2026 CALENDAR OF EXHIBITIONS

April 4 - May 3, 2026

SUSAN BENIGNI LANDIS
WINDING THROUGH THE PENNSYLVANIA WOODLANDS
Pennsylvania offers Benigini Landis an endless subject — its woodlands, rolling hills, and wandering waters filling her canvases in both plein air and studio works. Yet her eye was sharpened far from home. Landscape painting studies in Italy and Ireland, along with travels across the United States, gave her a broader vocabulary for seeing and rendering the familiar beauty of her own backyard.
That depth of experience shows in her recognition. Landis has exhibited widely in juried shows across Pennsylvania, New York, and up and down the East Coast, earning awards that span the breadth of her practice — from Plein Air and Impressionism to her work in clay — including several recent Best of Show honors.
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April 4 - May 3, 2026

BARBARA YERACE  
SACRED WILDIFE: BEADED SCULPTURES
Yerace's work exists at the intersection of traditional craft and urgent environmental concern, each piece a quiet but insistent invitation to consider our relationship with the natural world. Working in a painstaking process of hand-sewing or carefully adhering glass beads to fiberglass screen or pre-formed animal figures, she transforms patient, meditative labor into something larger than its materials.

​The work serves as a meditation of animal essence and their significance in our shared ecosystem, with the intention to bring us back to our connection to nature.
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​June 6 - July 5, 2026

TERRY McKELVEY
THE STATE OF THINGS
"I have long had a tortured relationship with the genre of still life painting, which comes from my deep-seated suspicion that the art world generally dismisses still life as an irrelevant
contemporary subject. While the genre clearly offers aesthetic engagement for both painter and audience, it’s easy to assume that it lacks social or conceptual depth. During the 20th century, still life painting was most frequently recognized as a vehicle for exploring and expanding formal concerns: color, space, light, and surface.

Nonetheless, a contingent of exceptional contempo-rary painters continue to interrogate still life and to push the boundaries of what it can be. Ultimately, good painting justifies itself, regardless of subject. Every day that I step into my studio, I feel the need to justify my existence by painting something that will be relevant to someone other than myself."
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​June 6 - July 5, 2026

NICOLE SINCILINE  
INTERPRETING CLARITY 
Sinciline's large-scale figurative oil paintings depict private spaces skewed by angled perspective, sharp value contrasts, and contorted figures — a visual language for emotional unrest. Her larger works often take the form of diptychs, pairing central narrative paintings with side panels of malfunctioning objects and quiet disorder, together holding the full weight of psychological imbalance within a single composition. Smaller works approach the same territory through cropped, ambiguous spaces and a muted palette that infuses each scene with unease. Throughout, surface is as expressive as image — built up and scraped back repeatedly, color developing intuitively, meaning accumulating in layers beneath the paint, waiting for the viewer willing to look long enough to find it.
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August 1 - September 6, 2026

CRARY PERMANENT COLLECTION
​Details to come  

October 3 - November 8, 2026

ANNE CUTRI 
TIMELESSNESS​
Timelessness is an exhibition born from grief. Following the loss of her younger sister in the shadow of the pandemic, Anne Cutri turned to art-making as a path through mourning — and found herself on a far longer journey than she anticipated. Drawing on SoulCollage®, dream journaling, and Jungian art-based research, she followed her images inward and outward simultaneously, across time, mythology, and tradition. Stonehenge and the Great Serpent Mound, astronomy and physics, and the contemplative threads running through Islamic, Christian, Judaic, Buddhist, and Hindu traditions all became waypoints in an intuitive exploration of grief, interconnectedness, and what endures.
The result is a body of work — lavishly painted, deeply researched, and quietly transformative — that maps one woman's passage from loss to wholeness. Cutri presented this research at the Creative Psyche and Arts Based Research transdisciplinary conference in London, and is currently seeking publication for the accompanying book.
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October 3 - November 8, 2026

LEE LANIER 
OLD STORIES MADE NEW​
Drawing from mythological tales, religious parables, historical biographies, and literary characters, Lee Lanier's work breathes new life into stories that have endured for centuries, combining posed figures, symbolic objects both archaic and modern, and original prose or poetry to deepen the familiar rather than simply illustrate it. His models represent a wide range of ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, and his audiences reflect that inclusivity — children and the elderly, local residents and international travelers, people who arrive knowing the story and those encountering it for the first time.
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December 5, 2026 -  January 3, 2027

THOMAS PAQUETTE
COLORS RECLAIMED
Warren artist Thomas Paquette has earned wide acclaim for his landscape paintings, which grace private collections, museums across the country, and U.S. embassies around the world. His work is defined by richly applied paint and a bold, often surprising use of color that draws viewers into a particular corner of nature, caught in just the right light.
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That generosity with paint has an unexpected consequence: vibrant mixtures left over that have no conceivable use for the current painting. Rather than discarding "mountains" of paint, Paquette began to "reclaim" these occasional tranches of color by using them in nonrepresentational works, where color and form become the sole subjects, rather than the image of a landscape. The results are a large collection of gratifying abstracts that represent conservation in action — a fitting complement to the conservation message present in much of Paquette's landscape work.
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December 5, 2026 -  January 3, 2027

JOSEPH GRICE
WE. WHO FLY
This exhibition features birds of the northeast; portraits that embody both the incredibly diverse fauna of our region, and a diversity of human emotions and ideals. Using the classic literary device anthropomorphism, each individual animal represents human characteristics we hold dear or aspire to. Ascribing these sacred qualities to each creature imbues it with a unique spirit worthy of reverence and respect, akin to a deity. This symbolism balances the traits that make us uniquely human, with a closer
connection to the planet we call home.
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February 7 - March 8, 2026

RAYMOND CARBALLADA 
THE POETRY OF FIRST LIGHT

This photographic series captures the dynamic interplay of the fleeting light of sunrise on the sky, clouds, and an urban skyline—transforming a routine cityscape into a contemplative study of light, time, and place.
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Created during each morning's golden hour in May 2024, shot from the exact same point on the Philadelphia Art Museum Steps, overlooking the city's skyline, I produced this series in black and white to focus the viewer on the foundation of a photograph's beauty—the quality of light.

The monochrome images encourage attention to the subtle gradations, textural details, and tones light creates, revealing how, while all other elements remain constant, the ever-changing light of each day's sunrise sculpts an entirely new and distinct image each day.

CRAIG BLACKLOCK

MARC MUENCH

FOCUSED ON NATURE

Originally shown in “Wilderness at 50”, the exhibition that filled the galleries of the Crary in 2014,
​celebrating the 50th anniversary of the federal Wilderness Act, we are pleased to share them with the community as part of the gallery's permanent collection.