Recent
Exhibitions
November 26 - December 19
Color My World:
featuring select gallery artists
Participating Artists:
Leda Arensberg, Frederick Ballet, Ellen Bradshaw, Len DeLuca, Barbara Fracchia, Joan Gantz, David Hathaway, Lisa Ocasio Hirkaler, Rolando Jorif, Ann Kraus, Soren Nellemann, Carol Nussbaum, Suyapa Quinn, Mitchell Rodbell, Katie Simmons, Heather Stivison, John Vlahakis, and Joyce Weidener.
October 29 - November 23, 2024
Ann Kraus:
Spirit in the Sky
A celebration of the eternal skyscape both ordinary and extraordinary while highlighting the beauty of our natural environment.
Walking into the Pleiades Gallery and viewing Ann Kraus’s show Spirit In The Sky is an awe inspiring experience. This is the third solo show of the artist and her signature work of clouds and skyscapes are abundant. The colors and shapes dance on the walls and are both common yet inspiring in their simplicity and uniqueness.
The outside world ceases to exist in these works of meditation. We are drawn in to contemplate the issues of our fragile world and the infinite beauty that can go unnoticed in our daily lives. On the Horizon, whispers a subliminal message where the sunrise triumphs over the night’s darkness. And the Stockholm Sunset vibrates with joy and resilience at day’s end.
An artist with her “head in the clouds” and “feet on the ground” has produced a breath of fresh air in her new show. We are reminded to simply look to the heavens to allow our own spirits to soar.
October 1 - 26, 2024
Elizabeth Cody:
Shapes in Dialogue
Artist Statement: I make unusual colorful shapes in dialogue with other shapes. I strive for a precise individual color, line, volume and placement on the picture plane. I’m interested in how these dimensions affect each other.
It's in the nature of humans to reflexively seek clues to the story or meaning of the painting. As soon as a shape becomes recognizable, it's co-opted by the viewer as a meaningful clue in a narrative they want to build around the image. If that enhances the viewer’s interest or emotional response to the painting that’s welcome.
Within an abstract painting, I can find my hand in motion running ahead of my brain and forming the shape of a recognizable thing, like a tulip or a rose. If a viewer wants a painting to say something, these few absentmindedly drawn identifiable objects can be clues, but no more than clues. Remember more often than not the painting isn’t a story; it just is.
September 3 - 28, 2024
Joseph O’Neill:
He, She, Them, Us
July 9 - August 3, 2024
David Hathaway:
Transformations - A Metamorphosis
Transformations - a Metamorphosis is a retrospective and transformation of David Hathaway’s work from photography to abstract paintings. He studied art and design at Pratt institute and Mercy University as well as Kinosaito Arts Center. His work has been exhibited in Europe and the United States.
June 11 - July 6, 2024
Heather Stivison:
Borders and Boundaries
Heather Stivison: Borders and Boundaries is a solo exhibition of interdisciplinary works exploring borders and boundaries in terms of our basic human need for a place to call home. The artist places present-day issues of migration and border wars into both current and historical contexts. The narrative works in the exhibition are a tapestry of drawings, paintings, textiles, and found objects created from the point of view of a woman and a mother.
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May 14 - June 8, 2024
Pleiades Gallery 50th Anniversary Exhibition
Featuring the work of: Leda Arensberg, Frederick Ballet, Ellen Bradshaw, Len DeLuca, Barbara Fracchia, David Hathaway, Lisa Ocasio Hirkaler, Sri Hunter, Ann Kraus, Joseph O'Neill, Carol Nussbaum, Mitchell Rodbell, Heather Stivison, and Joyce Weidenaar.
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April 16 - May 11, 2024
Joan Gantz: People, Places and Perspectives
Joan Gantz presents all new work inspired by a move after living in one place for three years. The exhibition is a record of the impressions and views resulting from the change.
March 19 - April 13, 2024
Carol Nussbaum: Mandala
Carol Nussbaum’s Mandala artwork comprises a variety of photographic subjects, ranging from children’s toys to paper goods, woven and repeated into a “mandala” or circle. Found in every culture and faith, a mandala is structured around a unifying center and represents both wholeness and the universe. Mandalas can be found in the circles of the sun, earth and moon but also in our circles of family and friendships. Carol notes, “Weaving elements of my travel photographs or even a trip to a farm stand into a mandala, brings a new mood or movement to the experience.” While typically used as a meditation aid, mandalas can also serve to center living and working spaces. Following a successful and award winning career in advertising, Carol Nussbaum joyfully exhibits her photographic mandalas in galleries and private collections.
February 20 - March 16, 2024
This is Photography
Featuring the work of Frederick Ballet, Len DeLuca, and Joseph O’Neill
A photograph is supposed to tell a story, while true in a classical sense, that is not the goal of this exhibition. Rather the artists want the viewer to discard stereotypes and focus on the emotional impact of the image. Abstraction allows the viewer to delve into the subconscious and spark imagination. Each artist approaches this differently. Joseph O’Neill uses color and geometric form taking inspiration from the buildings in Manhattan, Len DeLuca walks through the city and is drawn to wall posters with their shredded layers, colors and shapes creating unique abstract imagery, while Frederick Ballet uses the natural world to balance reality with abstraction to leave the viewer with a meditative sense of beauty, peace and timelessness.
No matter the composition, the artists wish to challenge the viewer to see the world in a new light, be it through metaphor, absurdity or beauty and delve deeper into their emotions.
January 25 - February 17, 2024
The 27th Annual Friends of Pleiades Invitational
Featuring the work of Susan Angeles, Frederick Ballet, RM Cimini, Stephen Cimini, Shelley Feinerman, Trine Giaever, Phoebe Hawkins, Iness Kaplun, Bongnam Kim, Bernice Sokol Kramer, Jill Law, Noor Smadi Menash, Linda Mikula, Duane Noblett, Roy Owsley, Janet Rutowski, Fredian Slips, and Tami Uyama.
