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…mary
Multi-Media Exhibition
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 5, 6:00–8:00 PM
Meet the Artist Reception: Saturday, November 7, 1:00–3:00 PM
Closing Reception: Saturday, November 28, 1:00–3:00 PM
547 West 27th St
Suite 201
New York, NY 10001
Website: CeresGallery.org
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 12 pm – 6 pm
NEW YORK, NY — Ceres Gallery is pleased to present Centering in the Midst of Chaos, an exhibition of oil paintings, digital artwork, and an immersive installation by artist Mary Ahern.
This exhibition is a multidisciplinary work by Ahern, using paint, pixels, sound, and soil to explore the counterbalance between centering and chaos. It brings together lifelong threads of Ahern’s creative practice, including philosophy, symbolism, and the tension between what can be touched and what can only be seen.
In her oil paintings, Ahern layers magnified florals from her own garden with abstractions drawn from images of the galaxy, inviting contemplation of harmony and balance across both the microcosm and macrocosm of existence. Circles and spheres run through the work and carry many meanings, among them the circle of life, meditation, and safety.
At the center of the exhibition is an immersive installation, A Space for Centering, which recreates on an intimate scale the calming effect of time spent close to plants and flowers, surrounded by the sights and sounds of nature.
About Mary Ahern
Mary Ahern is a multidisciplinary artist based in Northport, New York, working across oil painting, digital media, video, and installation. She earned dual degrees in fine arts and horticulture, and spent decades working in computer graphics and technology, combining the eye of an artist with the insight of a scientist.
Ahern’s work has been on view at multiple museums and arboretums, and is held in collections throughout the United States and internationally. She is represented by Ceres Gallery in Chelsea, New York, and her work is featured on Artsy and Bloomberg Connects.
Ceres Gallery is a feminist, not-for-profit alternative space in New York City dedicated to promoting contemporary women in the arts. Founded to expand opportunities for women artists, Ceres provides an inclusive exhibition space that raises public awareness and challenges the limited access women often face in commercial galleries.
Award-Winning Northport Artist, Mary Ahern, has been selected for a Solo Exhibition at the Locust Grove Historic Site in Poughkeepsie, NY
2683 South Road
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
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Mary Ahern, the renowned Northport artist, has been invited to display her award-winning Flower Portraits at the historic Locust Manor Historic Site in Poughkeepsie, NY, for a two-and-a-half-month solo exhibition. With degrees in both Fine Art and Horticulture, Mary has discovered that cultivation and creation are inseparable — her garden serving as both muse and teacher, its cycles of growth, senescence, and rebirth informing everything that emerges in her studio. Working in bold scale and vivid detail, she layers pigments to capture not just what flowers look like, but what they feel like, blending abstraction and realism into luminous paintings that pulse with life and color. Her Flower Portraits are celebrations of beauty and resilience, love letters to the natural world that invite viewers to look beyond surface appearances and discover their own connection to the living world around them.
