Westbeth Gallery is pleased to present its 2025 exhibitions.
- January 10 – January 26, 2025
PAIRIDAĒZA
Pairidaēza (Western idea of Paradise) is a group exhibition featuring works by Sam Sherman, Krista Gay, Ali Kaeini, Sasha Fishman, Kate Stone, Kitty Rauth, and Charlie Manion, curated by Celeste del Valle.
Opening reception Friday January 10th, 2025, 6-8pm
Conjuring imaginations of absentminded leisure, luxury, and eternal life, the mythic concept of paradise is both a primeval place of origin and an imminent, realizable future promised to the virtuous few. Even in our “secularism,” this notion continues to occupy a significant place in our collective consciousness.The artists brought together in this exhibition explore the tensions and questionsinherent to the paradise garden through varied media, methods, and narratives. Emblems of ritualism are interrupted and defanged, exposing cracks in the walls where a new telos may emerge.– Celeste del Valle
- February 5 – February 23, 2025
FUTURE PROOF
Curated by Jared Linge.
Featured Artists: Jeffrey Bishop, Jacob Cartwright, Joanne Freeman, Lynne Harlow, Carl E. Hazelwood, Pinkney Herbert, Jane Logemann, Stephen Maine, Russell Maltz, Tom McGlynn, Manfred Mohr, Lisa E. Nanni, Jim Osman, Sonita Singwi, Melissa Staiger, Jason Stopa, and Li Trincere
Opening reception Wednesday February 5th, 6-9 pm
Future Proof is a group show curated by Jared Linge for American Abstract Artists, featuring 17 of the group’s members. This exhibition examines the way that longevity in art can meaningfully shape communities and cultural landscapes over time. Here, “longevity” refers to the ability of art to endure, develop, and proliferate on its own terms, regardless of trends and circumstances. In an industry where social media and the art market reduce discourse to an endless succession of changing fashions, Future Proof positions communities of career-long practices as an alternative model. In this context, longevity is achieved both in open systems of making, and an intergenerational collaborative spirit.
- March 2 – March 26, 2025*
- March 31 – April 22, 2025*
- April 27 – May 25, 2025*
- June 1 – June 25, 2025*
- June30 – July 26, 2025*
- August 2 – August 25, 2025*
- September 1 – September 29, 2025*
- October 6 – November 5, 2025*
- November 13 – December 27, 2025*
THE FARAWAY NEARBY
Curated by Jiyeon Paik.
Featured Artists: Lipika Bhargava, Naho Taruishi, Jamie Ho, Junli Song, sooim lee, Xinyi Liu, Kazumi Tanaka, Jayoung Yoon
Opening reception date TBD
The Faraway Nearby (TFN) is a curatorial project that explores different ways the process of dialogue unfolds between Asian women artists, engendering feelings of both empathy and solidarity. The five-month dialogue journey between four pairs of artists will be documented weekly on the website, and these archives translate into an exhibition. By celebrating the diversity and creativity of Asian women artists, fostering community
and connection, and challenging stereotypes and prejudices, The Faraway Nearby project serves as a testament to the resilience and impact of these artists, demonstrating their ability to create meaningful dialogue that transcends boundaries and time.
MANIFEST IMAGES
Featured Artists: Daniel Berlin, Cathy Cone, Dale Emmart, Jebah Baum, Gwen Fabricant, Jonathan Fabricant, Christina Maile, Claire Rosenfeld
Opening reception date TBD
Westbeth residents, visual artists Claire Rosenfeld and Jebah Baum propose to present a curated exhibition of prints by eight printmakers working in diverse printmaking media. The scope of the exhibit will include lithographs, screenprints, relief prints, photogravures, monotypes, collage prints and encaustic prints. There will be 2/D framed pieces, 3/D scrolls, artist books and installation pieces. All of the works are by mid-career artists for whom printmaking is vital to their practice.
WHITNEY ISP SSTUDIO & CURATORIAL EXHIBITION(S)
Opening reception date and featured artists TBD
The ISP consists of three interrelated parts: Studio Program, Critical Studies Program,and Curatorial Program. The ISP provides a setting within which students pursuing art practice, curatorial work, art historical scholarship, and critical writing engage in ongoing discussions and debates that examine the historical, social, and intellectual conditions of artistic production. The program encourages the theoretical and critical study of the
practices, institutions, and discourses that constitute the field of culture.
RUTGERS MFA EXHIBITION
Group show featuring Rutgers’ MFA student’s work.
Opening reception and featured artists TBD
4 SOLOS SHOWS: Avri Ohana, Masha Neverova, Faten Gaddes and Tami Luchow
Opening reception date TBD
Avri Ohana’s retrospective show in the main gallery, will trace his artistic development starting as a young teenager in Morocco, drawing landscapes. The exhibition will followhis development throughout the next seventy years as he evolved to be a multi style painter working and for whom the freedom to create in any given manner and subject continues to be of essence.
French Tunisian artist Faten Gaddes will present “Halwa” in gallery 1, a reborn project that the artist has been working on for several years. “Halwa”, meaning sweet (in Arabic), is a set of multimedia mixing installation, photographs and video.
Masha Neverova will present Footholds in gallery 2. The exhibition will include works made after moving to New York — paintings and graphics based on plants growing in flower beds, parks and on the streets around my new home. The exhibition will also include works made in Israel, Georgia and Belarus.
Tami Luchow’s DIS IS LIFE : DIS IS ME : DIS IS US will be shown in gallery 3 of
Westbeth gallery. The multimedia exhibit includs photographs, videos, sculptures,mixed-media, interactive dynamics, and poetry with a constant FOCUS and emphasis on representation.
Hommage to Lucienne Weinberger (To Be Confirmed)
I MANIFEST
Opening reception date and featured artists TBD
Curated by Perdita Sinclair and Mark Fraser-Betts, “I Manifest” brings together 8 artists from different backgrounds and nationalities to examine themes of space, solidity, reality, marginalization, personal survival, and organizational structures.
This multimedia show will feature sculpture, video, painting, performance and installation. The curation would utilize the four gallery spaces in Westbeth to create harmonies, tensions, and conversations between the works and invite viewers to consider their own relationship to space and visibility.
The work in the exhibition will be bold, vulnerable, intrepid, playful, carry unapologetic strength and can be accessed on different levels. In addition, the exhibition will include a private view, panel discussion, and free creative workshops for young people. The panel discussion would delve deeper into the concept of occupying space in the art world and beyond, addressing issues of representation, power dynamics, and activism.
WHITNEY STAFF
This recurring annual group show presents the Whitney museum’s staff selection of
artworks.
Opening reception date and featured artists TBD
The Whitney Staff Art Show—an exhibition that celebrates and showcases the many artists who work at the Whitney Museum of American Art—will take place at Westbeth Gallery in July 2024. The seventh iteration of the free exhibition will highlight dozens of works created by staff members from all divisions of the Whitney and deepen already-strong connections between the neighborhood, the artistic community, and the Museum.
WESTBETH WINTER ART SHOW
Opening reception date and featured artists TBD
This yearly group show celebrates Westbeth’s visual artists, presenting in one show up to 100 different artistic practices through one artwork per artist.
* Dates are approximated
