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David Greenspan
Superstitions
A Terrifying Comedy

The POOL Pop Up Theater
The New Ohio Theater

154 Christopher Street Suite 1E
New York, NY 10014

DATES:
Nov. 1 at 8pm;
Nov. 5 at 5pm;
Nov 7 at 2pm;
Nov. 8 at 8pm;
Nov. 11 at 8pm;
Nov. 13 at 2pm;
Nov. 14 at 8pm;
Nov. 17 at 8pm;
Nov. 19 at 5pm;
Nov. 20 at 8pm)

SUPERSTITIONS
By Emily Zemba
Directed by Jenna Worsham
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Grieg finds a penny on the ground. When he tries to offer it to a stranger sitting near him — it sparks an absurd and frightening conversation about “bad luck.” Superstitions is an 8-character unconventional comedy about navigating personal and national terrors. Who knew the ridiculous could be so terrifying?
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Featuring: Celeste Arias*, Latoya Edwards*, Nicholas Gorham, David Greenspan*, Iliana Guibert*, Rebecca Jimenez*, Ricardo Vázquez*, and Naren Weiss*. *Actors Equity

Check out thepoolplays.org for cast and design information! In addition, there you will find the most current information on COVID-19 restrictions. To attend a performance you must show proof of vaccination with ID verification for admittance into the theatre. Masks are required for all audience members. However, performers will not be masked.

TICKETS: The Pool is all about expanding access to the stage, both for artists and audiences! Pay-What-You-Choose tickets are all General Admission at $5, $25, or $50. On show days, in person, audiences can choose any price (availability permitting).

MORE INFO: https://ci.ovationtix.com/34708/production/1076696

DAVID GREENSPAN He is the recipient of six Obies, including an award in 2010 for Sustained Achievement.

Sonia Gechtoff The 60’s in New York A Series of Transitions

October 27 through November 19, 2021

David Richard Gallery, LLC
211 East 121 ST | New York, NY 10035
2nd floor
P: (212) 882-1705

www.davidrichardgallery.com

An exhibition that looks critically into this pivotal and transformative period following the artist’s move from San Francisco in 1958. Like the preceding decade, during the mid-1950s with Gectoff’s arrival in the Bay Area, the 60s were full of change and experimentation in New York. This presentation maps several such transitions, including: changes in Gechtoff’s painting medium and method of application; experimenting with collage and lithography; but most profound, the notable change of the imagery in her drawings and paintings.

The presentation will include paintings and drawings, the mainstay of Gechtoff’s repertoire from the 1950s and 60s. Both media share strong relationships to one another with bold marks, paint laden strokes on canvas, full bodied gestures with graphite on paper, and equal attention given to figure and ground that spans both decades. However, this presentation will focus on the technical, formal and aesthetic changes that occurred in the 1960s with respect to Gechtoff’s paintings and drawings and will also include the new media of collage and lithography from that period.

Regarding technique, Gechtoff moved away from the palette knife, which was her signature tool for marking the canvas and delivering thick impasto applications of paint in bold and determinative strokes. In large part, this was a result of her move from oil paint to the new acrylic medium that had become very popular in the 1960s. While she did continue to work in both oil and acrylic during that decade, her migration to brushes was distinctly noted in both media. The painting presented in this exhibition, Sea Door, 1966 is an oil painting, but the predominance of brush strokes is evident. By the 1970s, her migration to acrylic paint was complete and continued throughout the remainder of her career.

Erin Quinn Purcell Directs “Where I’ve Never Gone: Diane in Ten Frames”

Where I’ve Never Gone: Diane in Ten Frames
By Ellis Stump
Directed by Erin Quinn Purcell

FREE PERFORMANCE

Saturday Oct 23, 2021 at 7PM
Sunday. Oct 24, 2021 at 7PM

Westbeth Community Room
155 Bank St
NYC 10014

Seating is limited. Reservations strongly recommended. Reserve Now!
Email” WARCevents@gmail.com

Covid vaccination, photo ID, face covering. Maximum occupancy 35 persons.

50 years since Diane Arbus’s passing by suicide, we reopen and theatrically bring to life her iconic final project: “A Box of 10 Photographs.” These scenic snapshots preserve moments in Arbus’s lifetime and New York City history, while exploring current themes of mental health, identity, creative appropriation, and imagination. 

This play, by rising playwright Ellis Stump, was mentored at Columbia University by David Henry Hwang (M Butterfly) and is directed by Erin Quinn Purcell.

Erin Quinn Purcell has worked as an actor/director/writer in New York City for over 25 years. She serves as Performing Arts Chair on the Westbeth Artist Residents Council.

In addition to directing “Where I’ve Never Gone”, Erin is also currently working with Jay Reiss (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) on a new musical, Iceboy! (music and lyrics by Mark Hollmann) at the Pasadena Playhouse starring Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Adam Devine and Laura Bell Bundy. You can watch 4 numbers from the musical on their website https://www.playbill.com/article/watch-megan-mullally-and-nick-offerman-in-the-upcoming-musical-iceboy.

Anita Steckel
Politics of Desire and Oppression in Art

“My Town” (c. 1969-1974), silver gelatin print, 37 x 49 inches (all images courtesy the Estate of Anita Steckel, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, and Ortuzar Projects, New York)[/caption]

HYPOALLERGIC
Art Review
Oct 13, 2021

Anita Steckel
Hannah Hoffman Gallery
Los Angeles, California

By Natalie Haddad

Read the complete review HERE

LOS ANGELES — In 1973 Anita Steckel wrote, “If the erect penis is not ‘wholesome’ enough to go into museums — it should not be considered ‘wholesome’ enough to go into women. And if the erect penis is ‘wholesome’ enough to go into women, then it is more than ‘wholesome’ enough to go into the greatest art museums.”

The statement appeared in the press release for Fight Censorship, a group the artist formed that year to oppose institutional censorship of sexually themed art by women; members included Judith Bernstein, Louise Bourgeois, Joan Semmel, and Hannah Wilke.

“N.Y. Canvas Series #2” (c. 1971), screenprint and oil on canvas, 64 x 99 inches

Anita Steckel at Hannah Hoffman, organized with Steckel’s estate, features plenty of penises, and plenty of artworks that ought to be in museums. The exhibition, which spans the late 1960s to the early ’80s, includes selections from four series that integrate collage, drawing and painting, and silkscreened or photocopied images.

With her Giant Women on New York photomontage series (1969–74), Steckel inserts her own image in New York City’s skyline. In “My Town,” a sultry Steckel lies nude across the city, its towers passing through her transparent body. “Pierced” is more blunt in its depiction of the phallic skyscraper’s abuse of the female body: the artist hangs limp above the Chrysler Building, impaled at the waist by its sharp crown.

Read the complete review HERE

Westbeth FLEA MARKET Bargains Galore, Affordable Art and Nov 13 only, $5 Bag Sale

Bargains Galore

We receive donations from the artists at Westbeth and our community. The sale includes housewares, electronics, cameras, furniture, books, albums, men’s and women’s clothing, collectibles, fine fabrics and linens, sports, and more at low, low prices!

Our Affordable Art Department

specializes in original artwork including paintings, sculpture, fine art prints, and drawings from abstract to representational.

Covid 19

Masks, Vaccination Card and Proof of ID required for entry. Maximum occupancy 35 persons.

November 13, 2021 ONLY 11am – 2pm

NEW! Westbeth Tee Shirts

available in all sizes will be sold at Flea Market $20 each. Money raised will go towards Westbeth projects and programs.

Housewares

Books

Men’s and Women’s Clothing

Affordable Art

Collectibles

Collectibles

OPENING
Tuesday Election Day November 2, 2021 10am – 7pm

WEEKEND FLEA MARKET
Friday Nov 5 11am – 5pm
Saturday Nov 6, 11am – 5pm
Sunday Nov 7, 11am – 5pm

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON PROJECTS FUNDED BY FLEA MARKET Westbeth Flea Market

CONTACT: westbethfleamarket@gmail.com

SIGN OF THE TIMES
ART EXHIBIT

Opening Reception
Thurs, October 14, 6-9pm S

Show dates Oct 14 – Nov 13, 2021
Hours: Wed-Sun 1-6pm

Westbeth Home of the Arts is back with a bang after a long hiatus due to Covid and what better way to do this? by bringing together 8 amazing and uniquely different artists who’s take on the phrase:

Sign Of The Times
“Something judged to exemplify or indicate the nature or quality of a particular period”

Each artist has their own point of view whether its personal, political or time specific. The show features paintings, photography, a combination of both, sculpture, free hand paper cutting, dioramas and installation. These works will provoke us to question what is going on in the world right now and what kind of world are we leaving to future generations.

Artists

Illtyd Barrett, Christina Duarte, Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen, Stephen Hall, Steve Joester, Martin Mahoney, Rob Plater, Robert Ross

Illtyd Barrett
Barrett will explore the phenomena of the rise of populism and consumerism which has led to a climate of anti intellectualism and religious fundamentalism. Using hand made pigments and substrates, Barrett proposes to exhibit both sculpture and 2D elements reflecting the above concerns.

Christina Duarte
Now is the time to recognize that society requires women to behave in a particular way that often hides their true selves. My pieces are a diptych dialogue about women showing two sides of their personalities as a narration of rising against prejudice, sexism and the stigma of personal struggle.

Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen
Cut Work, is a free hand paper cutting process that charts the contours of our ever- changing emotional experience through the movement of form, line, color, and light and shadow. Evolving over the course of ten years, Cut Work traveled through Gregory- Gruen’s diverse vocabulary of mediums from paper and metal, to leather and 12-gauge gunshot blasts to understand the play between visceral emotional responses and meditative rest.

Stephen Hall
I continue to make paintings that draw attention to our planet in crisis.
Whether it is plastic pollution or the fossil fuel industry and climate change, it is most certainly greed at the heart of it. I draw attention to these things by rendering scenes that show the beauty of our natural world juxtaposed with symbols of the aforementioned.

Steve Joester
Capturing the cultural explosion propelled by Rock n Roll from the Rolling Stones to the Sex Pistols. Loud, brash, colorful and fueled by youth rebellion!

Martin Mahoney
Always had a keen interest in photography which has intensified recently due to the alarming acceleration in the gentrification of his beloved East Village, attempting to capture what’s left of the old neighborhood and its denizens, which are being replaced by glass boxes, banks and bubble tea joints.…

Rob Plater
The re-appropriation of styles and traditions within Robert’s work serves to bridge the gap between his favorite genres within the extensive history of image making.

Robert Ross
STOP, DANGER, HAZARDOUS MATERIAL, KEEP TO THE RIGHT, TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED, CAUTION, DEAD END AHEAD

Contact: Curator Samantha Hall (646) 309 7109
samanthahall666@gmail.com

Westbeth Gallery: 57 Bethune Street, New York, NY 10014

FREE Flu Shots
Last chance at Westbeth

Westbeth Community Room
Enter through courtyard
155 Bank Street
b/w Washington and West Its
New York, NY

Wednesday Oct 13, 2021
1PM – 3:30PM

FREE

Please Note:
The waiting room will be outside the Community Room. Only person at a time will be allowed to enter.
Masks are mandatory
Bring a pen
Bring your glasses

Vaccine and staffing donated by Lenox Hill Greenwich Village, Northwell Health
Sponsored by Westbeth Artists Residents Council