BEYOND THE WALL

Not all 55 works selected for MLMME18 made it into the physical show. Seven paintings are available to shop and purchase online only at offthewallgallery.org. This work is in no way secondary. For example, Karen Stabenow’s paintings of her ancestral hometown, Aabenraa, Denmark, link to the main theme of her collection. “Denmark,” she explains,“has done much to halt the catastrophic impact of climate change and demonstrated what can be accomplished.”

In March 2005, months after the passing of our founding director, who guided the first quarter century of OFF THE WALL , the inaugural MARY LIZ MEMORIAL MASTERS EXHIBITION (MLMME) featured two supremely talented artists who had been associated with our space from the very start: Ellen Powell Tiberino and Jerome Robinson. Nearly two decades later, the media Ellen and Jerry often embraced — oil paint and steel sculpture — are again front and center in MLMME18 . The practitioners this time around may be brand new to our gallery, but the descriptor “supremely talented” still applies.