The Westbeth Flea Market returns as the WESTBETH BOOK SALE.

The Flea Market lost its space to Hurricane Sandy, but they haven’t lost their spirit. BOOKS GALORE! Continue reading →

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation was established in 1985 for the sole purpose of providing financial assistance to individual visual artists of established ability through the generosity of the late Lee Krasner. one of the leading abstract expressionist painters, and the widow of Jackson Pollock.

For more info:
Pollock-Krasner Foundation

For more info on the artists:

www.susanlberger.com
www.christinamaile.com
www.jayneholsinger.com
www.petercolquhoun.com

We are pleased to announce the arrival of additional funds for NYFA’s Emergency Relief Fund through the generous support of the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City and the Booth Ferris Foundation.

Eligible artists can be working in any discipline, but must reside in one of the five boroughs of New York City and meet a maximum income threshold.

If you are an artist who is still suffering the impact of Hurricane Sandy, you can find complete guidelines and answers to Frequently Asked Questions at relieffund.nyfa.org. Funds are limited, so we urge artists to apply by September 15th for priority review.

Please email if you have any questions or concerns

Featuring the work of NYFA Fellows, Fiscally Sponsored, and Boot Camp artists. Exhibit co-sponsored by WIX.
OPENING Friday August 23 at 6pm-9pm
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MADE IN JAPAN

Painting exhibition in the Westbeth Sculpture Annex and Gallery
ART UNITES THE WORLD
JUNE 14th – JULY 28th
Opening Saturday June 22 6-8pm

Mixed media paintings created by Japanese artists with disabilities from the Japanese school art-HRM inc are on exhibition in the Westbeth Artists Sculpture Gallery and Annex.

Guest Curator and producer of this exhibition: Hugues R. Mathieu, a well known artist in Japan, graduated from The Fashion Institute of Technology and received his MFA in painting from The New York Academy of Art in Manhattan.

Born in Brooklyn New York, Hugues has lived in Japan for over a decade. He is the president of www.art-HRM.com located in Ashiya, the Hyogo Prefecture of Japan. He is known for creating a confluence of traditional Ukiyoe art with contemporary lifestyle, called Symbiosis. He is also known for his unique academic intricate pencil rendering and abstract textures that blossom into high renaissance realism.
His works of art were recently exhibited at the Ashiya City Museum of Art and History recently for 3 months.

It is a little known fact that extraordinary talents can be revealed and expressed in art on the highest level of artistic communication from Down syndrome, severe intellectual disability, and Autism patients. Artist Hugues Mathieu, as a sensitive and dedicated artist – has been able to communicate with the students and gain their trust. Through unique communication they have produced stunning abstract works that move the viewer to a subconscious world of multi color techniques that move the heart.

The consistently strong quality of each work function at the highest level of abstraction, composition, color balance, whimsy, motion, rhythm and originality: all aspects which these students appear to be enjoying while making the art that communicates!

Congratulations Mr. Hugues R Mathieu for sharing these exceptional works of art created from the heart with us in New York
Art-HRM Inc
Hyougoken Nishinomiyashi
kurakuen 3 bancho 18-5 662-0081

Professor, artist Karen Santry Westbeth Artist Housing