NBOSS North Burlington Vermont–Curated by Joe Chirchirillo NBOSS at Bennington Museum–Curated by Jamie Franklin
5-10/22
Collaborative Concepts at Red Mills Farm Farm
10/22-Dec. 4
Inspiration Art: Address Earth–Curated by Bibiana Huang Matheis Western Connecticut State Address Earth at the Gallery at the Visual & Performing Art Center at Western Connecticut State University, Danbury Connecticut.
9-10/22
Collaborative Concepts at Tilly Foster Farm
6/3, 4/22
Peekskill Arts Alliance Open Studios
5-6/22
Sculpture in the Audience, Studio Theater in Exile at HUDSON VALLEY MOCA
Gourd Women, Cement, clayGaiaMY AMERICAN FAMILY, cementNomi, Tilly Foster FarmSeated Figure (Trees)Seated Figures At Opeen Studios 2022NIN ORDER: RED MILLS FARM, NBOSS, NBOSS at BURLINGTON MUSEUM, SCULPTURE IN THE AUDIENCE, TILLY FOSTER FARM, ADDRESS EARTH-TREES, BLOOMS, OPEN STUDIOS,
“Solo/Duo—Culture and Stance Jo-Ann Brody and Liz Ndoye Ceres Gallery NYC
Reception: Saturday, February 26, 3-5 pm
Brody, Pauline’s Apple Tree, Papier mache, 15.25 x 11 x 4.5″, 2022Liz Ndoye, Tumbling Dolls, Uniball pen on paper, 11 x 8″, 2021
Ceres Gallery presents Jo-Ann Brody, sculptor, and Liz Ndoye, mixed media/fiber artist, in SOLO / Duo – Culture and Stance, a blended show.Brody and Ndoye have shown together before but this is their first blended show. Their work and styles compliment each other. Both are figurative artists but their approaches are unique to their individual concepts. Brody is focused on the form and stance of her figures while Ndoye is trying to capture the fictional cultural milieu of her dolls. Brody started with clay sculpture; she moved to cement to create larger, life sized women. Both materials are from the earth and retained their earth tones; currently she is working in papier mache—still figurative but now with color and collaged image from her photography and from magazines and books. The forms are familiar but the addition of image and color adds a new dimension. There are references to her surroundings encountered on daily walks. Stance remains paramount to her work. Liz Ndoye continues her love affair with her doll “creatures” – soft, fabric, humanoid figures that she makes and installs in tandem with her large canvases and drawings in order to depict aspects of their doll culture and existence. In this, her latest show at Ceres, she will attempt to convey and share her passion for and joyous communion with her doll creations. She makes dolls, paints and draws them, and creates installations that celebrate their healing, happy qualities. Mara Mills, Studio of Theater in Exile, Donna Barkman, and Jo-Ann Brodywill read Perfect Mind. a poem written by a woman 600 AD, which Mills adapted to fit the exhibit. The reading is offered on screen at the exhibition, and online on Ceres, Studio Theater in Exile, and Hudson Valley MOCA’s websites.
The artists will be in the gallery by appointment.
All Covid restrictions will be followed.
Seated FIgure (Plane Geometry, 2021, Papier Mache over foam, 24.5 x 12.5 x 16 inchesSeated FIgure (Food), 2022, Papier Mache over foam, 42.5 x 19 x 22.5 inchesSeated FIgure (Blossumsd), 2022 Papier Mache over foamSeated FIgure (Trees), 2022, Papier Mache over foam, 44 x 19 x 27.5 inchesSeated FIgure, 2020, Papier Mache over foam, 48 x 22 x 18 inches
Seated Figures
Trio, 2020, Papier Mache, 22-24 inches tallTrees Figure, 2022, Papier Mache, 14 x 7.5 x 3.5 inches“Trees Figure, 2020, Papier Mache, 14.5 x 7.5 x 5.5 inchesMagnolia/Figure, 2022, Papier Mache, 18 x 13 x5 inchesBrody-Standing figure, Ndoye-Uniball on paper Ndoye-mural, Brody-Seated figuresSign and entrance to smaller room4 SeasonsBrody’s cornerTrio Artwork in the Gallery
Figure on a Bench, Colored cement over foam, in situ at Highland Falls
This May Highland Falls opened its outdoor Sculpture Art Walk. The Art Walk, featuring sculptures, gives a quiet respite from Covid and a moment of peaceful inspiration and reflection. On a lone bench a life-size concrete woman sits, watching passersby in their necessary activities, and waits for a conversation. She’ll sit and listen without interrupting you. Figure Sitting on a Bench, in Ladycliff Park, is the creation of Jo-Ann Brody. Not far away in the park a colorful mosaic Yoga bird, created by Barbara Galazzo and Carol Flaitz, with arms outstretched reminds us to socially distance and looks ahead to the day we can all hug again.
The Art Walk is a half-mile-long stretch of 18 large-scale sculptures gracefully lining the Orange County town’s Main Street. Originally the brain child of Nicole Shea of the Eisenhower Leadership Center at West Point in 2015, the project is now run by the Chamber of Commerce with the help of a jury committee. The jury committee has worked with Collaborative Concepts, a nonprofit art organization, based in Putnam County, to support and exhibit professional sculpture since it’s inception.
The Art Walk was originally conceived as an attraction to stimulate interest in Main Street and from those visiting West Point. Minutes from the Bear Mountain Bridge and close to Storm King this Art Walk is easily accessible to all in the Hudson Valley. After a hiatus, the Art Walk happily returns this year.
The Art gives those visiting West Point an opportunity to take pause, get a cup of coffee and spend time strolling in the town of Highland Falls and be inspired by the art. Given the turmoil and fear of the last year, those travelling to enjoy the Village and art will find it a quiet moment of respite in the sea of unpredictability.
Highland Falls Art Walk is brought to you by the Town of Highland Chamber of Commerce and Orange County. “This project is made possible with funds from the Orange County Executive Arts, Heritage & Tourism Grant program.” Highland Falls gratefully acknowledges support for its program from Otocast.com.
NBOSS 2021 June 19th thru November 7th 2021
Dialog, Colored cement over foam and rebar
NBOSS at the Museum Bennington Museum, Bennington VT
My American Family, Colored cement over metal, pic pipe over rebar
Now in its 24th year, the North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show (NBOSS) is the longest running outdoor sculpture exhibition in Southern Vermont. From June 19th to November 7th, large-scale outdoor works will be featured throughout the historic village of North Bennington, at the Hiland Hall Gardens, and on the 10-acre campus of Bennington Museum in Old Bennington. This exhibition is a must-see addition to the regional art trail that connects Southern Vermont cultural destinations such as Bennington Museum, Bennington College, and the Southern Vermont Arts Center with MassMoca, The Clark Art Institute, Williams College Museum of Art, Art Omi, Chesterwood, and The Mount. For the 9th year in a row, local artist Joe Chirchirillo will curate this premier cultural event, and for the 2nd consecutive year, he will be joined by Jamie Franklin at Bennington Museum. For the summer and fall of 2021, the team has brought together over 50 internationally recognized and emerging artists from the surrounding area with their works split between the two locations: 45 pieces in North Bennington (including 4 pieces at the Hiland Hall Gardens), and 29 pieces at Bennington Museum. These creations can be enjoyed at no cost and at the viewer’s convenience. Sculptures are available for purchase from the artists, and maps are available on-site.
“Between the village of North Bennington and the museum’s grounds there will be nearly 75 outdoor sculptures by some of the best artists working in Vermont and the larger northeast region. That’s a density of high quality public artwork, accessible free to the public all summer and through the fall from dawn to dusk, that is hard to beat! Building on our pandemic inspired partnership begun last year, I am excited to see museum guests continue to explore the museum’s 10-acre property – from our Courtyard, with live music and food every Friday night, and the George Aiken Wildflower Trails, with its native planting, to our upper meadow with beautiful expansive views, and the intimate Jennings Brook trail, with its classic forest setting with a lovely babbling brook – simultaneously discovering the beauty and power of our region’s landscape and artistic community.” – Jamie Franklin, Curator at The Bennington Museum
Collaborative Concepts @ Tilly Foster Farm September 1 to October 30, 2021
Brody’s this year was cancelled due to an accident. Below is the maquette of what was proposed.
In one year fill the 96 pages of your notebook with drawings/sketches, poetry, writing, lyrics, journaling, word art, cartoons, puzzles, collages+, questions, photos, image montages, rubber stamping, stickers, cutting, fold-outs, ideas, graphics, protests, digital art, abstractions, or non-objective art of color, line, texture, shapes, etc.
Highland Falls ArtWalk Highland Falls NY May 5-Oct 30
Figure on a Bench, 2011-2021, cement, cement colors
The closures and social distancing brought on by the coronavirus pandemic resulted in Ceres Gallery being closed from March 16, 2020 to September 8, 2020, a period of almost six months. Ceres has never before been closed for more than two or three weeks in its more than thirty-five year history. The quarantine separated our artists from each other and, in many cases, from their studios, for a previously unimaginable period of time.
But the artists of Ceres are indefatigable and so they enthusiastically planned a grand group exhibition for the reopening. We now bring you that exhibition, titled Life As It Is Now, expressing for each of the participating artists, how these difficult circumstances have affected their work and their lives. Through the mediums of painting, drawing, printing, photography and sculpture, communicating their point of view employing abstraction, representation or figuration, Ceres artists bring you their interpretation of the present moment in time, a moment certainly unparalleled in our lifetimes.
The pandemic, the election, the environmental, social and political upheavals and how artists see our world will be on view for three weeks. There will be no opening reception but the exhibition is open to the public. It would be best, however, if you called the gallery in advance of your visit, 212.947.6100. We are equipped with everything to make your visit safe and edifying.
40 Artists on a 199 acre farm Collaborative Concepts offers artists the freedom to create what they want, something grand, or silly, or experimental. It even gives them permission to fail. Experimental art has always been encouraged at the Collaborative Concepts Sculpture show.
My American Family at Tilly Foster Farm, PVC pipe, colored cement, rebar, dimensions variable.
This piece represent my family. My children are from Vietnam, Korea, and Brazil. We are presented on the colors of the American flag organized into a fence.
Collaborative Concepts
Enjoy major works of art in a timeless, pastoral setting.
This is our 15th annual sculpture exhibition on a Farm.
Collaborative Concepts brings together sculpture and installations by 40 participants on the rolling fields of the Tilly Foster Farm in Brewster. The exhibition presents artists from the region, NYC and Switzerland. You are also encouraged to visit any day of the week as the autumn colors change the backdrop of the art.
The exhibition is free and can be viewed from 10am to 4pm, Sept. 5 through Oct. 31. There is parking and maps on site.
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March 5-30, 2019 Ceres Gallery
547 West 27th Street, Suite 201
NYC 10001
212-947-6100 http://www.ceresgallery.org
Collaborative Concepts at Saunders Farm
August 31-October 27, 2019
Saunders Farm
853 Old Albany Post Road
Garrison NY 10524 http://www.collaborativeconcepts.org
North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show
Summer 2019
jo-ann brody 