BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER

The OFF THE WALL INVITATIONAL has been a staple of our calendar since 2010. It’s a significant opportunity to showcase some of our top-selling and award-winning artists. Most often, we have focused on those who are newer to our community and who have built a fast following through our juried shows over the past year.

But what happens when the INVITATIONAL goes on hiatus — in this case, for two years?

The answer is: you organize and mount a brand-new edition that represents the strongest possible assembly of talent. And who better to oversee such a grand orchestration than our curator, JODY SWEITZER?!

Rather than draw from just 12 months, she was able to consider a veritable constellation of artists from a wider range of shows — and to delve into and curate all their available work in the most creative ways.

The results are head-turning.

In some cases, we see a consummate professional working in a single medium, such as TIM JOYCE, a self-taught master in oil on canvas and born colorist, who has quickly ascended to our top echelon of painters. Or we hone in on a specific a body of work, like the wryly observant printmaking of RONAN MCSORLEY, cutting deeper still than you would a lithography stone.

In other cases, it is a journey farther into an opus. Cases in point: the paintings of RICHARD J. O’BRIEN, whose tongue-in-cheek titles open the door wider to his free-form art-making and imaginative spirit, or a riveting set of J.A. PANETTA prints, steeped equally in art history and a sensibility uniquely her own.

We witness new bodies of work from artists we’re just getting to know: trace drawings of webcam models on polyester film and unabashedly playful assemblages from JAKE FOSTER…inventively art-directed photography and two-sided portraiture from HOLLAND FOX…both of whom we first knew as gifted painters.

We get to revisit the whimsical worlds of unhinged Screamers (CEE HEARD), augmented by two pristine watercolors from the streets of South Philly, and sketchbook/zine work in progress, paired with one wistful and arresting self-portrait (LILY WISE).

It’s the caliber of work that will naturally bring us back to the Wall and 3D case, time and again, from now through the final hours of the show, late in the evening of Friday the 13th of November. It’s work we share for now. It’s art we won’t soon forget. It’s here for you. Please return whenever the spirit moves you — and make sure to bring others with you. Thank you and enjoy.

TO VIEW, SHOP AND PURCHASE ARTWORK, please go to the menu and select an artist.

NOTA BENE TO ONLINE BUYERS: While we requisition in-person purchases on an almost-daily basis, it is still possible that you may purchase something on this website that may have already sold in our Gallery. We will make every effort to avoid this circumstance.

Richard J. O'Brien - WHERE TRIPLES GO TO DIE.jpeg

Ronan McSorley - BEHOLD THE KNIFE THAT SEVERED OUR FRIENDSHIP.jpeg

J.A. Panetta - AND MORE...LOST GIRLS.jpg

Richard J. O'Brien - THE NEXT TIME THE PHONE RINGS.jpeg

Ronan McSorley - OLD MEN DIE (AND CHILDREN SOON FORGET).jpeg

Ronan McSorley - WHOEVER READS BOURGEOIS NEWSPAPERS BECOMES BLIND AND DEAF (AFTER JOHN HEARTFIELD).jpeg

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