CERES

584 Broadway Suite 306, New York, NY 10012

 212-226-4725

 Tues. - Sat. 11am - 6 pm

The following text and images were provided by Ceres.

Who We Are

Founded in 1983, Ceres is a non-profit alternative center dedicated to the
promotion of contemporary women in the arts. Ceres has defined itself
as feminist. We serve as a supportive base for a diversity of artistic and
political views. Ceres has 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 and that there is an
inherent power in art to enhance and enrich the quality and depth of our
lives.

What We Do

The Heart of Ceres' work is the exhibition season which consists of solo
exhibitions and curated group shows. In addition to its functions as a
gallery and community network for women artists, Ceres presents a wide
range of performances in such areas as music, poetry, and dance.
Performance artists collaborate with gallery artists to curate programs
for the exhibition season, which provide an important dialogue between
different disciplines with the New York community we serve.

How You Can Help

Please become a friend of Ceres. In addition to the small foundation and
government support we receive, your contribution to Ceres represents the
critical difference -- the difference that secures the exhibition of women
artists regardless of age, style, or commercial viability, provides the
financial stability for Ceres to grow as a commercial space, and allows
Ceres to be an expanding community network for artists across the
country. Your money does make a difference!

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

January 6 - January 31, 1998

Harriet Fields / Scribble Scrabble

Creating the language of scribble scrabble as an installation.

Judith Greenwald / Transitional Spaces

Utilizing hand-made and oriental papers, paint, plaster, metal,
wood, fabric, and found objects, this work is an attempt to
understand and articulate emotional experience.

February 3 - February 28, 1998

Carol Hamoy / Wondrous Women

Mixed media works describing the adventures and life experiences of extraordinary
men and women.

Welcome To America / Ceres Edition

An installation created by Carol Hamoy telling immigration stories
of Ceres' members and their relatives.

March 3 - March 28, 1998

Stefany Benson / Revised, Reformed, & Multiplied: 
Portrait of the Artist As a...?

Paintings and constructions containing portrait imagery divested
of its original coherence as a photographic subject.

Regina Araujo Corritore / Reversal Of Fortune: The Gambler's Way

This exhibition presents a series of painted steel sculptures
that deal with the "games of change."  This theme is concerned
with the ancient, prehistoric, human process of trying to change
one's fate through gambling.

March 31 - April 25, 1998

Carol Goebel / Flyers And Swimmers, Creepers And Crawlers

Fantasmagorical creatures of welded steel pulsate with life
on the gallery walls.

Sarah Schuster / If I Had Wings

An exhibition of multi-panel paintings dealing with longing
and desire.

April 28 - May 23, 1998

Renee Lerner / Recent Works Recalling Ancient Times

These abstract collages and assembled works signify a
present event sprung from an ancient past.  They embody a
diversity of human experiences.

Jane Stevens / Spirit Songs

Nature has a very healing effect on the spirit.  The trees,
sky, earth, and wind can comfort the soul.  The landscape
photographs in this series capture moments of spiritual
insight.

May 26 - June 20, 1998

Gallery Artists' Group Exhibition

A group exhibition featuring gallery artists who have not
had solo shows in 1997-1998

Marilyn Banner / The Light Works

This mixed media work explores issues of cultural roots,
remembrance, and personal myth.  Images of babies,
ancestors, roses, and wings combine with delicate and
translucent chiffon and gauze to suggest and upper
etheral realm.

June 23 - July 18, 1998

Ceres Third National Juried Show

Juror: Jacqueline Serwer, Chief Curator of the National Museum
of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.  To
receive a prospectus, send a SASE to Ceres, 584 Broadway,
New York, NY 10012

UPCOMING EVENTS

February 5 & 6, 1998 - 7 p.m.

PULSAR

Music by Kathleen Adkins, Riva Mittleman, Julie Sitney, Maria Torffield:
a women's percussion group.

February 20 & 21, 1998 - 7 p.m.

Joanne Schultz: Traces of a Mother

Traces of a Mother is a solo performance by Joanne Schultz
recovering the life and unconvering the mysterious death of
her mother.  Moving through a landscape of memory as
both performer and narrator she creates a theatrical collage
utilizing object and image theater, storytelling and song.

February 3 - F