Solo/Duo 3
May 26 – June 20, 2026
Ceres Gallery 541 West 27th Street. Chelsea NY

Liz Ndoye, mixed media/fiber artist, and Jo-Ann Brody, Sculptor, in the third iteration of Solo/Duo

SOLO / Duo 3 – Culture and Stance, a blended show. Brody and Ndoye have shown together before. 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 captures the fictional cultural milieu of her dolls.

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. She will attempt to convey and share her passion for and joyous communion with her doll creations. She will makes dolls, paint and draw them, and create installations that celebrate their healing, happy qualitiesMara 

Brody’s figures continue to focus on gesture and stance through her lens of figurative work. The brain recognizes a figure with very few cues. We know it is a person, a woman. We are hard wired for that so despite distortion, exaggeration, mis-proportion, and incorrect anatomy we recognize what is before us. Brody creates a line in space through linear elements. Heads have always been more of a punctuation point. This year, books have returned to her forms of expression with each book 6 leaves of torsos with a full figure as a spine. Each book has a story line written on the inside of the leaves.

Papier mache is made from a mixture of papers, paper pulp and glue. There is no armature. Structure comes from rolled paper tubes. Mulberry paper and rice paper add to the texture and look of many of the pieces. Other pieces are made from ClayCrete, papier mache pulp mixed with glues and remain white. Each piece is at least 3 layers of paper and is then finished with varnish.

Work in progress!