2023-RAISING WOMEN'S VOICES

  

Gallery I & II

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Selected Ceres members

Opening reception:  

Thursday, June 29, 2023, 6:00 - 8:00 pm.

Ceres Gallery is pleased to present our annual group exhibition of select gallery artists. Work in this exhibition will highlight the many points of view of Ceres’ artists expressed through their work in painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, mixed media, and photography.  

 

Participating artists: Kyra Belan, Marcy Bernstein, Jo-Ann Brody, Rae Broyles, Elizabeth Myers Castonguay, Regina Corritore, Micaela de Vivero, Hagar Shur Fletcher, Pamela Flynn, Carol Goebel, Susan Grabel, M. J. Hickerson, Carla Rae Johnson, Nancy Kahlow-Curtis, Susan Kaplow, Tania Kravath, Virginia Mallon, Liz Ndoye, Mary Alice Orito, Elizabeth Downer Riker, Irina Sheynfeld, Jane Stevens, Maria Torffield, Vivian Tsao 

DANCE GOOD-GUNS BAD, acrylic on canvas, 8" x 10",$200

 

 

 

SUMMER EXHIBIT AT LYDIA STREET GALLERY

 The summer group exhibit, VISION BOARD, is going to be July 1 to August 5, 2023. Lydia Street on East 11th has an exhibit opening now for Lawrence McFarland. These two wonderful jewels will be in the exhibit.

There's a little golden cheek warbler singing its heart out for the dancing wishbones and the grand monarch butterfly!

This is a gorgeous wildflower with some gold leaf and such in another dimension. We are all 

joined. Life needs bugs and flowers.

BUTTERFLIES AND BUGS

They are us. We need them and they are magnificent. We are them, they are us. It goes around and around!

GOLD LEAF BLUEBONNET

 This is about a foot and a half tall blossom with some gold plated decorations to bump up its magnificence. I want to take it out and show out in the light of day. sometimes I forget to exhibit works that I love. Selfish !

USING THE RESEARCH PLUS MONARCH MIGRATION

 Now this painting is building. Using the same ideas but growing them. I saw the monarchs migrate. Just a picture of that does not remotely capture the sense of what? The unity? The miracle? Awe? So I am painting a poem about a miracle that happens, has been happening every  spring and fall.

     

 

 

 

 

This canvas is 24" x 36" so that creature with the orange wings is only about 13" tall. Stay Tuned!

 

 

RESEARCH LIFE

A bit of watercolor to discover a magnificent bit of life in my yard! These are called spiderwort by many. I call them Miracles. The came unbidden, wild, into my yard.

VAENTINE'S DAY TO THE WORLD FROM BANKSY

 

This image by Banksy is perfect for Valentine's Day because it does not imply expectations. Just giving, hope, love all the good. Then when I think of Banksy and his gifts I think of Shepard Fairey and his attack on my painted cow, Flowerida.

The local TV station interviewed me about the desecration of my cow that was sold at an auction with Jay Leno officiating to raise money for the children's hospital. Flowerida sold for $20,000!!! I removed the graffitti before the sale. I told the TV interviewer how proud I was to be chosen for attack from the great Shepard Fairey. They edited it. I wasn't supposed to be appreciative of the honor. When I watched my interview on TV I was surprised at how drastically they were changed the meaning of what I said. Clever editing can do a lot!!