October 29 – November 23, 2024
Gallery I
Trees of Life
Susan Kaplow
October 29 – November 23, 2024
Reception: Thursday, Oct. 31, 5-8pm
The artist will also be in the gallery, Saturday, Nov. 9, 2-4 and Saturday Nov 23, 3-6.
Mother Tree, 2022, 30 x 20 x 4″
Trees inspired Susan Kaplow’s new body of work. She studied the Kabbalah Tree of Life from her own Jewish heritage and discovered that this ancient idea is still alive in cultures and religions around the world. She read the work of scientists who, in our day, are uncovering trees’ behavior and wisdom, from which we have much to learn. She was especially fascinated by Suzanne Simard’s Finding the Mother Tree.
All of this guided her heart and hands as she used natural materials — wool from sheep and alpacas and bark and branches from trees — to create in the studio.
Kaplow’s work is currently in Jewish Museums in Berlin, Germany and Amsterdam, Holland. In NYC, she has shown in the Atlantic Gallery, Riverfront Art Gallery, Bernard Museum, Heller Museum.
Gallery I
Iterations
Pam Shields
October 29 – November 23, 2024
Receptions: Thu, Oct. 31, 6-8pm and Sat, Nov. 23, 3-6pm.
Iteration 03, 2024, 40 x 20″, screen print on acetate scroll
Ceres Gallery is pleased to present Iterations, by Pam Shields.
Drawing is a daily practice for artist Pam Shields. It is a form of meditation. She begins her day in the studio by closing her eyes, centering herself, dipping brush into ink and attempting to express her inner state in a single stroke.
During her daily practice, Shields experimented with different types of paper. By chance, she tried some sheets of acetate. The ink coalesced in interesting ways on the slick surface. Seeing the acetate pieces hanging on her studio wall, she realized the cast shadows were an integral part of the piece.
Shields took her ink drawings and used them to create individual screen prints. She then printed these images repetitively on acetate scrolls, revealing intricate patterns of ink. The resulting shadows became yet another iteration of the work.
Shields has been a member of Ceres Gallery since 2011. She studied at the Art Students League of New York. Her studio is in Reading, Pennsylvania.
Gallery II
Nina Fletcher
Inside/Out
October 29 – November 23, 2024
Receptions: Thu, Oct. 31, 6-8pm and Sat, Nov. 23, 3-6pm.
Artemesia Snaps, linocut, 32 x 36″
Nina Fletcher’s art is about her obsessions. She tries to materialize that which she grapples with in hopes that she is not alone in her search. Fletcher has been making art for decades. Having graduated from MassArt in painting, she was soon lured into other media—clothing, shoes, wire, metals, glass. Throughout her various forays, she has always maintained an interest in printmaking. Linocuts in particular are her preferred storyboard form.
Fletcher’s art is largely figurative, the human body, being for her, an endless source of wonder and curiosity. We all live in one. Peel away the layers and what remains is a remarkable organism common to all. Her work as a nurse for fifteen years undoubtedly fed this passion.
Throughout her life, Nina Fletcher has tried to excavate the archeology of being a woman—not so much the politics, but rather the various and unique ways our anger manifests. This has been a lifelong expedition.
Upcoming:
November 26 – December 21, 2024
EXPOSURE
A unique, rotating exhibition of multiple, one week, one person shows bringing the personal vision of a diverse group of artists to Chelsea.