s offthewallgallery.org

NE Corner, 13th & Pine @otwdirtyfranks

Looking Ahead Thursday, May 25

Call for Entries

Deadline for Summer Juried Show

Summer Solstice ART CELEBRATING

June 18 — August 18

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SEASONS

For the time being, we enjoy the privilege of living and working in a climate that experiences all of the seasons and the qualities that make each distinctive. How does this opportunity influence your creative process? Are changes to our climate factoring into your work? In what ways can art-making further raise awareness about climate change?

16th Annual Summer Juried Show Opens Thursday, June 22, 7–10 pm Between now and our Thursday, May 25 entry deadline, we invite you to weigh in on these urgent questions with your outstanding art:

August 20 — September 29

2023 Midsummer Show Opens Thursday, August 24, 7–10 pm

October 1 — November 17 Thursday, October 19

2023 Autumn Invitational Show Opens Thursday, October 5, 7–10 pm THIS SHOW RUNS 6.18–8.18.23 Deadline entries toFrank’s UNDER $100 Off the for Wall Dirty

November 19 — December 29

18th Annual Juried Exhibition: UNDER $100 Opens Thursday, November 30, 7–10 p.m.

December 30, 2023 — January 12, 2024

New Year’s/Mummers Hiatus

• All media are welcome: 2D, 3D, multimedia and more.

• 2D work cannot exceed combined dimensions (height+width) of 48”, and 3D work must fit in our secure case.

• There is no entry fee and no hanging fee.

• Submit up to FIVE WORKS by emailing offthewallgallery@gmail.com six things: 1) high-quality images, 2) framed dimensions, 3) titles, 4) prices, 5) media, and 6) a single two-sentence statement about your submissions.

• If our jury chooses you, be prepared to deliver wired, ready-to-hang artwork to Off the Wall on Saturday, June 17.

offthewallgallery.org NE Corner, 13th & Pine Streets @otwdirtyfranks

ON COVER, clockwise from top left: Karen’s “Sky above Iceberg,” Serge’s “Kenny Basil” and “Athena,” Karen’s “Uncertainty,” Charles’ “Epi-genomic Heteromorph”

BEYOND THE WALL Not all 55 works selected for MLMME18 made it into the physical show. Seven paintings are available to shop and purchase online only at offthewallgallery.org. This work is in no way secondary. For example, Karen Stabenow’s paintings of her ancestral hometown, Aabenraa, Denmark, link to the main theme of her collection. “Denmark,” she explains,“has done much to halt the catastrophic impact of climate change and demonstrated what can be accomplished.”

In March 2005, months after the passing of our founding director, who guided the first quarter century of OFF THE WALL, the inaugural MARY LIZ MEMORIAL MASTERS EXHIBITION (MLMME) featured two supremely talented artists who had been associated with our space from the very start: Ellen Powell Tiberino and Jerome Robinson.

Forged in Steel and Oil

Nearly two decades later, the media Ellen and Jerry often embraced — oil paint and steel sculpture — are again front and center in MLMME18. The practitioners this time around may be brand new to our gallery, but the descriptor “supremely talented” still applies.

CHARLES EMLEN doubles down on his local debut in PROCESSES INTERSECTING SPACES, coming right back with another electric installation in our 3D space. This time the screens are down but technology remains the focal point, with eight major sculptures jockeying for attention — each deftly marrying the conceptual with the traditional.

The Wall becomes the domain of two artists who immediately ascend the ranks of the painters in our community. KAREN STABENOW, brush and palette knife in hand since the 1970s, returns with 17 works — and an emphasis on the theme that introduced her to us last year: the alarmingly rapid warming of the Arctic. (These works, in turn, may inspire fellow artists entering our upcoming juried show, SUMMER SOLSTICE.) SERGE KRUPNOV joins in with 23 more paintings, in his very first show in our space. Drawing inspiration from many sources, including the employees of his company, Serge’s art runs a wide gamut — riveting portraiture, paeans for spaces lost in time and lucid moments of transcendent, sometimes fleeting beauty.

The newly minted MARY LIZ FELLOWS join 36 other artists who have received this highest accolade in our community. These 48 works (as well as seven more available only online) ensure their places in this lofty company.

But we are always INCLUSIVE, not exclusive. In this spirit, the most important person we want in the room — to experience and re-experience an unforgettable show, now through June 16 — is YOU! Jody Sweitzer Curator

Togo Travalia Manager

Our Mary Liz Fellows Our newest MARY LIZ FELLOWS are in the company of some of the most accomplished artists to have graced our Wall and 3D case since OFF THE WALL opened our first show in December 1978.

2022 Jean Plough

Like Serge Krupnov, Jean Plough made her debut on the Wall as a Mary Liz Fellow.

But she stands apart in being the only artist to solo in this esteemed spotlight, with two rotations of her head-turning canvases last spring.

2021 No show due to COVID-19 pandemic 2020 Jim Biglan (2nd selection) Carla Liguori (2nd selection) Caitlin T. McCormack Lindsey Wavrek 2019 Elizabeth H. MacDonald Alice Meyer-Wallace (2nd selection)

Karl Olsen 2018 Jim Biglan Felix Giordano 2017 Jim Ferrell (2nd selection) Bob Jackson (3rd selection) Jesse Vandenburgh (2nd selection)

2016 Bob Gorchov Wendy Ploger Wayne W. Urffer (2nd selection)

2015 Leroy Forney Carla Liguori Kim Martin 2014 Russell Brodie Jon Laidacker Tecu’mish Munha’ke 2013 Robert Bohné Matthew Green Jim Montgomery (2nd selection)

2012 Phil Sumpter Marlise M. Tkaczuk Rick Wright 2011 Michael Guinn Alice Meyer-Wallace Jack Thompson

2010 David Guinn Jim Montgomery 2009 Bob Arufo Bob Jackson (2nd selection)

2008 Huston Ripley Jesse Vandenburgh Rob Willis 2007 Raphael Tiberino Wayne W. Urffer 2006 Clark DeLeon Jim Ferrell Bob Jackson 2005 Ellen Powell-Tiberino Jerome Robinson

Charles Emlen

I am fascinated by systems and technology, the way things work, evolution, massively large numbers, complex algorithms, the human brain, entropy, eternity, language, sex, disease, animals, economies, and the functional aspects of just about every part of this great, big, wonderful thing we call reality.

Most of my work does tend toward the technological, it’s true, but that’s just the way I choose to communicate.

What and how I think is largely based in science.

Call it a weakness. I can’t help but see the physical world as an endless field of size, scale, complexity and granularity.

My influences and interests include but are not limited to... iconography, entropy, claus oldenburg, srl, robert smithson, infiniti, zen/calculi, martin puryear, david therrien, symbolic logic, richard serra, evolution and, of course, sub-ethereal decay. (on cover)

“Epi-genomic Heteromorph” 27 x 14 x 14 950.

“Full Metal Contrivance” 27 x 10 x 12 700.

“Hard Top Telemeter” 20 x 10 x 10 800.

“Proto-psychometer” 26 x 10 x 10 700.

“Quadristatic Rangefinder” 31 x 11 x 11 950.

“Sequential Fiducial” 24 x 10 x10 850.

“Sonic Telestrator” 24 x 10 x 10 500. (at left)

“Special Method” 27 x 10 x 12 1000.

Visit Charlie online at emlen.com Follow him on Instagram @charlesemlen

universe is at once infinitely large and “ The infinitely small. From the farthest reaches of the cosmos to the most diminutively infinitesimal corner of sub-atomic space, a diverse complexity reigns.”

Serge Krupnov

All of Serge’s paintings are oil on panel, except for “Kenny Basil,” which is on canvas. (on cover)

“Athena” 14 x 14 200. (first page, top left)

“Barry and the Little One” 30 x 24 400.

“Blessings of the Night” 24.5 x 23.5 400.

“Dark Flower 1” 13 x 11 150.

“Dark Flower 2” 10.5 x 10 150.

“East River Drive 1” 13.5 x 13.5 200. (opposite page, middle right)

“End of Summer” 24 x 18 500.

(opposite page, middle left)

“Fourth of July” 15 x 16 200.

(first page, bottom)

“Goddess of Peace” 17.5 x 28 400.

“Hvezda” 20 x 16 200. (on cover)

“Kenny Basil” 24 x 24 400. (above right)

“Night Flight 1” 24 x 16 400. (above left)

“Night Flight 2” 24 x 20 300.

“Old Lithuania 1” 11.5 x 11.5 150. (opposite page, bottom)

“Old Lithuania 2” 12 x 36 300.

(first page, top right)

“Pikachu” 28 x 18 300.

“Security” 12 x 12 150.

“Sky” 11 x 11 150.

“Unexpected” 12 x 12 150.

“Waley Forge” 11.5 x 11.5 150.

This oil on panel triptych is 200. each or 500. for all three paintings: “Tulip 1” 12 x 12

“Tulip 2” 12 x 12

“Tulip 3” 12 x 12

Karen Stabenow

I have been painting all my life, self-taught and benefiting from courses along the way at places like PAFA, Cerulean Arts and Fleisher.

Oil is my medium of choice.

Over the last 15 years, my artwork has been dedicated to climate change and its devastating impacts on natural world.

Much of this time I have been painting scenes of the Arctic: melting ice, colonization of the land, tundra and the rapid warming destroying the natural world.

See more of Karen’s work at inliquid.com/artist/stabenow-karen Follow her on Instagram @karen_stabenow_artist

(opposite page, top)

“Arctic Shoreline 1” 25 x 29 oil on panel 500.

“Arctic Shoreline 2” 6 x 12 oil on panel 150.

“Arctic Tundra” 3 x 12 oil on panel 250.

“Ben Franklin Bridge” 24 x 24 oil on panel 350.

“Blue Wave” 9 x 16 oil on canvas 300. (above top)

“Everywhere with Everything” 18 x 20 oil on panel 500. (opposite page, bottom left) “Ice Floe 1” 13 x 13 oil on canvas 350. (opposite page, center right) “Ice Floe 2” 6 x 12 oil on panel 200. (opposite page, top left) “Melt Ponds on Iceberg” 13 x 13 oil on canvas 350. (above bottom) “Pahoa, Hawaii” 13 x 25 oil on panel 400.

“Seascape” 4.5 x 13 oil on panel 300.

“Seascape Abstract” 10.5 x 8.5 oil on panel 300. (on cover)

“Sky above Iceberg” 25 x 29 oil on canvas 500. (opposite page, bottom right)

“Train Wreck” 13.5 x 25.5 oil on panel 400.

“Truro, Cape Cod” 5.5 x 23.5 oil on panel 300. (on cover)

“Uncertainty” 9 x 19 oil on panel 300. (above center)

“Walt Whitman Bridge” 12 x 24 oil on panel 350.

Call for Entries

Summer Solstice ART CELEBRATING

4

SEASONS

For the time being, we enjoy the privilege of living and working in a climate that experiences all of the seasons and the qualities that make each distinctive. How does this opportunity influence your creative process? Are changes to our climate factoring into your work? In what ways can art-making further raise awareness about climate change?

Between now and our Thursday, May 25 entry deadline, we invite you to weigh in on these urgent questions with your outstanding art: • All media are welcome: 2D, 3D, multimedia and more.

• 2D work cannot exceed combined dimensions (height+width) of 48”, and 3D work must fit in our secure case.

• There is no entry fee and no hanging fee.

• Submit up to FIVE WORKS by emailing offthewallgallery@gmail.com six things: 1) high-quality images, 2) framed dimensions, 3) titles, 4) prices, 5) media, and 6) a single two-sentence statement about your submissions.

• If our jury chooses you, be prepared to deliver wired, ready-to-hang artwork to Off the Wall on Saturday, June 17.

THIS SHOW RUNS 6.18–8.18.23

Off the Wall Dirty Frank’s offthewallgallery.org NE Corner, 13th & Pine Streets @otwdirtyfranks