The artwork of Liz Ndoye and the artwork of Ibou Ndoye are featured in our Upper Gallery exhibit, “Adjacent.” The show runs from Sunday, March 6th until Sunday, May 1st. There is an opening reception on Sunday, March 6 from 2 – 5pm. Ms. Ndoye and Mr. Ndoye will recorded an Artist Talk on Friday, March 4 at 7 pm. Click here to watch.

Ms. Ndoye and Mr. Ndoye are accomplished artists, showing their work for well over 20 years. They each have dozens of solo and group show credits in the greater New York City area. Mr. Ndoye additionally has shown in: Indianapolis, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Washington DC, Germany, and Senegal.

Ms. Ndoye works in mixed media and fiber, including installations. After teaching in Australia and the U.S. and traveling extensively throughout the world, she has spent the last two decades creating soft sculpture that she calls her “dolls”. She has become so deeply involved with these creatures that she has crafted a rich and lively culture around their “way of life” – including a language, religion, and governmental structure. Ms. Ndoye depicts all these activities and cultural constructs in her drawings, paintings, and installations. Her passion and love for her doll creatures is evident in the lively and playful compositions of her work. To learn more about Liz Ndoye and her artwork, visit her website here. 

Ibou Ndoye works in mixed media and glass painting. He was born in West Africa’s most progressive capital city, Dakar, Senegal. His mother made her living as a dressmaker while his grandmother worked as a tie-dye artist. Regularly surrounded by colorful African textiles and fabrics, Mr. Ndoye says he “socialized with art and cohabited with colors” from a very young age. He further shares, “My paintings are 100% social, in the sense that they have  social functions which allow the viewer to deal with all the social ethics of modern and traditional life. They are the  short stories from oral traditions that teach, inform, awake and communicate with your subconscious.” To learn more about Ibou Ndoye and his artwork, visit his website here. 

The Museum is thrilled to feature the work of these two established artists and we are intrigued to see what will happen when Ms. Ndoye’s and Mr. Ndoye’s artwork is “Adjacent” to the other’s.

The exhibit is supported by a block grant from the State/County Partnership program for the Arts, administered by the Hudson County Division of Cultural and Heritage Affairs.