Delaware artist Rolando Corpus‘s oil paintings were on view at The Grand Opera House in Wilmington for last month’s Art Loop. Several Wilmington locations were featured in the paintings including the Van Buren Street Bridge, Delaware Art Museum, and the fountain in Brandywine Park.
Larissa Ranbom‘s small works, on view at The Delaware Contemporary for We Can Use The Rain, encourage a closer look. The embroidered paintings are also a reminder to take time to look more closely at the natural world around us.
From the museum:
We Can Use The Rain is an exploration of growth through the year, from the redbuds in early spring through the vibrance of summer to the geometry of autumn milkweed pods and cacti grown indoors in the winter. It’s not only carefully tended garden flowers that are sustained by rain, but also the honeysuckle and dogwood that otherwise thrive with little attention. While they may not be mobile, they still change rapidly, taking the spotlight for a while and then fading to be supplanted by the next to bloom.
The flora (and fungus) on display were found in and around Wilmington – whether in a meticulously curated botanical garden or greenhouse, greeting passersby from a front yard, in an out of the way spot in a park, or growing enthusiastically in a neglected patch by the highway. The viewer is encouraged to consider how what grows around us reflects the communities we cultivate. Stitch by stitch, these works closely examine plant life, remembering that no matter where we are, we can all use the rain.
This exhibition is on view until 10/31/26.
Keith Garcia, “Stand Strong” 2026, Acrylic on canvas
MaxxMoses, “Heads on Fire”, 2008
Harrison Doyle, “The Medium is the Message”, 2026
“Hands Up”, 2014, by Leon Rainbow, who also curated the exhibition
Currently at Delaware Art Museum, Walls of Resistance: Art as Activism celebrates the work of more than seventeen artists whose work incorporates aspects of graffiti.
From the museum:
Walls of Resistance: Art as Activism explores graffiti as more than a visual language. Graffiti is a way of claiming space, celebrating identity, and giving form to unheard voices. The exhibition brings together artists with a range of experiences and styles, and it considers how creativity can respond to the world around us. Graffiti can incorporate political statements, personal stories, and cultural pride, or can simply be the act of leaving a mark. Walls of Resistance invites each artist to interpret the theme of graffiti culture in their own way. We invite viewers to consider these varied types of expression and how each can encourage curiosity and inspiration.
The exhibition will be on view until 10/25/26.
This Saturday (10/17) the museum is hosting the 4th Annual Hip Hop Cultural Summit: Art as Activism, presented in partnership with AllHipHop and Guerrilla Republik in conjunction with Stop the Violence Coalition, Inc.
From the museum about the event:
This free, all-ages event brings together artists, Hip Hop legends, performers, and community leaders to celebrate Hip Hop’s five elements and explore its deep connections to creative expression, activism, and social change.
This year we’re highlighting Hip Hop as both a cultural force and a tool for activism. DelArt welcomes Hip Hop legend, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, and Public Enemy co-founder Chuck D, along with Darryl “Cornbread” McCray, the Philadelphia native widely recognized as a pioneer of modern graffiti. Experience dance performances, live DJ sets, an MC Battle, panel discussions, book signings, vendors, community conversations, and more throughout the Museum.
Matt Kresling, “The Devil’s Bathtub”, 2026
Egevaerk, “Waiting for the Storm”, and “Weather Change” 2026, both taken on the High Coast in Sweden
Matt Kresling, “Glacial Till Revealed by the Erosion of the Drumlin at Chimney Bluffs, Near Lake Ontario”, 2026
At the Edge, on view at John William Gallery in Wilmington as part of a collaboration between the Wendell Castle Workshop, HB381 Gallery, and the Wilmington Film Festival, includes photographs by filmmaker Matt Kresling and the Danish artists and furniture designers Mette Bentzen and Lasse Kristensen, also known as Egevaerk. The artists photographed natural formations found in both Scandinavia and the Great Lakes region near the workshop for inspiration and with Kresling created the documentary Path about their work and the residency. The works created at the Wendell Castle Workshop were on view at HB381 in NYC over the summer.
Tonight, 10/7/26, is the opening reception for the exhibition, with a screening of Path at 6pm. The exhibition will be on view until 10/11/26.
More from the gallery and Project Director Kathrine Page:
…The residency became a critical exploration of the deep geographical and cultural connection between the two continents. Working along the shores of Lake Ontario, the artists searched for stones that embodies qualities central to their practice: a reverence for nature in transformation, an awareness of water’s ancient and shaping force, and an appreciation for the mystery and paradox inherent in the sea. They ultimately selected rocks whose fluid contours revealed the incremental effects of tides and whose visible strata suggested the slow thaw of a disintegrating glacier. Inspired by these specimens, they created two large-scale, stack-laminated, hand-carved sculptural furniture works, measuring four and five feet in height.
This exhibition of photographs documenting the residency draws on a visual language shaped by an aesthetic connection to glacial formations and landscapes of confluence and exchange. It explores emotional intersections and celebrates the threshold where atmosphere and materiality meet. The photographs reflect shared characteristics of the landscapes of Denmark and the Great Lakes region, while highlighting the creativity that emerges from this geographical kinship.
At the Edge also celebrates the role of intuition as a catalyst for artistic discovery and breakthrough. At its heart, the exhibition offers a meditation on the collaborative residency that brought together furniture designers and filmmakers in an exploration of landscape, material. memory, and place.
Accompanying the exhibition at the Wilmington Film Festival is the documentary film, Path, by Matt Kresling in partnership with Nordic filmmakers in Denmark. Path documents the design team Egevaerk’s journey from Denmark to their five-week residency of artistic discovery in Rochester, NY where they designed, built, and crafted sculptures in the workshop of the late legendary artist Wendell Castle. Far from the Danish traditions and expectations that had shaped their craft to this point, they set out to find their own path. This is a film about craftsmanship and the courage to break with the familiar forces of nature- far greater than us all.
Jennifer Hintz Eggers, “Through the Night”, Oil on birch panel
RitaMarie Cimini, “After the Dream”, Oil on acrylic
Maia Palmer, “Splitting Headache”, Migraine Portrait Series, Charcoal and pastel on paper
Jennifer S. Rodgers, “Nearly every day (PHQ-9 Depression)” and “More than half the days (GAD-7 Anxiety)” acrylic paint, ink on canvas
Interactive work by Jennifer S. Rodgers– gallery visitors are encouraged to write down worries, fears or anxieties on the paper and place them in the box
Acrylic on wood paintings by Carly Maiorano
Tonight (9/11/26) is the closing reception for Shadow Work, a group exhibition at Chris White gallery in downtown Wilmington. Curated by Jen Hintz Eggers and Rebecca Howell, nine local artists present work exploring what can be discovered through “shadow work“.
From the gallery:
Shadow Work invites impolite conversations. By shining a light on the hidden aspects of ourselves and our society, each artist examines their experience through honest dialog around parts rarely seen or discussed. From impeccably constructed portraits and florals to expressive large scale paintings and found object sculptures, these works offer a space for vulnerability by opening up the door to community.
Other artists included in the exhibition but not pictured: Regina Katz, Jane Quarterone, Rebecca Howell, and Samara Weaver.
Tonight is also Art Loop Wilmington, a monthly event where galleries and cultural spaces stay open late.
As part of their programming for the nation’s 250th birthday, Delaware Art Museum is showing the work of local artists in their current exhibition, The People’s Gallery. It is a non-juried exhibition which allowed artists at all levels to contribute work.
It’s a fantastic opportunity to see what this community of artists has created and to purchase local art. Check it out before it closes on 9/6/26.
Paintings by E. Lizé
The members of this year’s Artist-in-Residence Cohort (ARC) at The Delaware Contemporary, Mo Berrouet, E.Lizé, and Celeste M. Rodriguez, each explored an element of the self for their culminating exhibition, Self, Realized.
This exhibition was curated by Amber M. Chacana, the first ARC curator-in-residence, and closes on 8/30/26.
Paintings by E. Lizé
E. Lizé’s series is titled Familial World.
E.Lizé is a musical artist and trained visual artist, who paints portraits and scenes dedicated to the Black experience. E.Lizé’s goal is to bridge the gap between predecessors and successors in order to remain a catalyst in preserving Black culture and Black history. E.Lizé is dedicated to archiving and preserving cultural and artistic history. She has a strong interest in tangible history and what it means to inherit it.
Inspired by the women who raised her, E.Lizé created these portraits as a way to honor their legacies and their lives (so far). In doing so, she created a personal archive, marked by her own perspective and care for her family.
Paintings by Mo Berrouet
Mo Berrouet‘s series of work is titled Emotional World.
From the museum:
Mo Berrouet is a visual artist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a BFA from West Chester University. Her work explores themes of mental and physical health, personal narrative, and the complexities of the human experience, expressed through a variety of mediums including painting, sculpture, ceramics, and photography.
Berrouet delves into the world of her emotions and how they exist within her body, and how her body exists in relation to her emotions. While her subject matter is personal, the emotions and feelings within them resonate with others. For Berrouet, our collective human experiences inspire her.
Work by Celeste M. Rodriguez
Celeste M. Rodriguez chose Cultural World for this body of work.
From the museum:
Celeste M. Rodriguez is a Puerto Rican-American artist born and raised in Camden, NJ. She received her B.A. in Painting from Rutgers University-Camden. Her work examines the complex relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States through visual storytelling, addressing themes of colonialism, cultural erasure, and resilience. Utilizing video, painting, drawing, sculpture, and collage. She confronts exploitation while honoring Puerto Rican strength. She views art as personal and political, and through her art, reimagines a future for Puerto Rico rooted in dignity and self-determination.
“Calla Lilly Cloud”, 2024, Acrylic and mediums on stretched linen support
In John Breakey‘s paintings for Passing Each Other, at The Delaware Contemporary, he uses flowers and skies to explore the passing of time.
His statement about the work:
Foreground flowers and background sky move at their own pace and span of life.
Together, composed for specific periods within the day, combined to express captured growth and deliberate movement.
A cloud’s soft color shifts throughout time; they can’t seem to sit still.
And what about the flower? Each blossom evolves, invisibly slow. By days, but finite.
Flowers being what they are, fall.
Clouds, how quickly they can pass.
Like the years, the more one has.
This is my current work; a series that mixes different forms of time.
In the work above, Yellow Calla Lillies (2026) he reorders the panels to explore these ideas even further.
He says this about the painting:
I have an engraving by Aki Kuroda in the studio that speaks quietly to me: Flower X, 2004. Simplicity and grace packed into eight by ten inches. It served as a challenge to make this rendition of lillies more simple. Not graphic, not hard edged like Kuroda’s work but a new version of the work to the immediate right.
There was a deliberate choice to flip the left and right panels: these works are about time.
Two kinds.
Faster as the clouds pass.
Slower; a flower’s young green pigments before moving to dark.
Reordering the panels was my way of asking if moments are what we think they are.
Is how we account for time spent as linear as a best guess recall or something else?
This exhibition closes 8/30/26.
Leonard A. Harmon, “Untitled”, c.1980s, Oil on masonite
Leonard D. Harmon, “Last Copper Moon”, 2025, Acrylic, spray paint, oxidized copper shavings, paper on wood panel
Leonard D. Harmon, “Last Copper Moon”, 2025 (detail)
Delaware Art Museum‘s Living Indigenous showcases and celebrates Indigenous communities and artists in multiple locations in the museum. The exhibition is part of the museum’s programming for the 250th anniversary of the United States.
Developed in partnership with the Nanticoke Indian Museum, one room dedicated to works created by Indigenous artists includes paintings by Leonard A. Harmon and his nephew, Leonard D. Harmon.
From the museum and artist about Last Copper Moon (pictured above):
Leonard D. Harmon notes the rich artistic legacy that precedes him. He explains, “I draw inspiration from my ancestors to infuse a modern twist into traditional arts.” This painting references the architectural forms his uncle, Leonard A. Harmon, was creating in the 1980s. A copper moon, or total lunar eclipse, is a sacred Indigenous occurrence, and the images Harmon includes refer to associated rituals.
The exhibition continues upstairs with two different series of portraits of members of Delaware’s Indigenous communities– Will Wilson‘s Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange (CIPX) and Andre’ L. Wright, Jr.’s Indigenous Faces of Wilmington. In 2022 the museum invited Wilson to continue his CIPX project in Delaware and facilitated a photoshoot of citizens of the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware (The Original People) and the Nanticoke Indian Tribe (The Tidewater People). That same year the museum also commissioned Andre’ L. Wright, Jr. to create a project showcasing diverse Wilmingtonians, two of which are pictured below.
Two portraits by Andre’ L. Wright, Jr. from his series “Indigenous Faces of Wilmington”
Living Indigenous is on view until 8/23/26 and the museum is free to visit every Thursday from 4-8pm.
American artist Edward Hopper was born today, July 22nd, in 1882. He created numerous portraits of people in New York City, including the one pictured above, Summertime, painted in 1943. It is currently on view at the Delaware Art Museum.