Presented by the Realist Art League
Globe Dye Works, Philadelphia
October 24 – November 24, 2025
Opening Reception: October 24

As autumn deepens and the year wanes, The Realist Art League invites realist artists to submit figurative and still life works exploring the threshold—that quiet, potent moment between presence and absence, life and death, day and night, surface and interior.

Following the success of Real Friends—which brought together a vibrant community of realist painters, drew over 100 attendees on opening night, and led to multiple sales—The Realist Art League and Globe Dye Works return with a new exhibition that shifts focus inward.

We seek work that dwells in the in-between—emotive, atmospheric, and finely observed.

Featured artists at this exhibition will include Steven Assael, Darren Kingsley, and Christopher Nixon, among many other talents.

Thresholds will be presented at Globe Dye Works, a repurposed 19th-century textile mill in Northeast Philadelphia. Its dramatic natural light, raw industrial character, and scale provide a powerful setting for intimate, emotionally resonant realism.