Gross McCleaf Gallery

Final Day to View

Two exhibitions centered around looking - through observation, memory, atmosphere, color, and process.

Thank you to everyone who visited, spent time with the work, attended events, and supported Christine Lafuente: In Visibility and Nicole Michaud: Cloud Gazing over the past month.

Both exhibitions remain on view through 4 pm today.

at Gross McCleaf Gallery
123 Leverington Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19127

Fridays & Saturdays, 11 - 4 PM

Featured:
1. Christine Lafuente, “Trawler in the Bay”, Oil on linen, 12” x 12”
2. Nicole Michaud, “K Bathing”, Oil on mylar, 16.5” x 17”
3. Christine Lafuente, “Cherry Blossoms”, Oil on linen, 12” x 12”
4. Nicole Michaud, “Rain”, Oil on mylar, 5” x 5.5”
5. Christine Lafuente, “Boat at Dawn”, Oil on mounted canvas, 10” x 10”
6. Nicole Michaud, “Grass Bed”, Oil on mylar, 22” x 23”

We are thrilled to see Nasir Young’s work featured this month in both the University of Delaware MFA Thesis Exhibition and Nowhere/Everywhere, his first solo exhibition with Uffner & Liu in New York, NY.

Drawing from observations gathered while traveling, skateboarding, and moving through cities, Young’s paintings explore the everyday details of the built environment: storefronts, signage, discarded objects, and places that often go unnoticed. Rather than focusing on recognizable landmarks, he is drawn to the in-between spaces and visual details that make a place feel familiar, lived in, and distinctly its own.

“There is an ability to read a landscape you’ve never been in and find belonging.” - Nasir Young

Young’s work will also be featured next month at Elsewhere Art Fair at YOWIE in Philadelphia, organized by Blah Blah Gallery.

Featured:
1. “Expired”, Oil on canvas, 30” x 24”
2. “Another Man’s Trash”, Oil on panel, 12” x 12”
3. “Sight Seeing”, Oil on panel, 10” x 18” (Two panels)

Available to Collect via Gross McCleaf Gallery.
[email protected] | 215.665.8138

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Two exhibitions, two distinct approaches to perception, memory, and atmosphere.

Nicole Michaud’s oil on mylar works drift between image and recollection, while Christine Lafuente’s paintings build light and form through color, gesture, and observation.

Their exhibitions are on view through this Saturday, May 30.

Featured:
(Slide 1) Nicole Michaud, “Quiet Memory”, Oil on mylar, 6” × 6”
(Slide 3) Christine Lafuente, “Peaches, Cherries, and Peonies”, Oil on linen, 16” x 16”

View the artworks online through grossmccleaf.com, or the links in bio.

Final weekend to experience Christine Lafuente: In Visibility!

Featuring a few installation views from the gallery, including paintings that move between tabletop still lifes, Brooklyn rooftops, interiors, and coastal Maine.

On view through May 30

at Gross McCleaf Gallery
123 Leverington Ave, Philadelphia, PA

Fridays & Saturdays, 11–4 PM
or by appointment

Inside Christine Lafuente’s studio, forms sharpen, dissolve, and reappear through brushwork, carrying traces of light, atmosphere, and the physical qualities of paint itself.

Final two weekends to view Christine Lafuente: In Visibility

On view through May 30

at Gross McCleaf Gallery
123 Leverington Ave, Philadelphia, PA

Fridays & Saturdays, 11–4 PM
or by appointment

Save the date for…

Mickayel Thurin: Shifting
June 5 - July 11
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 6

at Gross McCleaf Gallery
123 Leverington Ave, Philadelphia, PA

Through painting, text, color, and layered materials, Mickayel Thurin creates deeply personal works that explore motherhood, spirituality, emotional processing, and self-realignment. Her paintings move between intimate reflection and collective experience, channeling emotional states through saturated color, expressive figures, and handwritten text.

“My work discusses ideas about motherhood, spirituality, and consciousness as it intersects the bounds of dimensions and space time. Art is my way of processing experiences, translating raw feelings into visual form.” - Mickayel Thurin

Featured:
“Realignment”, 2026, Acrylic and decorative paper on stretched canvas, 40” x 30”

Like cloud gazing itself, Nicole Michaud’s paintings never fully settle into a single image.

“My work is concerned both with the external landscape, the spaces we live in, and the internal landscape, the space within ourselves.” - Nicole Michaud

In Michaud’s paintings, landscapes, figures, and reflections hover somewhere between observation and imagination, revealed through layered fields of translucent oil color on mylar and canvas.

Stanek Gallery presents
Nicole Michaud: Cloud Gazing
On view through May 30
at Gross McCleaf Gallery

Part of the Stanek Gallery | Outside the Box collaborative program.

“I am drawn to views with a poetic relationship between human scale and far horizons.”

Christine Lafuente’s seascapes hold onto shifting conditions of light, atmosphere, and distance. Forms emerge gradually through layered passages of oil color, hovering between recognition and abstraction as the eye moves across the surface.

Christine Lafuente: In Visibility
On view through May 30

at Gross McCleaf Gallery
123 Leverington Ave, Philadelphia

Fridays & Saturdays
11 - 4 pm
or by appointment

Inquire: [email protected] | 215-665-8138

Featured:
1. “Across the Shore”, Oil on linen, 40” x 30”
2. “Mountains and Clouds, San Juan”, Oil on mounted linen, 12″ x 16
3. “Harbor in the Mist”, Oil on linen, 16″ x 20″

Brooklyn, translated through brushwork and light.

Christine Lafuente, “Fog and Snow, Brooklyn Steeples”,
Oil on mounted linen, 9″ x 12″

& “Winter Afternoon in Brooklyn”
Oil on mounted canvas, 9″ x 12″

Christine Lafuente’s solo exhibition, “In Visibility” is on view through May 30.

at Gross McCleaf Gallery
123 Leverington Ave, Philadelphia

Fridays & Saturdays,
11 - 4 pm

Inquire: [email protected] | 215-665-8138

An homage to all the little things.

Featuring small-scale artworks throughout the gallery.

Fridays & Saturdays,
11 - 4 pm

Gross McCleaf Gallery
123 Leverington Ave, Philadelphia

Inquire: [email protected] | 215-665-8138

Works included:
1. Susan Moore, “Faccia 79”, Mixed media on panel, 5.75” x 5.75”
2. Nicole Michaud, “Touch”, Oil on mylar, 5” x 5”
3. Nasir Young, “The Future is Here”, Oil on panel, 4” x 4”
4. Thomas Paquette, “Wilderness Falls III”, Oil on panel, 7” x 5”
5. Nicole Parker, “Give Me A Place To Be”, Oil on mounted linen, 12” x 12”
6. Christine Lafuente, “Sunset Sky Toward NY Harbor”, Oil on linen mounted, 8” x 8”
7. Varvàra Fern, “Looking”, Resin, acrylic paint, 2” x 3” x 7.5”
8. Ann Lofquist, “North Branch, Foundry Hill” (MA), Oil on panel, 5.5” x 16”
9. Nasir Young, “Location Sample 02”, Oil on panel, 3” x 2”

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