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FROM INSIDE THE WHITNEY
STAFF ART SHOW 2017

Graphic by Justin Romeo

Graphic by Justin Romeo

From its origins in Greenwich Village in 1914 to its relocation to the Meatpacking District in 2015, the Whitney Museum of American Art has remained devoted to living artists at critical moments in their careers. Many of the Museum’s staff members, who provide crucial support to the development, implementation, and management of exhibitions, programs, and publications, are artists themselves. For the first time, the Whitney’s Staff Art Show will be held in a public space, offering staff an opportunity to share their work with a broad public and deepen connections with the Museum’s new surrounding community. This exhibition will display over 50 works in a wide range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, watercolor, collage, and video, reflecting the diversity of artistic practice among the Whitney’s talented staff.

Curators: Michelle Donnelly and Melinda Lang

Participating Artists

Karly Anderson
David J Armacost
James Bartolacci
Mishele Begun
Caitlin Bermingham
Richard Bloes
Ali Bono
Chris Burton
Natalee Cayton
Jaqueline Cedar
Kiran Chandra
Ramon Cintron
Heather Cox
Sarah Dinkelacker
John Donovan
Kasim Earl
Reid Farrington
Kyle Freeman
Jesse Gelaznik
Claudia Gerbracht
Manuela Gonzalez
Sophie Grant
Dina Helal
Leslie Hodge
Chris Ketchie
Franky Kong
Tom Kotik
Chris Lesnewski
Rob Lomblad
Doug Madill
Pearl Malt
Jasa McKenzie
Nicole Melanson
Conor Messinger
David Miller
Maureen Millmore
Lorryn Moore
Victor Moscoso
Anthony Naimoli
William Norton
Rose O’Neill-Suspitsyna
Luis Padilla
Laurie Peruyero
Jason Phillips
Eliza Proctor
Greg Reynolds
Kristin Roeder
Justin Romeo
Joshua Rosenblatt
Isaiah Russell
Jay Sanders
Dyeemah Simmons
Mark Steigelman
Eric Vermilion
Butcher Walsh
Jenyu Wang
Nathaniel Whitfield
George Wisegarver

OPEN HOUSE NEW YORK comes to Westbeth Artist Housing

photo: Roger Braimon

photo: Roger Braimon

A new site to this year’s #OHNYwknd, Westbeth Artist Housing was conceived in the 1960s in response to the lack of affordable housing and workspace for artists in New York.
Located in the former Bell Laboratories–where the first talking movie and the first TV broadcast were demonstrated–the 13-building complex was among the first examples of an adaptive reuse of an industrial building and one of architect Richard Meier’s first projects.

Westbeth is now the largest artist community in the country. #DailyReveal #newyorkisopen

TOUR. The FREE 45 minute tour begins at Westbeth, 155 Bank St in the courtyard. Tour are at noon, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5pm .

Street Easy names Westbeth is one of the 10 best of list places to visit in OPEN HOUSE NY http://streeteasy.com/blog/the-best-open-house-new-york-sites-2016/#

Penny Jones and Company Early Childhood Puppet Theater performs on June 27 at Pier 62 at 6:30pm, Free

PENNY JONES HRP-Summer of Fun RIVERKIDS-09The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

WHEN: MONDAY, JUNE 27th 6:30PM

WHO: PENNY JONES & CO. PUPPETS Early Childhood Puppet Theatre has been a mainstay of children’s theater in New York since the 1970’s. The company specializes in informal puppet shows for children aged three to eight, and puppet ballets with live music for audiences of adults, children or both.

HUDSON RIVER PARK’S HUDSON RIVER KIDS

WHERE: PIER 62 in Chelsea (cross at 22nd Street)

Rain location PIER 40 lobby
BUS AND SUBWAY: M20, M22, M23, A, C, E,

INFO: www.pennypuppets.org 212 924-0525
www.hudsonriverpark.org/events/series/hudson-riverkids

PENNY JONES 2014-15 Sorcerer 4x4 image loDESCRIPTION:
THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE with The Fisherman and the Genie
A puppet ballet set to The Sorcerer’s Apprentice score by Dukas, about a boy who starts something he cannot stop when he tries magic instead of muscle – as originally instructed. When the water rises he is overwhelmed with oysters, sword fish, jelly fish, shark, sea horse, octopus and giant whale, all swimming exuberantly until the Sorcerer arrives to set things right.
with “THE FISHERMAN AND THE GENIE,” (with music by Françaix), tells the story of a fisherman and his wife who find they miss their frugal, simple life after the genie grants their wishes for wealth and power.

PENNY JONES fisherman and genie lo“Two sweet little stories using hand puppets, rod puppets, music and imaginative props ” – New York Parent

“Inventive, charming and warm…” – Westchester Weekend

TICKETS: FREE

AGE RANGE: best for 3 to 8 ( but no minimum or maximum)

The Portrait Project:
Artists portraying Artists

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The Portrait Project: Artists Portraying Artists
A group exhibition of 17 painters and sculptors. Each artist will include in their exhibited body of work, at least one portrait of another artist in the show.

Exhibition Dates:
May 6 – May 20, 2017

Opening Reception:
Saturday May 6, 5 – 8 PM

Gallery Hours:
Wednesdays – Sundays,
1PM – 6PM

Westbeth Gallery presents the Portrait Project, an association of artists using direct observation, who exchange modeling time with one another. The modeling exchange provides a creative stimulus and exposes each artist to divergent points of view about portraiture and different working practices, avoiding many compromises associated with commissions. The show will highlight a body of work from each of the members. At least one of the pieces from each artist will be a portrait of a fellow Portrait Project member. Media include painting, drawing and sculpture.

Participating artists:
Alix Bailey, Robert Bunkin, Susanna Coffey, ColleenFranca, Leonid Gervits, Valerie Gillett, Howard Gladstone, Yuka Imata, Karen Kaapcke, Eric March,Frances Middendorf,J. William Middendorf, Sharon Moreau,Dena Schutzer, Orly Shiv,Donna Skebo, and Clarissa Payne Uvegi.

Special Evvents:
Drawing Room: An on-going feature of the exhibition will be the Drawing Room, which will display member’s drawings, as well as provide an opportunity for visitors to draw themselves or another visitor, in a space furnished with pencil and paper, chairs and a mirror. Visitor drawings can be displayed in the room until the conclusion of the exhibition, and retrieved on the closing day (May 20 no later than 6PM).

Panel discussion: “Artists Portraying Artists” on Saturday, May 13, 4 – 5:30 PM
Panel includes David Cohen, Mel Leipzig, Gail Levin, and Jennifer Samet.

“Roundtable” conversation on Saturday, May 20 (closing day), 3 – 5 PM. Attendees are invited to participate in an open discussion about issues in contemporary portraiture with Portrait Project members.

Westbeth Gallery
55 Bethune Street, Atrium
New York, NY 10014
westbethgallery@gmail.com
Contact: Howard Gladstone, 646-391-4821

Ken Wade
Songs and Stories

KEN WADE PERFORMANCE

Thurs May 18 at 7PM
Westbeth Community Room

Songs and stories of a young man making his way cross country in 1963, a night in a Texas jail for singing a song, finally ending up in Austraila where he spends a year painting in the Tasmanian bush.
Genius is part two of
a trilogy. Part three is coming soon.

Ken Wade has been singing songs and telling stories for many years.

Featured on Austrailian national televesion and WBAI radio, he has performed in London, LA, and Belfast.

In New York City, he sang songs and told stories at Dixon Place, EAT-NWS Festival, NYC Farmer’s Markers (& Upstate), Make Music NYC, the (old) Brecht Forum, Westbeth Music Festival, and the New York Public LIbrary.

In 2014, he performed a two-act one-man show at the spectacular Barns Performance Space in N. Virgina.

Ken is an active story teller at The Moth as well as Word, and other story telling venues in New York City, and has been a regularly invited performer at The Stage Left Theater, NYC.

Marion Lane is 2016 recipient of
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

Marion Lane Pollock Krasner

Marion Lane exhibitions..teaching
marionlanestudio.com
mjlaneart@aol.com born Brooklyn, N.Y.
Education
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. M.F.A. 1978
William Paterson University, Wayne, N.J. BS 1975
Art Students League, N.Y., Brooklyn Museum Art School, N.Y. 1968-69
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1946-49
Awards
2016 Pollack/Krasner/Grant Award
2008 Rocky Neck, Gloucester,Mass. Residence Fellowship
Elizabeth Sackler Center, Brooklyn Museum,Feminist Art Base
2007 The Drawing Center, NYC,NY, Artist File
2004 Virginia Center for the Cultural Arts, VA. Residence Fellowship
2002 Julia and David White Foundation, Collones, Costa Rica, Residence Fellowship
2001 Fundacion Valparaiso, Mohaca, Spain, Residence Fellowship
1999 Richard Florsheim Art Fund Grant for exhibition Catalog
1988 New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Fellowship Grant
1983 Edward Albee Foundation, N.Y. Residence Fellowship
1983 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Grant
1965 Jersey City Museum, Painters and Sculptors Society
1964 Monmouth College, West Long Branch, N.J., Annual Festival
1964 Montclair Museum, N.J., New Jersey Artists
1963 Atlantic City Annual, N.J. First Prize
1960 Montclair Museum, N.J. New Jersey Artists
1958 Brooklyn Museum, N.Y., Alumni Exhibition, Grumbacher Award
1953 Art Students League, NYC, NY, Scholarship Award

One Person and group exhibits
2007 Pleiades Gallery, NYC, NY, Draped Drawings and paintings
2006 Pleiades Gallery, NYC, NY
2000 Retrospective Exhibit, “Changing Perspectives” Westbeth Gallery, NYC, NY (catalog)
1996 Fourteen Sculptors Gallery, N.Y.C, NY
1999 William Carlos Williams Center for the Arts, Rutherford, NJ
1986 Fairlawn Library, Fairlawn, N.J.
1982 Edward Williams College, Fairleigh Dickenson University, Hackensack, NJ
Pleiades Gallery, N.Y., Works in Aluminum
1975 Rockland Center for the Arts, Nyack, N.Y.
1971 Bloomfield College, Bloomfeild, N.J., Sheet Metal Works
1970 Bergen County Museum, Paramus, NJ, Retrospective
Group Exhibits
2014 Carter Burdan Gallery, NYC, NY
2013 Westbeth Gallery, Three Artists With Different Views,
2013 Carter Burdan Gallery, NYC, NY
2013 Curate NYC, NY City Wide Juried Exhibition, Staten Island, NYC
2013 Governors Island Art Fair, 14 Sculptors, NYC, NY
2012 Wide Open 3, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Curated by Carlotta Kotek
2005 Pleiades Gallery, New Members Exhibit, New York City, NY
2002 Valjevo Serbia, International Art Studio, Art Without Limits, (catalog)
2000 Westbeth Gallery, New York City, NY
1999 Kergma Gallery, Ridgewood, N.J. Featured Artist and group exhibits
1996 Broome St. Gallery, NYC, NY
La Mama La Galleria, NYC, NY
Fourteen Sculptors Gallery, NYC, NY
1995 Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, New Jersey Artists
Nabisco Corporate Headquarters, East Hanover, N.J.
1994 William Paterson University, Ben Shahn Gallery, Paterson, NJ

1992 William Paterson University, Ben Shahn Gallery, NJ
1990/1999 Kergma Gallery, Ridgewood,NJ Featured Artist andGroup exhibits
1986 NYU Graduate School, Womans Caucus for Art,” Shapeshifters” NYC, NY
Pavillion Gallery, Memorial Hospital,Mt. St. Holly, NJ
Muhlenberg College, Pa.
1985 Newark Museum, New Jersey Artists Newark, NJ
Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ Womans Caucus, NJ
Glassboro State College,NJ, Womans Caucus, NJ
Jersey City State College, NJ, Womans Caucus for Art, NJ
1984 City Without Walls, Newark, NJ, Innovative Artists exhibit
1983 Hunterdon Arts Center, NJ, NJ Council on the Arts Fellowship exhibition
1982 Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ, Mable Smith Library
Federal Plaza, NYC, NY, Womens Caucus for Art Exhibition
1980 Rutgers University,Paul Robeson Gallery, NJ, Womans Caucus, NJ
1976 Kraushaar Gallery, NYC, NY, New Talent Festival
1973 National Academy Gallery, NYC, NY, National Association of Women Artists (catalog)
Morristown Museum of Arts and Sciences, N.J.
1971 Bergen County Museum, Paramus,N.J. Retrospective
1970 New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, New Jersey Artists (catalog)
1969 Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC, NY New Jersey Artists (catalog)
1968 New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, New Jersey Artists (catalog)
1965 Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, Conn. New England Annual (catalog)
Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA., “The Six”
Sterns, New York, “All American” invitational group
New York Worlds Fair, NYC, NY New Jersey Pavillion, invitational group
Jersey City Museum, New Jersey Painters and Sculptors Society Annual National (catalog)
1964 Monmouth College, West Long Branch, NJ, Annual Fine Arts Exhibit
Newark Museum, NJ, New Jersey State Triennial (catalog)
Roko Gallery, NYC Invitational Group
Art Center of Northern New Jersey, Englewood, NJ Annual
Montclair Museum, N.J. State Annual Exhibit
National Academy Gallery, NYC, Audubon Artists Annual (catalog)
1963 Montclair Museum, NJ, New Jersey State Annual
National Academy Gallery, NYC, Audubon Artists (catalog)
Riverside Museum, NYC, Modern Artists Guild exhibition
1962 Montclair Museum, New Jersey State Annual (catalog)
Monmouth College, West Long Branch, NJ (curated by Elaine De Kooning)
1961 Newark Museum,New Jersey, New Jersey State Annual (catalog)
Montclair Museum, New Jersey State Annual (catalog)
1960 Montclair Museum, New Jersey State Annual) (catalog)
1958 Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Museum Art School Alumni fourth Annual
1957 Morris Gallery, NYC

TEACHING
BERGEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Paramus, N.J. 1986-98 ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR in Fine Art
Manhattan Psychiatric Center, NYC, NY, 1986-98, Art Therapy

Culture Push:
Artifacts and After Effects

Artifacts & After Effects

Culture Push Culture Push presents interactive and engaging work from 13 artists from the Fellowship for Utopian Practice. Through the Fellowship, Culture Push supports artists and professionals as they develop ambitious and civically engaged work.

Participating Artists: Nancy Nowacek, Alicia Grullon, Chloë Bass, Jen Kennedy & Liz Linden, Go! Push Pops (Katie Cercone & Elisa Garcia de la Huerta), Barrie Cline, Olaronke Akinmowo, aricoco, Sarah Dahnke, Lise Brenner, Victoya Venise, James Andrews, and Aiesha Turman.

Opening Reception 6pm – 8pm.
At 7pm there will be a performance from members of Dances for Solidarity, the project of current Culture Push Fellow, Sarah Dahnke.

Performers will integrate choreography that has been received from incarcerated pen pals with the original Dance for Solidarity — a series of movements sent to individuals in solitary confinement with an invitation to dance and create a sense of solidarity with others both incarcerated and not who may be doing the dance at the same time.