October 1 – 26, 2024
Gallery I
The War on Women
October 1 – 26, 2024
Reception: Thu, October 3, 6-8 pm
Ceres Gallery is pleased to present a timely exhibition addressing the issues faced by women in this present, noxious, political moment: THE WAR ON WOMEN
Women have fought for their personal liberty since the founding of this country and fifty years ago they finally won the right to bodily autonomy, an essential element of liberty. We struggled long and hard and were finally successful with the passage of Roe v. Wade, but now with the Dobbs Decision, there is a wide-scale effort across the country to restrict women’s rights, especially reproductive rights, including abortion.
We are all, women and men, as well as LGBTQIA, being forced back to a patriarchal, misogynistic reactionary time. Meanwhile, laws against gender-based violence have loosened and violence against women has proliferated. Women are dying. Our health care decisions must be made by us in consultation with our families and medical professionals, not by petty ignorant politicians or jurists. Women are in the world and we will not be forced to retreat from it.
The artists in this exhibition, and Ceres Gallery as a whole, are outraged and refuse to allow our daughters and granddaughters to be denied the basic human rights that we fought for and won. This exhibition is a call to action. We will not go back!
Exhibition Artists: Jo-Ann Brody, Elizabeth Myers Castonguay, V. L. Cox, Jayne Gaskins, Judith Greenwald, Zhen Guo, Melanie Hickerson, Leigh Jerome, Carla Rae Johnson, Tania Kravath, Carole Kulikowski, Virginia Mallon, Nicole Marroquin, Lynne Mayocole, Christine Mottau, Mary Alice Orito, Elizabeth Downer Riker, Rejina Thomas, Judy Werlin.
The War on Women Action Fair
Sat, October 19, 2024, 2-5 PM
| 2-5 pm Join us to express our outrage and spread the word about the assault on women’s reproductive rights. Take selfies with our posters or the works on the wall and do short videos to post on our social media and yours Take home stickers to put up in your neighborhood. Share your story in E.M. Castonguay’s journal. Check out how to get involved in passing NY’s equal rights amendment with Lorie Honor, Chief of Staff for Vote Equality USA |
| 3 pm Eliza Smith Brown presents her new book, She Devils at the Door, from Carnegie Mellon University Press, which tells the inspiring true story of two intrepid Pittsburgh sisters, the struggle for women’s suffrage, and a lifelong crusade against corruption. In the making for more than a decade, this book is a lively slant on the suffrage story and politics of the first half of the twentieth century. |
See all the work in the exhibition HERE
Gallery II
Linda Kunik
OCULAR
October 1 – 26, 2024
Reception: Thu, October 3, 6-8 pm
Follow Me, 2024, 72 x 27″, Archival pigment print on canvas
Ceres Gallery is pleased to present OCULAR, an exhibition of new photographs and installation by Linda Kunik.
OCULAR is an exploration of the imagination, transformation and the unknown, be it literal, abstract or fantastical. Playing with perception and illusion, different processes have been used to create images that invite the viewer to enter the image and discover where it might lead.
The first set of almost life-size photographs in the exhibition invite you to explore, to imagine and enter this world.
The second set of photographs create a 3-D installation that recreates the burned, heavily charred, lifeless tree trunks Kunik found after returning to her ranch in Sequoia National Forest, following the 88,307 acre forest fire in October 2021—an opportunity to explore a transformed place.
As a child Kunik loved to look at scenes of nature, a path into the woods, a spiral into space. She would imagine herself taking that trip down the pathway or spiral and what she would find at the end. This exhibition is a partial realization of her imagination, to be shared with anyone who wants to take that first step.
Kunik holds a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design, a BA from the University of Illinois and an MS from DePaul University.
Kunik has exhibited at numerous galleries and museums, nationally and internationally, including: Ceres Gallery (New York), National Arts Club (New York), Art 1307 Gallery (Italy), Ratchadamnoen Contemporary Art Museum (Thailand), Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (Japan), Chiba City Museum of Art (Japan), Tiny Griffon Gallery (Germany), Museum of Art & History (California), Wilding Museum of Art and Nature (California), Santa Paula Museum (California). She has also exhibited at art fairs including Art Basel, Art Basel Miami, and Photo LA.
Upcoming:
October 29 – November 23, 2024
Susan Kaplow
Trees of Life
Pam Shields
Iterations
Nina Fletcher
Inside Out