Timothy Carr
On View:
Opening Reception & Artist Talk:
Saturday, June 6, 1 - 4 pm
Introducing Timothy Carr
New Represented Artist | New Works On View
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Choosing My Peace No Matter What
40" x 30"
Mixed media on canvas
Mickayel Thurin: Shifting
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Saturday, June 6, 1-4 pm
June 5 - July 11
Gross McCleaf Gallery is proud to present Shifting, a new body of work by Mickayel Thurin. Through painting, text, color, and layered materials, Thurin creates deeply personal works that explore motherhood, spirituality, emotional processing, and self-realignment. Her paintings move between intimate reflection and shared emotional experience, channeling emotional states through saturated color, expressive figures, stitched textures, and handwritten text.
Drawing from shadow work, healing practices, and lived experience, Thurin’s paintings function as both self-portraits and affirmations. Phrases emerge across bodies and backgrounds like internal dialogue, while recurring symbols including eyes, stars, constellations, and fragmented patterns create a visual language rooted in intuition, vulnerability, and transformation.
Rather than resolving emotion into fixed narratives, the works remain open, layered, and in motion. Through collage, acrylic,fabric, paper, and text, Thurin allows contradiction and becoming to coexist, holding fear beside courage, exhaustion beside care, and self-protection beside visibility.
The Last Rodeo
14” x 14” x 71” (Including pedestal)
Stoneware, underglaze, glaze, luster decals, faux cowhide, and recycled pallet wood
Introducing Timothy Carr
New Represented Artist | New Works On View
Gross McCleaf Gallery is delighted to welcome Timothy Carr to our roster of represented artists.
Part vessel, part sculpture, part illustrated folklore, Timothy Carr's ceramic works bring together traditional pottery techniques with contemporary visual culture. A Philadelphia-based ceramic artist, Carr combines wheel-thrown and hand-built forms with painting, illustration, and narrative imagery, creating works that blur the line between functional object and contemporary sculpture.
“From the earliest form of human writing on cuneiform tablets, to the porcelain dental fillings in our teeth, to the tile lining on the exterior of rocket-ships that blast off into space, ceramics not only serve a function but also captures a story.” - Timothy Carr
Ancient forms become surfaces for graffiti, pop culture, personal narrative, and references drawn from his Swiss-Canadian upbringing, family history, and life in Philadelphia. His studies in Philadelphia, alongside residencies in Jingdezhen, China and Seto, Japan, have enriched his understanding of global ceramic traditions and the transmission of craft knowledge. These cross-cultural experiences inform a practice that bridges functionality, storytelling, and conceptual exploration.
Carr earned his BFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture in 2024 and his MFA from the University of Delaware in 2026.
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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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