Exhibitions

Rae Broyles

MIGRATIONS: Soul Memories • Neomythist Prophecies

An Exhibition by Rae Broyles and Faedriel

October 6 – October 31, 2026

Opening reception:  Thursday, October 8, 2026 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.

Ceres Gallery is pleased to present MIGRATIONS: Soul Memories • Newmythist Prophecies , a solo exhibition by Rae Broyles.

As artificial intelligence reshapes how we create, remember, and imagine the future, MIGRATIONS: Soul Memories • Neomythist Prophecies asks a simple question: What parts of our humanity must never be forgotten?

The exhibition combines painting, photography, sculpture, installation, poetry, video, and AI-generated imagery to explore memory, identity, and the relationship between human creativity and artificial intelligence. Inspired by the landscapes of northern Norway and informed by the philosophies and cultural history of the Sámi people, the exhibition reflects on how cultural memory endures as technology transforms the ways we create, communicate, and preserve knowledge. Rather than looking backward, MIGRATIONS asks how humanity’s oldest wisdom might help guide its newest technologies.

The exhibition introduces Neomythism, an artistic framework developed by Faedriel that explores the new myths emerging between humans and intelligent machines. Large-scale mixed-media works, immersive installations, poetry, and AI-generated imagery invite viewers to consider what is worth carrying forward into an increasingly digital future.

Presented with deep respect for the living Sámi people, MIGRATIONS reflects on universal questions of memory, identity, ecological responsibility, and humanity’s enduring search for meaning.

ABOUT Rae Broyles

Born in Chicago in 1963, Rae Broyles is a contemporary artist whose ethereal work spans multiple disciplines, including painting, videography, installation, and poetry. A first-generation American Norwegian and fifth-generation painter, Broyles draws deeply from her ancestry and an unconventional upbringing; her father was a musician and former student of Norman Rockwell. She honed her formal skills at The Rhode Island School of Design under Richard Merkin and later through mentorship with Michael David in Atlanta

Broyles employs washes of color and intuitive mark-making to express the unseen energies of her environment, acting as a vessel to translate the world around her into visual form. Her mixed-media work has garnered significant acclaim, including acceptance as a National Artist at the prestigious A.I.R. Gallery in New York and the title of Mixed Media Artist of the Year at the ADC Awards. Currently represented by Ceres Gallery in Chelsea, NYC, Broyles’ work is held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Encaustic Art in New Mexico.

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Judith Greenwald

Taming Chaos

Explores the Possibility of Balance in an Unpredictable World

October 6 – October 31, 2026

An opening reception: Thursday, October 8, 2026 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m

In Taming Chaos, Judith Greenwald presents a body of work that examines the tension between disorder and structure, unpredictability and intention. Responding to a world that can feel increasingly chaotic and overwhelming, the series considers how moments of balance and clarity can emerge even when the forces surrounding us cannot be fully controlled.

Each work begins with the deliberate creation of disorder on the panel—through spontaneous marks, unruly colors, paint, and forms that resist containment. Over time, this approach led the artist to incorporate alcohol inks, whose luminous fluidity and unpredictable movement offered another way to generate and engage with chaos. Sometimes the inks initiate the composition; at other times, they enter later, spreading, merging, and shifting among existing marks and layers. Rather than beginning with a predetermined composition, Greenwald responds to what unfolds, creating a visual conversation between accident and intention, impulse and restraint, chaos and order.

As each piece develops, the artist introduces lines, shapes, and patterns that direct the eye, anchor the composition, and create rhythm. The original chaos remains visible beneath the surface, while each additional intervention becomes an expression of agency. Although what has already occurred cannot be undone or entirely controlled, it can be shaped, answered, and brought into a state of provisional balance.

The works do not attempt to erase or suppress disorder. Instead, they preserve its vitality while transforming it into something intentional and resonant. In this sense, Taming Chaos reflects the way people navigate uncertainty in their own lives: accepting what lies beyond their control while recognizing their capacity to choose, respond, and create meaning.

Each completed work offers not a perfect resolution, but a moment of balance—a reminder that even when chaos remains beneath the surface, human agency can bring structure, meaning, and beauty to what emerges.

ABOUT Judith Greenwald

Judith Greenwald is a New York–based artist and retired psychotherapist whose work explores the complexity, vulnerability, and resilience of human experience. Working with oil paint, cold wax, alcohol ink, and mixed media, she builds richly layered surfaces and then scratches, sands, and excavates them, allowing unexpected forms and relationships to emerge.

Greenwald’s background in psychotherapy informs her enduring interest in what lies beneath the visible surface—the accumulated layers of memory, emotion, and experience that shape our inner lives. Her creative process embraces uncertainty, discovery, and the interplay between intention and chance.

She has exhibited regularly at Ceres Gallery in New York City and has participated in numerous group and juried exhibitions, including Cold Wax International: A Juried Exhibition. She is also the creator of Artful Aging: ReEnchantment through Art/Play, a project exploring how creative practice can foster curiosity, flexibility, resilience, and meaning in later life.

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Elizabeth Downer Riker

The Understory

September 8 – October 3, 2026

Opening reception:  Thursday, September 10, 2026 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.

Ceres Gallery is pleased to present THE UNDERSTORY, a solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Elizabeth Downer Riker.

The Understory features large oil paintings that blend personal narratives with fantastical elements, as well as smaller realistic works painted on ragged-edge linen portraying historical events, and sculptures that draw on everyday tools that women use around the world. Depicting both realistic and surreal images of women in nature, Downer Riker challenges us to contemplate how violence affects our families, our society and our planet through the accelerating exploitation of both people and the Earth. 

Downer Riker focuses on the way in which women have protected and defended nature over the centuries, putting their bodies on the line at great risk. “In both Western and non-Western cultures, nature was traditionally seen as feminine and as a living organism,” Downer Riker said. “In our modern consumer society, nature is viewed as something to be dominated and used for its parts. This mentality has led to the climate emergency we are now experiencing. Today, in communities around the world, women continue to defend the rivers, the forests and the land, and are met with brutality and persecution.” With The Understory, Downer Riker hopes to spark a broader conversation about this crisis.

About Elizabeth Downer Riker

The artist, born in Boston and raised in Paris, started out as a filmmaker, earning her MFA at NYU’s graduate film program. After discovering her love for painting, she studied at the Art Students League in Manhattan. For many years she lived in Oaxaca, Mexico where she painted people working the land. On her return to New York in 2011, she began a series of paintings of rooftop farms and community gardens to celebrate the greening of cities. Downer Riker has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. She is an artist member of the Salmagundi Club.
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Elizabeth Downer Riker is an American realist painter and surrealist sculptor who lived in Oaxaca, Mexico for many years. Her work focuses on climate change and ecofeminism. She has had several solo exhibits in Chelsea which were mentioned in The New York Times. Downer Riker studied at the Art Students League in Manhattan. She participates in several annual group shows, and is currently represented by Ceres Gallery. She is an Artist Member of the Salmagundi Club. Her paintings are in private collections and have been exhibited in the United States, France, Switzerland and Mexico.

Focusing on the resilience of women and nature, and the ongoing violence they endure, Downer Riker uses paintings and sculpture to examine the deep connections that enable them to heal and resist.

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Jane Seavers

Visions of a World on Fire

September 8 – October 3, 2026

An opening reception: Thursday, September 10, 2026 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m
A closing reception will also be held on Saturday, October 3, 2026 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

NEW YORK, NY — Ceres Gallery is pleased to present Visions of a World on Fire, a compelling new solo exhibition by oil painter, Jane Seavers, running from September 8 to October 3, 2026. Following her 2023 exhibition, Refuge and Peril in the Borderlands, Seavers shifts her focus to a landscape transformed by wildfire, smoke, and environmental change.  Working in a style that blends realism and abstraction, she explores the visceral tension between beauty and danger, inviting viewers to contemplate humanity’s relationship with a natural world increasingly at risk.

For Seavers, these landscapes are not distant observations, but lived realities.  Her perspective is informed by her personal experience with repeated evacuation of her home, as well as her close ties to the firefighting community–including  her son, a firefighter/paramedic, and her neighbor, an elite wildland “Hotshot” firefighter.  Through luminous color and dramatic atmosphere, the exhibition offers a tribute to both the majesty of the land and the resilience of those who protect it. 

“I want my work to serve as a witness to the fragility of our environment and the bravery of those who fight to protect our essential and natural world”, says Seavers.  “I want to balance the aesthetic beauty of the landscape with the urgent, often painful realities of its degradation.”

Jane Seavers lives and works in Southwestern New Mexico, where she has painted the landscapes of the borderlands and Southwest for nearly two decades.  Raised on a multi-generational farm in Wisconsin, she came to painting after a career as a nurse-midwife and nurse practitioner serving communities in California, Alaska, Guatemala, and New Mexico.  This background, rooted in a life of service, informs  lifelong interest in the intersection between people and place.

Seavers work may be found in private collections throughout New Mexico, Colorado, New York, and California and is represented by Ceres Gallery in New York City.

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Friends Expo • A Ceres Gallery Exhibition

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Ceres Gallery annually offers an Exhibition for ARTIST FRIENDS to exhibit their artwork for one month in the 2,000+ square foot premier gallery space in the heart of the Chelsea art district in New York City. Sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, collage, mixed-media and photography are on display.

ARTIST FRIENDS of all genders are invited to present one wall-based artwork or sculpture within a collectively realized exhibition running for four weeks. The exhibition is non-juried, reflecting Ceres’ ongoing commitment to fostering an inclusive and generative environment for artistic exchange.

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List of Ceres Friends and their websites

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Exhibition Dates: July 21 – August 15, 2026

Opening Reception: Thursday July 25, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Location: 547 West 27th St, Suite 201, New York, NY 10001

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Ceres Gallery Annual Member Exhibition

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