End Fossil Fuels March to UN
Join the Event at 56th Street and Broadway and march to UN to fight for an end to fossil fuels and a transition to renewables! I will be bringing posters and banners with my artwork to spread the message.
Please come!!
Join the Event at 56th Street and Broadway and march to UN to fight for an end to fossil fuels and a transition to renewables! I will be bringing posters and banners with my artwork to spread the message.
Please come!!
Elizabeth will give a tour of the current show and talk about each piece with a Q&A afterwards.
Topic: Rights of Nature Zoom Reception
Time: Sep 16, 2023 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
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A solo show about the effects of climate change and what we can do to prevent it.
The Roundtable Exhibit features work by Roundtable Committee members and their guests. This exhibit brings together established and emerging artists, offering them an opportunity to share their aesthetic explorations and latest accomplishments. The works encompass a variety of genres and materials.
Solo Show of recent paintings at Ceres Gallery, 547 West 27th Street
"Figuratively Speaking": An Exhibition of Portraiture & Figurative Art
Upper Gallery, February 02, 2021 - February 19, 2021
The Salmagundi Club is pleased to announce its 2021 OPEN FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING EXHIBITION, scheduled for February 2 - 19, 2021.
On View at the Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue @ Twelfth Street | New York, NY
Tue-Fri, 1-6PM | Sat-Sun, 1-5PM
Closed Mondays
This competitive fine art exhibition is open to artists and comprised of works from all over the country and allows both well known and up-and-coming artists to exhibit their work in Salmagundi prestigious galleries.
Ceres Gallery presents Outside My Oeuvre, a works on paper group exhibition. This show of more than twenty-five artists was conceived in response to their need to exhibit work that was created in unexpected ways, in unexpected places, using unexpected materials or sources, or whose creation was preparatory, whimsical, fanciful, impulsive, playful or in response to outside circumstances or events. In 2020, activities in physical spaces were greatly curtailed; socializing was restricted and human contact often only virtual. This presented both challenges and opportunities to many of our artists. Some of the work in this exhibition can be seen as a response to difficult times and ultimately produced work that, in some cases, surprised even the artist herself.
There are pieces in Outside My Oeuvre made as part of a path to the artists’ major work; some is work that arose from seeing and being inspired by exhibitions in galleries or museums and yet other work seems to have been created on a lark. Many of the participating artists have contributed works on paper even though their dominant medium is sculpture or painting. In some cases this work was approached in a non-serious manner and in other cases as a necessary part of the artists’ development.
Moreover, much of the work, though strong, may never have been shown at all because it would have been extraneous to the artists’ solo exhibition. Although there was a wide range of how and why these works were produced, taken together, the more than fifty pieces make up a delightful and exhilarating, sometimes magical, visual experience and the defining requirement of difference, ironically, produced a cohesive and edifying exhibition.
Ceres Gallery is pleased to present Resolutions, an exhibit of 17 artworks in varied mediums. Embarking on the coming year, the gallery artists present artwork embodying a renewed sense of purpose, tenacity, and steadfastness.
Working in such diverse media as encaustic, textile, oil paint, and digital art, each artist brings a personal vision to the coming year.
Says Kyra Belan of her piece Global Climate Strike: “This artwork expresses my concern about climate change and its impact on our Mother Earth and its drastic effects on our environment and the future of this planet.”
Marilyn Banner sees cooperation as a key objective going forward. Her piece Travelers is inspired by the growth and persistence of lichen. “Lichen requires close cooperation between two separate substances, proliferates beautifully, keeps going, survives on many substrates, and thrives.”
Ceres Gallery will be at booth #59 at the Superfine! Art Fair at 459 W. 14th St.
I will have 4 piece at the art fair - please come visit!
More info to come soon.
The opening reception for Elizabeth Downer Riker's Exhibit: Beneath the Same Sky will be held on Thursday at the Ceres Gallery from 6-8pm
FARM TO CANVAS: ARTIST CONNECTS DISTANT FIELDS WITH LOCAL ROOFTOPS
September 5–30, 2017—Exhibition at Ceres Gallery in New York City
September 13, 7-8:30pm—Panel Discussion: NYC Urban Farmers to Share View from the Roof
Ceres Gallery will present Beneath the Same Sky: From Oaxaca’s Central Valley to the Rooftops of New York, paintings by Elizabeth Downer Riker, September 5 through September 30, 2017. In conjunction with the exhibit, there will be a panel discussion, “Rooftop Farms: Greening the Concrete Jungle,” at the gallery on September 13 from 7 to 8:30 pm. Both events are free to the public.
Beneath the Same Sky reveals commonalities between two vastly different cultures through the depiction of agricultural labor. Riker’s oil on canvas works depict indigenous farmers working the fields in an ancient village in southern Mexico and metropolitan New Yorkers farming on the city’s industrial rooftops, a pioneering form of urban agriculture spreading in cities across the globe. Though worlds apart, the subjects of Riker’s paintings are linked by the same small-scale, labor-intensive work where a successful harvest depends on a knowledge of and respect for the unique needs of the land, be it a communally-owned plot tilled for generations or crane loads of soil deposited on top of a warehouse.
The artist, born in Boston and raised in Paris, started out as a filmmaker, studying at NYU’s graduate film program. After discovering her love for painting, she studied at the Art Students League in Manhattan. She lived for many years in the Central Valleys region of Oaxaca, where indigenous communities, insulated by rugged terrain, have succeeded in retaining their cultural traditions and customs into the modern age. Over time, Riker developed a close relationship with the villagers of San Bartolomé, and was invited to accompany them with her easel as they worked the land. Just as she was to drawn to their labor in the fields, many of the village children were intrigued by her work at the easel, culminating in a series of art workshops which she organized for village youth.
Riker returned to New York still passionate about the theme of people working the land, and found a new subject here—on the city’s rooftops. The rooftop farmers are inspiring to her, not only as a subject for her work, but also because they offer a hopeful vision for a greener future and are creating new opportunities for people to connect with nature in an increasingly urbanized world.
Ceres Gallery promotes contemporary women artists, supports diverse artistic and political views, and encourages risk-taking by artists in all disciplines.
Ceres Gallery
547 West 27th St, Suite 201 New York, NY 10001 Phone: 212-947-6100
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Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Saturday 12 pm–6 pm; Thursday 12 pm–8 pm
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