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Judith Moss performs in Border Crossers – A Festival of Art to Celebrate Immigrant Lives on March 14 at Goddard Riverside NYC

When: March 14, 2020 at 7:30PM

Where: Goddard Riverside
The Bernie Wohl Center
647 Columbus Ave, NYC

Westbeth Resident JUDITH MOSS dances her solo “Undocumented/Border Crossings”, which honors the legacy of her parents who were born in Berlin and fled Nazi-occupied Europe during WW ll.

Border Crossers – A Festival of Art to Celebrate Immigrant Lives: In an evening of theatre, dance, film and discussion. “Crossing borders illegally, living in the shadows, undocumented… dangerous times now and then.” Saturday, March 14th @ 7:30pm.The Bernie Wohl Center, Goddard Riverside, 647 Columbus Avenue at 92nd Street.

Tickets:
General Admission $20
Students and Seniors $15
Eventbrite

More info: Goddard.org/WHAM

Karin Batten ‘s new paintings at June Kelly Gallery NYC opening March 6th

Show Dates: March 6 – April 14, 2020

Reception: Friday March 6 from 6pm – 8pm

Where: June Kelly Gallery
166 Mercer St NYC
212 266 1660

“My new series of work is inspired by the evocative and distinct places I find while traveling. In 2018, I went to Puerto Rico and Costa Rica to find inspiration for my new works and I help with the relief effort. While there, I visited Playa Negra, a black sand beach, formed from an earlier volcano. Inspired by the magma, I brought some back and integrated its rich mysterious color and texture into this body of work. Seeing the uniquely colored feather patterns of Costa Rican birds first hand while surrounded by fauna and butterflies left me with a feeling for intense color that I work to capture in my paintings. These authentic discoveries and moments help enrich each work with its own story and its own unique world.”

– Karin Batten

Valerie Ghent sings original soul/blues songs from her recent albums at the Frame Brasserie in Paris, Feb 27, 2020


Valerie Ghent
LIVE IN PARIS
New York recording artist Valerie Ghent kicks off 2020 with a concert in Paris! In a beautiful venue literally right next to the Eiffel Tower, in the same Paris arrondisement where her mother grew up as a child, Valerie will perform original soul/blues songs from her recent albums Velours, The French Sessions and Day to Day Dream, with Pierre Sibille, Jerome Buigues, Danielle Mendez, plus special guest Tri Nguyen on dan tranh (Vietnamese zither) for intimate ballads in duo from their upcoming new album.

Powerhouse recording artist VALERIE GHENT wows audiences with her emotive, evocative voice, piano chops to match, and “soul-stirring, uplifting songs full of vitality and joy.” A native New Yorker with a bluesy, funky piano style and a stunning 3 1/2 octave range, it’s no surprise she has toured with music legends Ashford & Simpson and Debbie Harry (Blondie) and performed/worked with artists as diverse as Dr. Maya Angelou, Nina Simone, Sir Cliff Richard, Roberta Flack, Iggy Pop & Billy Preston. Working closely with R&B royalty Ashford & Simpson for over two decades, Valerie learned from the best of the best. An outstanding live performer, Valerie has released 5 solo albums and had a smash #1 hit song with Love Enough for a Lifetime. Soultracks awarded her album Velours one of the Top 50 Albums of 2016. Valerie also regularly tours and records in France where her 2018 single, Feelin Alright, hit #1 on Jazz Radio France. valerieghent.com

Pierre Sibille – keyboards, harmonica, vocals
Jerome Buigues – guitar, vocals
Danielle Mendez – drums
& special guest Tri Nguyen – dan tranh

Frame Brasserie
28 Rue Jean Rey, 75015 Paris, France
Reservations:

01 44 38 57 77 / resa@framebrasserie.fr

Valerie Ghent
valerieghent.com

Feel the Music!
feelthemusic.org

New York Internal Arts
internalartsinternational.com

Juanita McNeely retrospective at the James Fuentes Gallery Jan 22 – Mar 1, 2020. A New York Times must-see show.

Triskaidekaptych, 1986, Installation view, James Fuentes, 2020

Westbeth artist, Juanita McNeely is an American feminist artist known for her bold works that illustrate the nude female experience in her figurative paintings, prints, paper cut-outs and ceramic pieces.

Gallery Info: James Fuentes Gallery NYC

NY Times article: What to See Right Now in New York (Jan 29, 2020)

Joan Hall
Reading and Book signing

Date: February 4, 2020 at 7PM

At: Westbeth Community Room

Presented by the Westbeth Literary Arts Committee, Joan Hall, poet and collagist, will read from her new book of poems, “Journey to Somewhere”.

Guest readers include Roger Braimon, Pique Kelly-Buford, Joel Rooks, and Reef Hall.

Native New Yorker Joan Hall is a pioneer in the field of collage and assemblage illustration. Known for her collages and assemblages, she has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City.
Along with careers as a mime, teacher, artist, and lecturer, Joan has also been writing poetry since she was a child.
She is a winner of the 2018 Miriam Chaiken Foundation Award for her poetry. “Journey to Somewhere” is a collection of those winning poems.

Westbeth Community Room
155 Bank St
NY NY
between West and Washington Its
enter through courtyard

The Textile Study Group of NY:
The Gold Standard of
Textile and Fiber Art

Ingenuity writ large; technique knit large

Show Dates: Feb 5 – Feb 23, 2020

Special Closing Event

The Gold Standard: Juror and Artist Talk
Sunday February 23rd from 1pm to 5:45 pm

Between 40-45 artists will be at the gallery on Sunday 23rd to talk about their work.

1:00pm to 3:00pm artists-with name tags on will circulate or be by their work to discuss it with interested viewers.

3:00pm to 3:30pm Lauren Whitley, the juror will speak in the main gallery.

3:30pm to 5:45 pm artists will be by their own art work to speak about it to interested folks and to answer any questions.

6:00pm the show closes

Questions please contact: Joan.mann.diamond@gmail.com

Westbeth Gallery and The Textile Study Group of New York are pleased to announce an exciting new show that explores the visual, dimensional and artistic language of fiber and textile.

“At a time when our collective attention is dangerously adrift, trapped in the freefall of our social-media feeds and snared in a pit of fake facts, handwork provides a firm anchor. It cannot be spun. It gives us something to believe in.”
Glenn Adamson, Senior Scholar,
Yale Center for British Art

How do 80 artists, working primarily in fiber, hone their conception of beauty and truth while integrating a mixture of materials ( both natural and synthetic ) with technique? The amazing feature of this show is how the work of individual artists working within the same medium can be totally different… even provocative.

The debate about fiber art as fine art is, thankfully, moot. Contemporary fiber art prioritizes aesthetic value over utility. Manual labor, choice of materials, and process are prized elements of a work’s significance. Dialectical thinking guides the work of these multi-layered artists in a way demonstrating that ingenuity triumphs over all.

For example, who knew that cable ties could be employed in such a seductive way? Who knew that leather and suede cut with an xacto knife could express so much about urban life… while weaving in social commentary? Who knew that electronic sensors cold be seamlessly integrated into an alluring form? We could go on and on.

Handwork cannot be described. It must be seen. “It gives us something to believe in.”

The Textile Study Group of New York (TSGNY) in its 42nd anniversary this year, is dedicated to the study and appreciation of fiber arts in all forms, from historic cloth to contemporary installation, from textile design to tensile architecture.

Show Juror: Lauren Whitley, senior curator in the David and Roberta Logie Department of Textile and Fashion Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, helps oversee a global collection of 55,000 textiles, costumes, and accessories. She has curated more than 14 exhibitions including #techstyle and Hippie Chic. A Ph.D. candidate, she is focusing her research on textiles at the 1933 New York World’s Fair.

PARTICIPANTS

Liz Alpert Fay, Ludmila Aristova, Meredith Armstrong, Kate Barber, Polly Barto, Katherine Bennett,Stacy Bogdonoff, Allegra Brelsford, Eva Camacho, Sayzie Carr, Leonie Castelino, Anne-Claude Cotty, Don DonCee Coulter, Virginia Davis,Rachael Dorr, Chiaki Dosho, Emily Dvorin, Patricia Frik, Jayne Gaskins, Irene Gennaro,Sandra Golbert, Joyce Goodman, Carolyn Halliday, Liz Hamilton Quay, Marilyn Henrion, Susan Hensel, Pat Hickman, Eileen Hoffman, Leslie Horan Simon, Lauren Horowitz, Mary Jaeger, Tracy Jamar,Ruth Jeyaveeran, Setsuko Jimbo, Mo Kelman,Julia Kiechel, Judy Kirpich, Nancy Koenigsberg, Dianne Koppisch Hricko, Lisa Lackey, Fannie Lee, Janet Levine, Elaine Longtemps, Mary Lor,Patricia Malarcher, Saberah Malik, Ruth Marchese,mDorothy McGuinness,Susan Moss, Yasuko Okumura, Sui Park, Helen Perry,Bonnie Peterson, Tanya Prather,mEllen Ramsey, Szilvia Revesz, Patricia Rogers,Kari Roslund, CARO, Lois Russell, Ellen Schiffman, Robin Schwalb, Chizuko Sekiguch, Julia Shepley, Adrienne Sloane,Elizabeth Starcevic, Hillary Steel,mAmy Supton, Kim Svoboda,Naomi Tarantal,Sumiko Tasaka, Charlotte Thorp, K. Velis Turan,Betty Vera, Ann Vollum, Shari Werner, Saaraliisa Ylitalo, Ada Yonenaka, Pamela Zave, Betti Zucker.

Show Dates: Feb 5 – Feb 23, 2020
Opening Reception: Wednesday Feb 5 from 6PM – 9PM

At: Westbeth Gallery
55 Bethune St
between Washington and West Sts.

More info on The Textile Study Group of New York HERE

For information on the show:
Contact
Harriet Cherry Cheney hscheney@optonline.net
C:914-330-3335/T: 914-591-0198

After February 10,
Contact Ann Vollum annvollum@verizon.net
862-205-9722