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Dana L. Wiley Gallery

Art Exhibition with Jeremy Long, Paintings

March 24, 2025 By Lisa Grigsby

The gallery is honored to present an exhibition of Jeremy Long’s oil paintings, featuring a collection that explores landscapes, still life, and interior spaces. His work draws from the traditions of historical painting while establishing a unique voice that speaks to contemporary experience.

Jeremy Long born 1971 in Chicago IL is an American painter. He studied with a number of leading American painters, including Gabriel Laderman, Stanley Lewis and Wilbur Niewald at The Kanas City Art Institute. Long made his first trip overseas in 1996 to paint from the landscape in Rome Italy for six months. After returning to the U.S. he was accepted into the Painting program at American University in Washington D.C. where he earned his MFA working closely with Stanley Lewis and visiting artist Glenn Goldberg. He has taught at Knox College, Ithaca College, Assumption College, The School of Art at Chautauqua Institution, and is currently an Associate Professor at Wright State University in Dayton OH. Long has exhibited widely throughout the U.S. and is a member of the Bowery Gallery in NYC. For more information, please contact the gallery at [email protected] or visit our website at danalwileygallery.com.

Tagged With: Dana L. Wiley Gallery

Dayton at Work and Play: Dana L. Wiley

September 3, 2021 By Bill Franz

The Dana L. Wiley GALLERY is beautiful. It looks like a place you’d find as you wander around the streets of San Francisco or New York.
I sat down with Dana at the conference table in the gallery’s office and asked about her journey from working artist to gallery owner.
“I still do make my own art” she told me “but I haven’t exhibited in the gallery yet. A few years ago I agreed to curate a show and I loved it. I loved meeting with the artists, I loved deciding how to put the various art pieces together and I loved being around the art all day.”
“I talked with artist Gary Hinsche about the idea and the two of us decided to open up this gallery. This space here is great. We have room for Gary’s studio and this office and lots of room to show art.”
Our last exhibition featured four artists from across the country. Now we’re showing a local artist, Mike Elsass, but we’re showing him in a way that’s different from the way Dayton people have seen his work before. People should stop by tonight during First Friday and have a look.”

Dana L. Wiley GALLERY

1001 E. 2nd St., Suite 2405,
Dayton, OH 45402.

(937) 475-3794

Filed Under: The Featured Articles, Visual Arts Tagged With: Dana L. Wiley Gallery, Mike Elsass

Dayton Steel Exhibit Debuts

August 13, 2021 By Dayton Most Metro

The work of Mike Elsass, one of Dayton’s most prominent and prolific artists, will debut this Friday at a first-of-its-kind art opening this Friday at the Dana L. Wiley Gallery, at 1001 East Second Street (B/C Entrance-Second Floor) in Dayton.

Experience Mike Elsass’ work in ways it has never been seen before in the special curation “Dayton Steel” debuting Friday, August 13 through October 17, 2021.

The exhibit will open to the public with a special event from 7-9 p.m. this Friday, during which new pieces will debut and be displayed in interesting and exciting ways that have never been seen before, putting new twists on the “brush before brain” philosophy that earned Elsass his reputation. The event is open to the public and will feature heavy hors d’oeuvres from acclaimed Chef Joseph Fish.

Elsass paints–and lives–by the philosophy that there are no mistakes, pushing people to embrace action before thought, and inspiring them to open their minds and engage with the unexpected. People get stuck in their own heads. Elsass forces them out. He never knows what he is painting until it’s done, and it’s usually more about the journey than the result.

Elsass has been one of the most generous and prolific artists in the history of Dayton, having invested $2.5 million into beautifying spaces, donating artwork and partnering with nonprofits to create meaningful experiences through art. Throughout the pandemic, he donated even more artwork to local businesses to be auctioned off, and exchanged artwork for donations to area nonprofits in an effort to keep the energy up in the region.

Mike’s art celebrates imperfection, bringing together what’s typically abandoned and forgotten into breathtaking statement pieces that capture emotion through composition. Often using materials discarded as garbage, Mike uses things like tar, oil, grit, silicate sand, spent whiskey mash–and this year, even some cicadas–to intentionally deteriorate his pieces before blanketing them with layer upon layer of paint in various colors.

Elsass’ enchanting and eclectic studio space now occupies 9,000 square feet of studio space at Front Street Galleries, which is also home to Dana L. Wiley Gallery, where Dayton Steel will debut on Friday.

The show will continue through Oct. 17, with a special artist talk:

IN THE GALLERY WITH MIKE ELSASS

SEPTEMBER 23RD, 7PM

Join Mike Elsass for a discussion on his artwork, process and how his artwork has impacted the Dayton community.

Please register for the Art Talk on Eventbrite. Limited seating available.

Filed Under: The Featured Articles, Visual Arts Tagged With: Dana L. Wiley Gallery, Front Street, Mike Elsass

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