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Founded in 1983, as a program of the New York Feminist Art Institute, Ceres is a not-for-profit artist run organization dedicated to the promotion of contemporary women in the arts. The gallery exhibits a broad spectrum of high quality work each year within a community of women artists that includes national and international members.
Ceres serves as a supportive base for a diversity of artistic and political views. We have become a venue for female and male writers, musicians, dancers and storytellers to perform and take risks. We believe that the arts provide an important social service with their power to enhance and enrich the quality and depth of our lives. - Stefany Benson, Director
May 28 - June 22, 2013
Gallery I
Chalda Maloff
Search Engines: New Digital Paintings
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Seeing Without Looking, 30 x 30 inches, Pigment inks on paper, mounted to acrylic |
Gallery I
May 28 - June 22, 2013
Search Engines:
New Digital Paintings
Reception:
Thursday May 30, 6-8 PM
Chalda Maloff's new series of work is dedicated to our most basic and
timeless need: the search for personal insight, clarity, and meaning.
Maloff employs the powerful aesthetic potential of the computer to create images that elicit emotion and spirituality. "The abstract geometric shapes governing each composition," Maloff says, "suggest the forms employed in ceramics, crafts, or weavings fashioned by the earliest artisans. These forms were perhaps the first expressions of timeless existential thoughts." Surfaces of the artworks appear solid, then liquid, smooth, then highly textured, rippling, and sometimes reflective, suggesting the deeper shifting patterns of the fabric of life. Shapes and forms vary from organic and timeless, to blatantly pixelated and contemporary. The visual effect of backlighting or inner glow engenders a feeling of gratification and openness to experience, as it has done from the ages of sun/fire worship through the age of device/screen worship.
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Chalda Maloff's work has been exhibited throughout North and South America, and in Europe. At the VIII Salón de Arte Digital, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Venezuela, her art was commended by the jurors for its "poetic abstract expression and purity of execution." Her work was included in the inaugural exhibit of the Museum of Computer Art in New York City. Her recent solo exhibits have been at the Houston Jung Center in Texas and Morris Graves Museum of Art in California. |
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May 28 - June 22, 2013
Gallery II
Irina Sheynfeld
Wandering Stars: Portraits in Pastel
Ophelia, pastel on board
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May 28 - June 22, 2013
Wandering Stars: Portraits in Pastel
Reception:
Thursday May 30, 6-8 PM Wandering Stars is a series of pastel drawings by Russian-born artist Irina Sheynfeld. Inspired by the Obliteration series of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, Sheynfeld explores transitional moments in women's lives. Her subjects are somewhere in the middle of their journey, a time when a person takes a moment to look inside to reflect: where am I now?, how far have I gotten?, and where am I going from here? |
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Upcoming:
June 25- July 2o, 2013
Ceres Members' Group
Sight Specific
Anne Mondro
Anatomia
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email:art@ceresgallery.org
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