Thursday, May 25 Deadline for Summer Juried Show
June 18 — August 18 16th Annual Summer Juried Show Opens Thursday, June 22, 7–10 pm
August 20 2023 Midsummer Show
September 29 Opens Thursday, August 24, 7–10 pm
October 1 2023 Autumn Invitational Show
November 17 Opens Thursday, October 5, 7–10 pm
THIS SHOW RUNS 6.18 – 8.18.23
Thursday, October 19 Deadline for entries to UNDER $100
November 19 18th Annual Juried Exhibition: UNDER $100
December 29 Opens Thursday, November 30, 7–10 p.m.
December 30, 2023 New Year’s/Mummers Hiatus
January 12, 2024
ON COVER, clockwise from top left: Karen’s “Sky above Iceberg,” Serge’s “Kenny Basil” and “Athena,” Karen’s “Uncertainty,” Charles’ “Epi-genomic Heteromorph”
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. 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 Togo Travalia Curator ManagerOur 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
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
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.
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
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
The universe is at once infinitely large and infinitely small. From the farthest reaches of the cosmos to the most diminutively infinitesimal corner of sub-atomic space, a diverse complexity reigns.”
(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.
All of Serge’s paintings are oil on panel, except for “Kenny Basil,” which is on canvas.This oil on panel triptych is 200. each or 500. for all three paintings:
“Tulip 1”
“Tulip 2”
“Tulip 3” 12 x 12 12 x 12 12 x 12
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.
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 .
