What We Do:

The heart of Ceres is the exhibition season consisting of solo exhibitions and curated group shows. In addition to its function as a gallery and community network for women artists, Ceres presents a wide range of performances in such areas as music, poetry, and dance. Performance and gallery artists collaborate to curate programs for the season providing an important dialog between different disciplines within the New York community.

If you are interested in becoming a gallery artist of Ceres, a membership application is available by clicking here.

September 1-September 26, 2009

Julie A. McConnell
Deliberations on Equilibrium
McConnell's new installation utilizes beach trash along with fragments of newspaper articles to reflect on the environmental impact of modern consumerism. The artist asks us to examine the repercussions of our way of life and consider what we need to do to achieve a healthy equilibrium.

Marie Sarni
Inherent Transformations
Geometric shapes of strong color emerging from darkness. Time passing, fleeting moments, order evolving from chaos.

September 29-October 24, 2009

Elizabeth R. Wiener-Cohen
Mother Tongue
Cohen explores the language and family structure of her doll culture in a variety of pieces in different materials from works on paper to sculpture in clay, wire, and fabric.
The Garden State Dance Project will be performing “The Human Element” on Saturday Oct. 17th and Saturday Oct. 24th at 3 pm.

Jane Stevens
Dusty's House
This series of color digital photographs captures the elegance and beauty of a Victorian house. In it, color and pattern are arranged to perfection, everything has a place and is masterfully orchestrated. Light is an important element in this living painting. Upon entering the house, one feels as if it is a painted landscape with a spiritual essence. Each object has a place that enhances its presence and the shapes, colors, textures and beauty of the pieces intensify the setting.

October 27-November 21, 2009

Carol Goebel and Annette Lieberman
Responsory: Take and Give
A visual dialogue between sculptor Carol Goebel and photographer Annette Lieberman, using both galleries. A dynamic environment unfolds in which the artists respond to the essence of "the natural world."

November 24-December 29, 2009

Exposure
A unique, rotating exhibition of multiple, one-week, one-person shows bringing the personal vision of a diverse group of artists to Chelsea audiences.

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January 5-January 30, 2010

Christine Mottau
Recent Drawings
Abstract ballpoint pen drawings on paper.

February 2-February 27, 2010

Catherine Albert
Installation #547-2010
The ninth in a series of Window Installations which feature collections of salvaged wooden window sash originating from several late 19th and early 20th century buildings located throughout New York City. The original window sash, re-contextualized within the gallery arena, creates an aesthetic platform and engages a public awareness of the preservation issues surrounding the topic of window restoration versus replacement.

Ellen Wilkinson
Hamlet's Sleeve
Wilkinson's new ceramic work uses costuming details to dress her vases, boxes, and tiles.

March 2-March 27, 2010

Kathlene Tracy
You Are Here
Tracy uses charcoal on paper to capture the permanency of trees' existence in the ever changing world around them. Her large scale drawings challenge the limits of line, shape, and perspective depicting each tree figuratively. Trees remain in one place over time exhibiting strengthand beauty. From shadow to light, forms emerge that teach by example the lesson of appreciation for where one is at any given moment in life.

Micaela de Vivero
Tourist Series
A project that appropriates tourism and its documentation with snapshot photography. It is based on filtering art into everyday life activities through camouflage and mimicry and on the search for symbols and signs within places that evidence differences and makes us aware of power relations, space structures and image production. “Exploring I become a tourist to conquer old places."

March 30-April 24, 2010

Ethelyn Honig
The Eastern Garbage Patch
*"...is an endless gyre of flotsam in swirling water, an area the size of Texas in the North Pacific Ocean which is a kind of plastic soup in which polymer fragments as small as grains of salt form a broth in which larger chunks of plastic are suspended. The broth is being fed with waste plastics from the coastal waters off Japan, China, Mexico and the western United States and from ships at sea. The trash is pulled into the gyre's eddying current where it rotates indefinitely. Plastic, poses a significant threat to birds turtles and fish which become entangled in the debris and mistake it for food... The total amount of plastic waste in all oceans is estimated to be one hundred million tons". (It is getting into our food chain).
*From" Message in a Bottle" by John Colapinto, New Yorker Magazine, March 6, 2009

Cynthia Eardley
Sculpture

April 27-May 22, 2010

Marian Osher
Fearless Flying!
Osher's in-flight fascination with the textures and abstractions of the earth and clouds inspires colorful mixed media artwork that helps combat her fear offlying. With honesty and humor, she also shares in writing, the personal experiences that contributed to her fear, including her 9/11 flight, as well as the various "tools" that enabled her to return to flying without fear.

Judith Greenwald
Poem
Utilizing a wide array of materials, each of these highly textured, abstract paintings is inspired by a poem. The work is emotionally resonant, sensual and evocative.