November 14–December 27, 2026
GRO Artist Mary Ann Leff shows paintings—In Relation: An Exploration of Connections—as an exploration of relationships. Dominated by a large diptych and showing in the small and intimate Annex gallery, the paintings, like people, enhance each other through closeness. With dark grounds and bold color, internal forms push and pull through space.
Leff writes, “I focus on how each mark, line, shape, and color relates to the others. It is as if the parts look at each other to determine their best match. What will dominate or recede? What will complement or be discordant? What element is needed to bind the piece together? What will fade and what will linger. And how will this painting relate to every other painting I have made, seen, or studied. Often, while I’m painting or have just finished a piece, a phrase that seems autobiographical comes to me and becomes the title. The largest piece is titled Some May Think She Had Lost Her Way. These phrases that seem to come from my unconscious tell me that each painting is really a self-portrait, and the final relationship may be between myself and the viewer.”