Over the Psychic Radio: A Live, Online Symposium Dedicated to Artist and Occultist Grant Wallace, Produced in Partnership with Ricco/Maresca Gallery
Saturday, October 29, 2022
10 am - 2 pm ET
FREE (Simply RSVP Below)
PLEASE NOTE: This symposium will be recorded and available for free for our Patreon members at $5/month and above. Become a Member HERE.
We hope you’ll join us for a special symposium devoted to the forgotten life and work of American artist, occultist, and journalist Grant Wallace. This event is produced in partnership with Ricco/Maresca Gallery and celebrates their exhibition Grant Wallace: Over the Psychic Radio (October 20 - December 3, 2022).
Grant Wallace (1868–1954) had a storied life before settling with his family in Carmel, California right before WWI. Here, he began experimenting with telepathy, or what he referred to as "mental radio.” Over the next two decades, Grant Wallace channeled his visions and messages into elaborate portraits, texts, and complex diagrams and calculations. Through his work, Wallace endeavored to prove reincarnation, extraterrestrial life, and the coexistence of the living with the dead.
This symposium will explore the life, work, and cultural milieu of this enigmatic creator, featuring presentations by:
Curator and gallerist Frank Maresca
Writer, critic, and artist Lucy Sante, author of Low Life
Matt Berger, great-grandson of Grant Wallace
Art Historian Susan Aberth, professor at Bard College, author of Not Without My Ghosts
Robert Cozzolino, curator of Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art
Practicing medium Tiffany Hopkins, who will lead us on a guided meditation allowing us to engage in some artistic channeling of our own
Ricco/Maresca’s Grant Wallace: Over the Psychic Radio is the first gallery exhibition ever to be mounted of the artist's work. It features 31 works from a collection that was recently discovered by Wallace's great-grandchildren. For more on the artist and exhibition, click here.
Images (all by Grant Wallace):
“Yaoli of the Beyond”, ca. 1919 - 1925, courtesy of Ricco/Maresca Gallery | © Berger Wallace Art Collection
“Unveil the Face of the Unfeatured Vast”, ca. 1919 - 1925, courtesy of Ricco/Maresca Gallery | © Berger Wallace Art Collection
“Truth Now Can Be Separated from Falsehood”, ca. 1919 - 1925, courtesy of Ricco/Maresca Gallery | © Berger Wallace Art Collection
“From a Far Planet Zaerruez”, ca. 1919 - 1925, courtesy of Ricco/Maresca Gallery | © Berger Wallace Art Collection
Saturday, October 29, 2022
10 am - 2 pm ET
FREE (Simply RSVP Below)
PLEASE NOTE: This symposium will be recorded and available for free for our Patreon members at $5/month and above. Become a Member HERE.
We hope you’ll join us for a special symposium devoted to the forgotten life and work of American artist, occultist, and journalist Grant Wallace. This event is produced in partnership with Ricco/Maresca Gallery and celebrates their exhibition Grant Wallace: Over the Psychic Radio (October 20 - December 3, 2022).
Grant Wallace (1868–1954) had a storied life before settling with his family in Carmel, California right before WWI. Here, he began experimenting with telepathy, or what he referred to as "mental radio.” Over the next two decades, Grant Wallace channeled his visions and messages into elaborate portraits, texts, and complex diagrams and calculations. Through his work, Wallace endeavored to prove reincarnation, extraterrestrial life, and the coexistence of the living with the dead.
This symposium will explore the life, work, and cultural milieu of this enigmatic creator, featuring presentations by:
Curator and gallerist Frank Maresca
Writer, critic, and artist Lucy Sante, author of Low Life
Matt Berger, great-grandson of Grant Wallace
Art Historian Susan Aberth, professor at Bard College, author of Not Without My Ghosts
Robert Cozzolino, curator of Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art
Practicing medium Tiffany Hopkins, who will lead us on a guided meditation allowing us to engage in some artistic channeling of our own
Ricco/Maresca’s Grant Wallace: Over the Psychic Radio is the first gallery exhibition ever to be mounted of the artist's work. It features 31 works from a collection that was recently discovered by Wallace's great-grandchildren. For more on the artist and exhibition, click here.
Images (all by Grant Wallace):
“Yaoli of the Beyond”, ca. 1919 - 1925, courtesy of Ricco/Maresca Gallery | © Berger Wallace Art Collection
“Unveil the Face of the Unfeatured Vast”, ca. 1919 - 1925, courtesy of Ricco/Maresca Gallery | © Berger Wallace Art Collection
“Truth Now Can Be Separated from Falsehood”, ca. 1919 - 1925, courtesy of Ricco/Maresca Gallery | © Berger Wallace Art Collection
“From a Far Planet Zaerruez”, ca. 1919 - 1925, courtesy of Ricco/Maresca Gallery | © Berger Wallace Art Collection
Saturday, October 29, 2022
10 am - 2 pm ET
FREE (Simply RSVP Below)
PLEASE NOTE: This symposium will be recorded and available for free for our Patreon members at $5/month and above. Become a Member HERE.
We hope you’ll join us for a special symposium devoted to the forgotten life and work of American artist, occultist, and journalist Grant Wallace. This event is produced in partnership with Ricco/Maresca Gallery and celebrates their exhibition Grant Wallace: Over the Psychic Radio (October 20 - December 3, 2022).
Grant Wallace (1868–1954) had a storied life before settling with his family in Carmel, California right before WWI. Here, he began experimenting with telepathy, or what he referred to as "mental radio.” Over the next two decades, Grant Wallace channeled his visions and messages into elaborate portraits, texts, and complex diagrams and calculations. Through his work, Wallace endeavored to prove reincarnation, extraterrestrial life, and the coexistence of the living with the dead.
This symposium will explore the life, work, and cultural milieu of this enigmatic creator, featuring presentations by:
Curator and gallerist Frank Maresca
Writer, critic, and artist Lucy Sante, author of Low Life
Matt Berger, great-grandson of Grant Wallace
Art Historian Susan Aberth, professor at Bard College, author of Not Without My Ghosts
Robert Cozzolino, curator of Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art
Practicing medium Tiffany Hopkins, who will lead us on a guided meditation allowing us to engage in some artistic channeling of our own
Ricco/Maresca’s Grant Wallace: Over the Psychic Radio is the first gallery exhibition ever to be mounted of the artist's work. It features 31 works from a collection that was recently discovered by Wallace's great-grandchildren. For more on the artist and exhibition, click here.
Images (all by Grant Wallace):
“Yaoli of the Beyond”, ca. 1919 - 1925, courtesy of Ricco/Maresca Gallery | © Berger Wallace Art Collection
“Unveil the Face of the Unfeatured Vast”, ca. 1919 - 1925, courtesy of Ricco/Maresca Gallery | © Berger Wallace Art Collection
“Truth Now Can Be Separated from Falsehood”, ca. 1919 - 1925, courtesy of Ricco/Maresca Gallery | © Berger Wallace Art Collection
“From a Far Planet Zaerruez”, ca. 1919 - 1925, courtesy of Ricco/Maresca Gallery | © Berger Wallace Art Collection