Westbeth Hallway Gallery

October 1 – December 31, 2019
Open 24/7

“I make dress and textile art from old fabrics and found objects. I am inspired by discarded objects that I come across on a daily basis. I incorporate sewing, embroidery knitting and watercolor into my work.”

Ann Hamilton learned the crafts of sewing and knitting as a girl growing up around the West Coast of Ireland. After coming to New York City in her 20s, she worked in a variety of clothing-related jobs and honed her considerable skills. In the 1990s, Hamilton set up her own business in bridal gowns. Her dressmaking talents extend to her textile art, in which she is able to incorporate objects from nature and also pursue her interest in fashioning garments from discarded items. Hamilton has exhibited her textile art in Ireland, England, and New York City.

Read more about Ann Hamilton HERE

I Am Cuba is a 1964 film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov.

An international co-production between the Soviet Union and Cuba, it was not received well by either the Russian or Cuban public, and was almost completely forgotten until it was re-discovered by filmmakers Martin Scorcese and Francis Ford Coppola who after seeing its acrobatic tracking shots and idiosyncratic mise en scene prompted their 1990s campaign to restore the film.

The movie consists of four distinct short stories about the suffering of the Cuban people and their reactions, varying from passive amazement in the first, to a guerrilla march in the last. Between the stories, a female narrator (credited “The Voice of Cuba”) says such things as, “I am Cuba, the Cuba of the casinos, but also of the people.”

Westbeth Movie Night is a free public event sponsored by the Westbeth Artists Residents Council. It is a series of films curated by filmmaker Ethan Maas that are significant, brilliant, sometimes forgotten, but always memorable.

When: Sunday Sept 8, 2019 2-3:30PM
Where: Westbeth Community Room
TopicL Preparing for Flu Season and Updates on Vaccinations

West Village Wellness is a free public monthly event sponsored by Grove Drugs and Westbeth to provide information to the community on ways to sustain a healthy life.

Presented by Ilana Aminov RPH of Grove Drugs, your neighborhood pharmacy.
Hosted by: Michael Drew Embrey
Catering: by Michael Stewart of Tavern on Jane

Discover how to prepare for the upcoming flu season. Are flu shots worth waiting in line for? If I get the flu, do I still need a flu shot? Can I just eat healthy, stream movies and avoid people?

Ilana Aminov has the answers to all your questions.

Black fields of white lineal flowers. Mental flora had the artist’s brush singing “Paint it Black”. A yin/yang pattern of the Cosmos and the Spirit. Bearing a bouquet to blossom in the Dark.

Barbara Slitkin became a proud Westbeth resident in 2007, as a career artist exhibiting in NYC from 1980’s on, with many Solo exhibitions as Artist in Residence in New York Public Library. With two popular shows here at Westbeth, since 2009.

Now teaching a private group on the L.E.S.

Last summer was celebrated for a long art teaching career with the historical Educational Alliance on East Broadway.
Slitkin’s work is currently in private and museum collections worldwide.

Show Dates: October 5 – December 29, 2019

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 5 from 4PM – 7PM

Robert Bunkin
Figurative painter, art historian and curator, Bunkin is a native New Yorker. He studied at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, undergraduate degree from the CUNY BA/BS Program, MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Bunkin lived and studied in Florence, Italy between 1986-88. He returned to Italy in 2000 to perfect his fresco technique at the Tintori Laboratory for True Fresco in Vainella (near Prato) on a Parsons School of Design Faculty Leave Grant. He has also spent some time studying and teaching in Beijing.

Bunkin’s work has been seen in solo and group exhibitions locally, nationally, in Italy and China.
He has taught studio art and art history at Wagner College, Parsons School of Design, NYU Continuing Education, the New School, and Borough of Manhattan Community College, the Art Students League, Grand Central Atelier, LIC and Florence Academy, at MANA in Jersey City. From 2011-2017 he was Art Curator at the Staten Island Museum, overseeing its inaugural art exhibitions when it opened at Snug Harbor. He has also curated major exhibitions at the Newhouse Center and at other venues throughout the City.

Bunkin lived in Staten Island, for 25 years, moving to Westbeth in 2014. Since then he has been very active in the visual arts culture of Westbeth, having curated or worked on several exhibitions in the Gallery, most recently Parent Portraits in May-June 2019.

BREAKING GROUND: Twenty Years of the New York Chinese Scholars Garden

Robert Bunkin will be showing a portion of Under Construction, a fresco installation depicting the Chinese Artisans who built the New York Chinese Scholars Garden.

Show Dates: Oct 19 – December 29, 2019

Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art (Buildings C and G)
$5 Gallery Admission

See attached flier.

The 12 week workshop meets every Thursday from September 19 to December 12 from 11am – 2pm.

Space is limited, so sign up NOW.
Email: gaborworks@gmail.com
You must be 55 years old and up.