In the last days on the walls at Arch Enemy Arts, you still have an opportunity to experience Mike Gamble’s Into the Void, Graham Yarrington’s The Cherished Unknown, and Brian Serway’s Ashes from the Astral. These three solo exhibitions have created a unique atmosphere in the gallery… a silent, cosmic depth blending layers of surreal folk narratives and mystical star-fed compositions.
Select remaining works are still available, and all pieces from each exhibition will continue to be featured in the gallery’s post-catalogue section. Even after the show closes, artwork can be viewed and purchased directly through the AEA website, offering art lovers a chance to bring these visions home.
Mike Gamble, Graham Yarrington, Brian Serway
Exhibition Dates: March 6th – 29th, 2026
Arch Enemy Arts
109 Arch Street | Philadelphia, PA 19106 USA | (215) 717-7774
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Regular Gallery Hours:
CLOSED MONDAY & TUESDAY
• Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 10am – 4pm
• Saturdays & Sundays: 11am – 5pm
MIKE GAMBLE, INTO THE VOID
Arch Enemy Arts presents INTO THE VOID by Philly local Mike Gamble in his first exhibition of oil paintings plus one 3D-printed sculpture, hand-painted by the artist but voluntarily created and sent to him by a fan of his work. That’s because Gamble is a legend in the TOOL Army. Like the band, he’s cultivated a fanatical following, and with this collection, even the uninitiated can see why. As if wrought from another dimension, Gamble’s art documents intense emotions with a clarity most can only ever experience in the abstract. To categorize his paintings as visionary, hyper-surreal, or mystical, is too limiting. They are more like visual proofs of the soul—they embody a spirit that’s dark, profound, and encompassing.
“The world and the figures I paint are personifications of humanity and visual representations of human consciousness. The humanoid figures are largely based on Greek and Roman mythology; my interpretation of gods and goddesses of death, war, life, and love. What I am aiming to capture is a reflection on humanity. The anatomical figures are literally stripped of the superficial things that we use to divide. They are observing and influencing chaos on earth in one instance; they’re cradling the moon in another. I think this body of work is a reflection of how I feel about where humans are headed, how they interact with one another, and a sense of separation from it all.” – Mike Gamble
Mike Gamble (b. 1988) is based in Philadelphia, where he was born and raised, and graduated from Tyler in 2010. Gamble went on to build a prolific career in printmaking, developing a highly technical pointillist style of reduction woodcuts, which he has exhibited locally and internationally, including at the International Art Museum of America in San Francisco. Gamble only recently began to explore oil painting in 2020, creating artwork inspired by music that quickly appealed to his community and caught the attention of the musicians themselves. It is an honor to host Gamble’s first collection in this iteration of his career and to exhibit the original renderings of some of his most sought-after images.
GRAHAM YARRINGTON, THE CHERISHED UNKNOWN
Arch Enemy Arts presents THE CHERISHED UNKNOWN, a series of seven new paintings by Graham Yarrington that forge a psychedelic sci-fi fantasy world, where four-legged beasts, totems, and shrouded protectors pour forth with strange benevolence. There’s something intoxicating and effortless about Graham’s illustrative style. His juxtaposition of water-based techniques—opaque shapes and brilliant linework make colors leap from blooming gradations of black ink—like neon sprouting from ash. Swirling, gathering, mounting, and growing, Yarrington’s creatures breathe life into the dark, apocalyptic world they occupy, transporting us as vibrations of light and otherworldly glow.
“All of the paintings in THE CHERISHED UNKNOWN take place in the same alternate world, and although I still don’t fully understand this world, I have no problem continuing to imagine what kind of beings or things populate it. Through their creation, I continue to learn more about it.
My work is mostly about escapism, but I think the overall message has some cultural or social value. I hope that, through learning to appreciate works of art one may not fully understand, we can also learn to appreciate and love our neighbors who may be different from us. You don’t need to have a full understanding of something to be able to hold compassion in your heart for it.” – Graham Yarrington
Graham Yarrington (b. 1991) is based in Rochester, NY. A burgeoning tattoo artist and prolific illustrator, with noteworthy clients like The New York Times, Warner Bros., Phish, The Grateful Dead, and Elton John, Yarrington graduated with a degree in Illustration from the prestigious Pratt Institute. While he’s been exhibiting his fine art work since 2014 and has garnered recognition from publications such as Juxtapoz, Hi-Fructose, Supersonic, and BOOOOOOOM, THE CHERISHED UNKNOWN is Graham’s first solo exhibition of entirely new work, marking a pivotal moment in the artist’s career.
BRIAN SERWAY, ASHES FROM THE ASTRAL
Arch Enemy Arts presents ASHES FROM THE ASTRAL by Brian Serway, an exhibition of eleven works in graphite and watercolor that seek to “capture the haziness of a half-remembered dream.” Like a dream, Serway’s technique—fluid, layered, and atmospheric—creates this nebulous sense of dissolving form. At once narrative and celestial, ASHES FROM THE ASTRAL conjures epic encounters with mythic beasts and ancient titans, capturing a sublime sense of scale in relatively small and contained compositions. Serway’s evocative subject matter is almost primordial. It elicits strong, subjective emotions that are simultaneously set in a true sense of place.
“In many ways, ASHES FROM THE ASTRAL is a spiritual successor to my last solo with AEA, exploring the idea that there are realms that exist beyond where we can tangibly go in the physical plane. Since I was a young kid, I’ve been deeply fascinated with the cosmos, ghost stories, mythic tales, and all things that are seemingly ‘unknowable.’ I am transfixed by cosmic horror and the powerful, otherworldly imagery and immeasurable scale it evokes. There’s a certain existential beauty (and horror) in not knowing something; so much of our world’s problems derive from that very thing. And yet, to me, the more intangible something is, the more pure.” – Brian Serway
Brian Serway (b. 1991) is based in Johnson City, Tennessee. He tells us he loves how his hometown acts as a bridge to the greater Appalachian region, as his work is deeply inspired by the region’s mountains, mysticism, and folklore. Serway is the owner and curator of Holler House in Bristol, VA, a gallery and retail space dedicated to the art and artists of Appalachia. He began showing with AEA in 2020 after submitting to our Spotlight Showcase, and his work has since become a staple of the gallery. ASHES FROM THE ASTRAL is Serway’s fourth solo feature with Arch Enemy Arts.
About the Gallery
Founded in 2012, Arch Enemy Arts is an exhibition space for established and emerging artists from all over the world, actively working in the vast and imaginative movement of New Contemporary Art. Curation at Arch Enemy Arts focuses on representational drawing, painting, and sculpture with emphasis in lowbrow/pop surrealism, magical realism, and post-graffiti genres. Our programming provides access to a range of artistic expression through a variety of styles and mediums, dedicated to showcasing the strikingly unconventional, highly technical, and delightfully strange.
Celebrated within Philadelphia’s thriving arts community, Arch Enemy Arts has been named Philly’s Favorite Art Gallery in 2025 by The Philadelphia Inquirer, selected as Best of Philly™ – Best Art Gallery in Philadelphia Magazine’s 40th Anniversary issue, and voted Best Art Gallery in Philadelphia on Philly HOT LIST in 2012 and 2013.
