The catalog is 96 pages, full color, and features essays by the artist’s great-grandson and family curator Matt Berger, and an essay by the critic and scholar Lucy Sante. For more, see this recent video-recorded symposium devoted to the artist.

Grant Wallace (1868–1954) was an artist and occultist who spend much of his life in California. Later in life, he began experimenting with telepathy, or what he referred to as "mental radio.” Over the next two decades, Grant Wallace channeled his visions and messages into elaborate portraits, texts, and complex diagrams and calculations. Through his work, Wallace endeavored to prove reincarnation, extraterrestrial life, and the coexistence of the living with the dead.

This book is the richly illustrated catalog for the Ricco/Maresca exhibition Over the Psychic Radio, the first gallery exhibition ever to be mounted of the work of Grant Wallace (1868–1954) from October 20th to December 3rd 2022. Over the Psychic Radio featured 31 works from a collection that was recently discovered by the artist’s great-grandchildren.

Grant Wallace was born in Hopkins, Missouri, in 1868, one of 9 children. He set out for New York City at age 19, where he studied and developed his interest in the occult. Wallace eventually made his way to California, where he worked as an editorial illustrator and reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and San Francisco Chronicle. He graduated to editorial writer for the Evening Bulletin and covered the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 among a group of war correspondents that included Jack London and Richard Harding Davis.

Just before World War I, Wallace settled with his family in Carmel, California, where he began experimenting with telepathy, or what he referred to as "mental radio.”

Only ten works by Wallace have been previously seen by the wider public. They were exhibited between 1997 and 1998 at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore as part of The End Is Near! Visions of Apocalypse, Millennium, and Utopia and are illustrated in the eponymous catalog, published by Dilettante Press. The exhibition and publication were curated and authored by Roger Manley.