Delray Arts Gallery

Delray Arts Gallery operates out of a studio and showroom on West Atlantic Avenue under the business entity Philip Corley Fine Art LLC, built around the oil paintings and oil sketches of artist Philip Corley. Corley’s work leans toward large scale figurative and narrative oil painting, and the gallery has developed a reputation less for high volume retail sales and more for significant, one of a kind commissioned pieces. One of the most notable examples of the artist’s output is Coming Home, an eighty six by seventy two inch oil painting that Corley donated to the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia in April 2016 as a tribute to servicemembers. That painting had previously appeared on the cover of Leatherneck magazine, the publication of the Marine Corps, in December 2014, which gives a sense of the scale and subject matter the artist regularly works in.

Beyond that single high profile piece, the gallery has a track record of donating original artwork to hospitals, schools, and fire departments throughout the region, a practice that reflects an artist more interested in placing meaningful work in public serving institutions than simply moving inventory. That civic minded approach is part of what makes the gallery worth knowing about for Delray Beach residents, even those who are not actively shopping for a painting. It represents a working artist’s studio and business built around a single creative vision rather than a curated multi artist retail concept, which sets it apart from the cooperative and multi artist galleries found elsewhere along Atlantic Avenue and in the Pineapple Grove Arts District.

Because the gallery functions primarily around Corley’s own body of work, visits and purchases are generally handled directly through contact with the studio rather than through standard retail walk in hours, which is typical for a working artist’s gallery of this kind. Anyone interested in a commission, an existing painting, or simply learning more about the artist’s history and body of work should expect a personal conversation rather than a self service showroom experience.

For collectors interested in figurative oil painting with a strong narrative and often patriotic or civic theme, or for anyone curious about a Delray Beach based artist whose work has reached national institutions like the Marine Corps museum, Delray Arts Gallery offers a direct line to that body of work. It stands as one of the more distinctive single artist operations in the West Atlantic Avenue corridor, run as a small, independently owned Florida limited liability company rather than a multi location gallery brand.