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Ken Wade
Songs and Stories

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

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.

In this House of Sky

In This House of Sky

A 12-person exhibition
featuring contemporary
artwork
reflecting on
our celestial sphere

Show Dates:
May 25 – June 18, 2017

Opening Reception
Thursday May 25, from 6PM – 8PM

Gallery Hours:
Wed – Sunday 1PM – 6PM

Westbeth Gallery presents the artwork of 12 contemporary artists with a wide range of media and styles that explore the intangible space/time continuum conjured by the sky.

Participating Artists:
Yan Cynthia Chen, Susan Spencer Crowe, Reet Das, Karen Fitzgerald, Julie Gross, Ellen Grossman, Susan Knight, Paula Overbay, Jim Pignetti, Florina Sbircea, Mary Vengrofski, and Alice Zinnes.

The work of Ellen Grossman, Paula Overbay, and Karen Fitzgerald suggests gently modulating fabrics of space, each with distinctive energy signatures unspooling across fields.

Susan Knight, Susan Spencer Crowe, Mary Vengrofski and Yan Cynthia Chen work along a 3-d abstract continuum, each using materials in unexpected combinations such as clay with paper, water and string, wax with cardbaord. Their work strikes a balance between the world of dreams and imaginative presence.

Though in singular, distinctive ways, the work of Reet Das, Julie Gross, Jim Pignetti, Florina Sbircea and Alice Zinnes all use rhythmic color and form to suggest the pushing and pulling present in space and time, and the roiling dance of sky particles.

The exhibition has been curated by Karen Fitzgerald. A curatorial statement is available on request.

The exhibition opens on May 25, and runs through June 18th, 2017. Regular gallery hours are from Wednesday through Sunday, from 1pm – 6pm. The gallery is free and open to the public.

Special Event
A panel discussion will convene on Saturday, June 3, from 6-8:30pm, exploring the role of imagination in contemporary art.
For inquiries and additional information, please contact Karen Fitzgerald
646.369.7184 or Karen@FitzgeraldArt.com

Westbeth Gallery
55 Bethune Street
New York, NY 10014

Unpacking the 21st Century
Artists Engaging the World

PATRICIA DAHLMAN Freedom

Five mid-career artists: Aliza Augustine, Aileen Bassis, Patricia Cazorla, Patricia Dahlman, Nancy Saleme address current social and political issues in a variety of forms and media, including photography, sculpture and printmaking. Curated by Aileen Bassis. Continue reading →

Joan Hall
Collage and Assemblage
Past and Present

Collage & Assemblage, Past & Present

Collage has rapidly gained popularity as an art form in the United States. I believe that there are sociological reasons for this. Everyone is in a hurry and the medium of collage conveys a feeling of spontaneity. With the advent of the computer and the Internet, our world had become fragmented. This is reflected in the bits and pieces that make up a collage and assemblage. Based on this, I have compiled a lecture/slide show on collage and assemblage from 12th century Japan to contemporary digital photo illustration
Presentationn includes works by Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Cornell, Rauschenberg, and many other artists. You will see how artists recycled everyday materials into artwork, using spare tires, shredded money, and even ones own blood! The use of collage in illustration has become a familiar sight. You will learn how collage artists cope with some hilarious, yet frustrating experiences in the publishing workplace. This program is both entertaining and educational.
Part 2 consists of my own artwork.
Native New Yorker Joan Hall’s artwork has appeared on covers of Time Magazine, The New York Times and numerous other publications. Her collages and assemblages have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City. She was commissioned by the American Cultural Center of the US State Department to lecture, exhibit, and conduct workshops in France, India, Brazil, and Mexico.

Poetry Reading
Carol Szamatowicz
Ann Stephenson
Kostas Anagnopoulos

Three Writers Reading Their Poetry
A FREE Event
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WESTSIDE EXPOSURE
Whitney Staff Art Show
Summer 2017

Graphic by Justin Romeo

Westside Exposure: Whitney Staff Art Show 2017

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 second time in its history, the Whitney’s Staff Art Show will be held in a public space, offering staff an opportunity to share their work with a broad audience and deepen connections with the Westside community. This exhibition will include over 70 works in a wide range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, printmaking, collage, and video, reflecting the diversity of artistic practice among the Whitney’s talented staff.

Opening Reception Video
Video credit:
Website: http://nycgalleryopenings.com