Ted Walsh: If Memory Serves

On View: October 23 - November 28, 2026

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 24, 1-4 PM

Location: Gross McCleaf Gallery, The Mill Studios, 123 Leverington Ave, Philadelphia, PA, 19127

Visitor parking is located in The Mill Studios lot, accessible from Leverington Avenue.

“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.”

- Ted Walsh

Gross McCleaf Gallery is pleased to present If Memory Serves, a solo exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Ted Walsh.

Based in southern New Jersey, Ted Walsh has exhibited throughout the United States for more than two decades. He earned his MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and has received numerous awards and artist residencies, including two Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grants.

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. From childhood, he has enjoyed imagining the spaces inside buildings, turning them around in his mind and considering what might exist beyond their visible exteriors. That curiosity extends throughout his work, where familiar subjects can take on an uneasy, sometimes humorous quality.

Walsh considers his subjects both as recognizable objects and as shapes within a painting, paying close attention to their scale, placement, and relationships to one another. As he explains, “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.”