LEAP FROG
Mary Anne Arntzen, Roscoe Hall, Kyle Riley
October 9 – 25, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 9, 5 – 7 pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, October 25, 3 pm
Ground Floor Contemporary is thrilled to present Leap Frog, an exhibition of new works by Mary Anne Arntzen, Kyle Riley, and visiting artist, Roscoe Hall.
Mary Anne Arntzen (b. Riverside, CA) is a painter based in Birmingham, AL. Her work explores the narrative potential of abstraction through layered compositions that reference architecture, textiles, and cartoons. Arntzen holds an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a BFA in Painting from Boston University. She is a recipient of the Bethesda Painting Prize and the Maryland State Arts Council’s Individual Artist Award in Painting. Arntzen has attended residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, and the Wassaic Project. From 2013 to 2020, she served on the advisory committee for ICA Baltimore, curating three exhibitions.
Roscoe Hall is a painter and chef who makes layered, textured canvases from materials he lives with—soil, burlap, denim, spices, and scraps that carry memory. Born in Chicago and now living in Birmingham, AL, he draws from the South’s foodways and histories to shape his work. For over twenty years, he has cooked and painted side by side, carrying the rhythm, precision, and improvisation of the kitchen into the studio. His paintings move between abstraction and story, reverence and rupture, beauty and labor, inheritance and what we carry forward.
Kyle Riley is an artist who makes sculptures, paintings, collages, and things of that nature. He is a scavenger of old signs, flea markets, and the beauty of the left behind. Riley uses found materials to compose familiar abstractions and volumes, striving to extract the sublime from these objects by cutting, arranging, and manipulating them. His interests include the Chicago Bears, books with a lot of pictures in them, playing poker, hanging out in the garage, and how tire shops are painted. Born in Rockford, Illinois and developing his art practice in Chicago over the span of a decade, he now lives in Birmingham, AL. Riley is a self-taught artist and has spent years working in the art world, installing large-scale sculptures around the country.
Artwork: Rosco Hall, Roots of Involvement, 2024, Ingredients: acrylic, charcoal, pastel, ink, Earth Wind and Fire song "That’s the Way of the World", tons of indica hits, hibiscus gin, shrimp crackers, memories of Portland, love and new outlooks on canvas, 60x48 inches