An exhibit featuring paintings of NYC community gardens is currently on display at Ceres Gallery, between 27th Street & 10th Avenue.
Above: “October Harvest” and “Bird’s-Eye View of Brooklyn Grange-Future” by Elizabeth Downer Riker.
I’m not much of a believer in fate or anything adjacent to it, but I suppose sometimes God or whoever is up there just feels like testing me. Currently on display at Ceres Gallery, on 27th Street between 10th & 11th Avenues, is a collection of paintings of NYC community and rooftop gardens by artist Elizabeth Downer Riker. I reached out to Elizabeth last week and informed her of our own serendipitous efforts to build a community garden at the vacant lot on 29th Street & 10th Avenue. She is rooting us on.
The New York Times uncharacteristically beat us to the punch in reporting on this: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/dining/elizabeth-downer-riker-urban-farming.html. Thanks to Susan Numeroff (as usual) for sending me the article.
Ceres Gallery is open on Tuesday-Saturday from 12-6pm, and this exhibit will be on display through May 22. I’ll probably stop by this Saturday to see it, because some things were just meant to be.
