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Galleries: Going off script with a show called 'Scripted'

If "Scripted" strikes you as an unusually cutting-edge exhibition for Gross McCleaf Gallery, no need to worry that this familiar outpost of contemporary realist painting is changing its focus. It's summer and the gallery's director, Sharon Ewing, decided to let her assistant director, Todd Keyser, a painter who just received his master's in fine art from the Maryland Institute College of Art, stir things up.

Cora Cohen , in "Nomad II," above, uses broad brushstrokes of paint and pieces of wood veneer that don't quite align to play with ideas of absence and presence. The piece is at Gross McLeaf along with Matt Pinney's "Miranda," right, a painted figure on a photo of a building, merging fact and fiction.
Cora Cohen , in "Nomad II," above, uses broad brushstrokes of paint and pieces of wood veneer that don't quite align to play with ideas of absence and presence. The piece is at Gross McLeaf along with Matt Pinney's "Miranda," right, a painted figure on a photo of a building, merging fact and fiction.Read more
    by Edith Newhall, For The Inquirer | Columnist
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