EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
July 21 – August 15, 2026
FRIENDS’ EXPO
A group exhibition of Artist Friends of Ceres Gallery who help support the gallery and its feminist mission to promote women in the visual arts.
June 23 – July 18, 2026
Raising Women’s Voices 2026
Annual group exhibition of select gallery artists highlighting their many points of view as expressed through their work in painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, mixed media and photography.
May 26 – June 20, 2026
Elizabeth Ndoye and Jo-Ann Brody
Culture and Stance
Elizabeth Ndoye and Jo-Ann Brody each use their unique lens on the female figure in sculpture, paint and mixed media. Ndoye explores her self-created doll culture through large scale paintings, drawings, and mixed media constructions while Brody focuses on gesture, stance and theatrical blocking in her paper mache women.
April 28 to May 23, 2026
Mary Alice Orito
bits’n’pieces
As a mixed media artist, Mary Alice Orito always keeps a box of bits’n’pieces of paper from prior exhibitions. Recycling, she creates collages of these torn and cut pieces of paper.
April 28 to May 23, 2026
Marilyn Banner
Throughlines
In this exhibition Marilyn Banner looks at themes and approaches that have appeared and reappeared in much of her work over decades. This exhibition brings to light these “throughlines” spanning a broad variety of media and subject.
April 28 to May 23, 2026
Tania Kravath
Tending Hope
Kravath’s sculptures examine relationship and belonging and engage with themes of memory and identity. The exhibition reflects on the qualities we nurture as we move through life.
March 31 – April 25, 2026
Susan Grabel
Lost My Husband / Lost My Country
This work is a meditation on personal grief over the death of a beloved husband and national grief over the current assault on truth, decency, and democratic values and norms.
March 31 – April 25, 2026
Melanie Hickerson
Homage to Miracles
The monarch butterfly is endangered. These miracles are being crushed by humanity. It is a joy to be alive with these miracles. Melanie Hickerson is painting an homage to miracles.
March 3 – 28, 2026
Micaela de Vivero
Qhapaq Ñan
In this exhibition, Micaela de Vivero’s explores two historic artifacts used in Andean civilizations before European colonization: the khipu and the tocapu. In this exhibition she explores and inserts them into her contemporary artistic practice.miracles.
March 3 – 28, 2026
Nina Fletcher
Threads
Artist, Nina Fletcher, has worked with fabric her whole life. Threads pays tribute to this extraordinary, versatile and undersung medium)
March 3 – 28, 2026
Jayne Bentley Gaskins
Heartbeat of the City
The speed and modes of people’s movements create each city’s unique heartbeat. The images in this exhibition are enhanced by motion-activated sounds to further enhance the depicted environment.
February 3 – 28, 2026
Elizabeth DeMayo
Polaroid Revisions EXPOSURE
DeMayo’s photographic images of the natural world, printed onto paper and canvas, are altered to enhance their lines, shapes, hues, and suggestions of figures or faces.
February 3 – 28, 2026
Minako Ito
Welcome to Minako’s World
In this exhibition of colorful lithographs, Ito presents the moments and pleasures of daily life through her memorable landscapes and objects. These prints welcome the viewer to her world.
January 6 – 31, 2026
Textile Study Group Of New York
Traces and Testimonies
This important juried exhibition consists of work created by members of the Textile Study Group of New York (TSGNY). Juror Marjorie Frankel Nathanson has curated an exhibition that explores themes of memory, identity and cultural narrative reflecting on place and belonging.
November 25 – December 20, 2025
EXPOSURE
Ceres’ annual project to provide a showing opportunity for a diverse group pf artists bringing their singular voices to the Chelsea Arts District. Each of the three weeks will consist of ten artists min-solo exhibitions with a reception each Thursday evening.
October 28 – November 22, 2025
Christine Mottau
The New England drawings -2001-2008
Christine Mottau presents The New England Drawings 2001-2008, a retrospective of work that has never been shown before. These abstract drawings are oil bar on paper and interpret the landscape of Wellfleet Massachusetts and the Monadnock region of New Hampshire.
October 28 – November 22, 2025
Nancy Kahlow-Curtis
The Scarlet Studies
A Series of large-scale charcoal drawings on scarlet paper make up this provocative exhibition. The imaginative drawings, inspired by objects of antiquity, celebrate the mystery of ritual and the evolution of symbolic expression.
September 30 – October 25, 2025
Heidi Kumao
Fabrications: Stitched and Animated
Based on real events, these tactile works use dark humor to depict potent moments in conversations, relationships, the workplace, and the media.
September 30 – October 25, 2025
Elizabeth Myers Castonguay
Unraveling (Tapestry of Nature)E.M.Castonguay’s life and work has been dedicated to creating art that celebrates human diversity and the biodiversity of nature. A portion of sales from this exhibition goes to nonprofits that support justice for all species.
September 2 – 27, 2025
Marcy Bernstein
Evocative Abstraction/Contemporary Relics
Large-scale paintings which are evocative combinations of paint, photographic abstractions, and wax on distressed surfaces, populate this exhibition. These are dreamy paintings, crackling with vibrant energy, and filled with allusions to sex and creativity.
September 2 – 27, 2025
Carlyle Upson
Submerged
Carlyle Upson’s saturated paintings of kelp, seaweed and seagrass are inspired by her ongoing experiences with Sacred Heart University’s Citizen Science program administered by the Maritime Aquarium in Long Island Sound. The artist’s oceanic watercolors capture filtered light on undersea plants
