• February 1 – February 26
  PAROXYSM Group Show curated by Alison Pirie(outside Westbeth)

Paroxysm is a group exhibition featuring 57 artists based in the tri-state area and abroad working across sculpture, photography, video, painting, and performance. The artists in the show examine and diagnose the physical, mental, and social symptoms of our disordered world, exploring concepts of building, accumulating, amassing, and the resulting spasms, bursts, explosions, and attacks.

• March 1 – March 26
  JOAN HALL: A 50 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE SOLO SHOW (Westbeth)

Joan Hall’s retrospective presents different groups of work in the mediums of collage and assemblage. Each room in the gallery is devoted to a series of work created at different stages of the artist’s life: Icons (figurative assemblages), collage, room and parcels (assemblages utilizing mirrors so the viewer sees themselves as if inside), string attached (a contemporary spin on old fashioned embroidery), the Paris project (conceptual mixed-media assemblages) and box constructions (Surrealistic found-object assemblages).

• March 29 – April 30
  LUMINOUS ELSEWHERES (outside Westbeth)

Luminous Elsewheres features the work of artists who have honed a vision of a personal ‘elsewhere’ that embodies its own radiant dimensionality. These visual explorations open up new ways of seeing, feeling and perceiving. Sourced primarily through intuition and the process of art making itself, the works included in this exhibit bring viewers closer to what Susan Sontag described as “the luminousness of the thing in itself.” Organized by Karen Fitzgerald, Denise Manteau and Alison Cuomo.

• May 3 – May 28
  ISA HO: RESONANCE – WESTBETH PROJECT (outside Westbeth)

This exhibition embodies my memories, which I share with the artists. I captured the essence of these beautiful and powerful people in my own way. The exhibition showcases a selection of works from 2013 to the present, including photography, videos, and documentaries, as well as a new NFT installation created in collaboration with artist Chen, Zhao-Hua. Additionally, the exhibition features portraits of the artists displayed alongside their work at the Westbeth artist housing. Through close contact for a long period of time, Isa Ho interviewed the tenants and used photography to explore the possibilities of life in different circumstances. 3D installations in the exhibition, using video and photography, reproduce the adaptations that the artists had made to their living space as their bodies aged.

• May 31 – June 25
  RUTGERS UNIVERSITY GROUP SHOW: PLAYBACK (outside Westbeth)

Playback, a group exhibition at Westbeth Gallery, links the interplay among biography, narrative,and experience across a disparate set of artistic practices developed by Rutgers University visual
art MFA graduates. First year MFA students Em Gallagher, Andrew Kennedy, Kabi Lama,Maura Torres, and Anton Varga have joined instructors Park McArthur and Jason Hirata inorganizing a presentation of their graduating peers’ work.

• June 28 – July 30
  VALERIE HALLIER – UNatural PRocesses- GROUP SHOW (Westbeth)

The group show questions what we call “nature” and “natural”. In many other civilizations, the word nature doesn’t exist to differentiate the non-human from the human. Through the work of 8 international artists, the show revisits our contemporary relationship with the non-human through each artist’s unique way of working with their material be it raw, weaved, painted, recycled, coded or virtual.

• August 2 – August 27
  THE WHITNEY – GROUP SHOW (outside Westbeth)

This recurring annual group show presents the Whitney museum’s staff selection of artworks.

• August 30 – September 24
  KEN WADE – 58 YEAR OF ART MAKING (Westbeth)

This retrospective presents 58 years of art making spanning 3 favored traditional mediums; drawing, painting and sculpture.

• October 4 – October 29
  JAMES GORTNER – DADS – GROUP SHOW (Westbeth)

This is a show about “Dads” who make art, working across all mediums from painting and sculpture to performance and
video. This show has included Dads of all kinds to umbrella the term as those who can identify with their own idea of what a dad can be. Though all the Dads in this show have been profoundly affected by their experience as Dad, their work may not directly show it.

• November 11 – December 16
  WESTBETH WINTER SHOW GROUP SHOW 2023 Westbeth)

This annual group show celebrates all Westbeth’s visual artists, presenting in one show 70 to 80 different practices through one artwork.

Note: Calendar dates generally indicate when an exhibitor takes over the Gallery, and includes installation, run of the show, and de-installation. Check the Westbeth Home Page publicity for the date of the opening reception and exact exhibition dates, whenever they are posted.

To inquire about using the gallery for q reading, performance or other event, contact westbethgallery@gmail.com.
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