Dates: February 3 through February 24, 2018

Opening Reception February 3rd, 6-8 pm

Music in the Afternoon February 11th 4-6pm
Special guest: Andrew Bolotowsky, flutist with other fine musicians

Closing festivities on Saturday February 24, 4 – 6pm will include a performance by critically acclaimed singer and actor Molly Pope at 4pm
(see musical event description below)

Gallery hours: Wednesday – Sunday 1-6pm

For more information contact Deborah Day: 212 754-6767
www.fedart.org

The Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors presents Sound and Image, an exhibition at the Westbeth Gallery on the theme of image and music.

In his On the Spiritual in Art, Kandinsky wrote: “Colour is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings.” Ever since Kandinsky likened paint to music, modernists have been thinking hard about the influential ways that visual art and music come together.

This exhibition explores the sounds of paint, ink and other media through the works of a group that has been an ensemble for 78 years and whose artists have been and still are fascinated by the coming together of two art forms. Founding member Mark Rothko’s son Christopher writes about his father: “Music was central to my father’s world—to his own aesthetic sensibilities, certainly, but also to the structure and expressive modes he found as a painter. I think it’s fair to say he was a painter who aspired to be a musician.”

Interactive links to music are incorporated into the exhibition, as well as music events including an afternoon featuring Andrew Bolotowsky, flutist and son of Federation founder Ilya Bolotowsky, on February 11, 2018, 4-6pm in the gallery.

ARTISTS:

Westbeth Icons is a project that celebrates the work and life of senior Westbeth artists who continue to passionately work in their artistic field. It is funded by the Westbeth Artists Residents Council with a grant from NYC Council Speaker, Corey Johnson.

Terry Stoller spoke with Edward Field previously about his decision to become a poet, his first “teacher,” the effects of New Criticism on poetic language and subject matter, his pursuing his own direction with his writing, the challenges of being a gay poet in the early days, and the blessings of his later years.

see more about Edward Field HERE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Joe McConnell, Treatment Action Group
PHONE: 212-253-7922

Email: joe.mcconnell@treatmentactiongroup.org

TREATMENT ACTION GROUP ANNOUNCES HISTORIC ART EXHIBITION AND SALE AT WESTBETH GALLERY

TAG Limited Art Editions 1999 – 2017
March 21 – Saturday March 24, 2018; Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 21, 6 – 8 pm

Treatment Action Group is pleased to present the exhibition
TAG Limited Art Editions 1999 – 2017. Running from Wednesday March 21 through Saturday March
24, 2018 at Westbeth Gallery (www.westbeth.org), located at 55 Bethune Street in New York City. Gallery hours are: Wednesday thru Saturday from 1 pm to 8 pm.

This exhibition marks the first time that all 14 editions will be exhibited together. A full-color catalog accompanies the exhibition with an essay by Joy Episalla. It will be available for purchase in the gallery and after the exhibition at: http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/limited-art-editions.

The TAG art collection started in 1999 through the donation of over 30 silver gelatin selenium-toned prints by the photographer Ben Thornberry. Thornberry’s images document ACT UP (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power) AIDS activists in action during the height of the AIDS crisis, from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. Since 2005, the collection has continued to grow through the TAG Limited Art Editions. Overseeing the editions is board member, artist, and long-time AIDS activist Joy Episalla. Episalla has helped gather a stellar group of artists who have generously donated editions specifically produced for TAG. Treatment Action Group hopes you will consider joining these artists in supporting TAG’s important and life-saving work by adding to your art collection.

Included in the exhibition are Erica Baum (2017), Rosalind Fox Solomon (2016), Joy Episalla (2015), Kate Shepherd (2014), Nan Goldin (2013), Robert Gober (2012), Bill Jacobson (2011), fierce pussy (2010), Donald Moffett (2009), Tony Feher (2008), Carrie Yamaoka (2007), David Armstrong (2006), Richard Renaldi (2005), and Ben Thornberry (1999). TAG wants to thank each of these artists for their generosity.

Event
A panel discussion will take place, during the exhibition, at Westbeth Gallery:
Friday March 23 from 6 to 8 pm
The Legacy of Artists: David Armstrong, Tony Feher and David Wojnarowicz
Participants include the writer Cindy Carr, artist Joy Episalla, (list in formation).

Any changes to the panel will be posted on http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/westbeth.org

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Treatment Action Group (TAG) is an independent, activist and community-based research and policy think tank fighting for better treatment, prevention, a vaccine, and a cure for HIV, tuberculosis, and the hepatitis C virus. TAG works to ensure that all people with HIV, TB, or HCV receive lifesaving treatment, care, and information. We’re science-based treatment activists working to expand and accelerate vital research and effective community engagement with research and policy institutions. TAG catalyzes open collective action by all affected communities, scientists, and policy makers to end HIV, TB, and HCV.

Date and Time: SUNDAY March 18 at 1:00PM
Where: Westbeth Artists Housing 55 Bethune Street, corner of Washington Street in Manhattan
FREE

Westbeth Artist Housing was a haven for many well-known artists during the ’60s, including Diane Arbus, Benny Andrews, and Robert De Niro Sr. Originally an industrial complex whose conversion to artist lofts was designed by Richard Meier, Westbeth was the largest artists’ living-and-working space in the world at the time, and included artists from all disciplines: actors, sculptors, writers, musicians, dancers, and so on.

This free event allows visitors special access to present-day artist spaces at Westbeth. Participating artists include Bill Anthony, Jonathan Bauch, Beverly Brodsky, Anne Brody, Ray Ciarrocchi, Sandra Caplan, Jack Dowling, Jon D’Orazio, Tom Duncan, Patricia Hacker, Gerald Marcus, Avri Ohana, Jean Promutico, Sheila Schwid, David Seccombe, Shelley Seccombe, Frances Siegel, Ken Wade, and John Whittaker.

Part of: The ’60s: The Years that Changed America

Free Event

More Info at: Carnegie Hall Project

Contact: magda_dajani@outlook.com

From the World War 2 refugee camps in Latvia to Australia to India, to USA and all over the world, Vija Vetra has danced and choreographed for over 80 years, modern and classical Indian dances.
She gave a command performance before Queen Elizabeth as well as Indira Ghandi. In Latvia she has received many awards for her work and is a “National Treasure.”

Join us for an evening of readings by Award winners Joan Hall poetry, Kelly Nicole Long poetry, Joyce Yaeger prose.

Native New Yorker, Joan Hall is a pioneer in the field of collage and assemblage illustration. Hall’s 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 to lecture, exhibit, and conduct workshops in France, India, Brazil, and recently lectured at The National Arts Club in New York City.

Joan illustrated “The Policeman’s Beard Is Half-Constructed”, the first book ever written by a computer with a program called Racter and published by Warner Books.
Known for her artwork, Joan has also been writing poetry since she was 8 years old, when her poem, “Spring” won best in class. She is presently illustrating a book of her own poetry.
She has been a resident of Westbeth Artist Housing in New York City since 1971.

Kelly Nicole Long (b. 1984) is a visual artist and writer living and working in Chicago, IL. She was born and raised in Jacksonville, FL where she both attended and taught in Catholic schools. The politically fraught Floridian landscape, along with her experiences in Catholic institutions inform her artistic practice. Long earned a BFA in Ceramics and Sculpture from the University of North Florida (2005), and an MFA in Visual Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2016). Her interdisciplinary practice encompasses ceramics, installation, and writing.

For 45 years, Joyce Yaeger had a “day job” in public relations, moving on to the rest of her life in 2016. Her most recent paid job was as an exec at a mid-size PR firm in New York City. But her favorite job was as head of PR for The New York Public Library where she once had a private showing of the typewritten manuscript of Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ with Ezra Pound’s heavy black pencil edits. She also once held one of Virginia Woolf’s diaries in her greasy little hand (until it was politely removed). Very cool.

Most of the rest of her career, she developed and managed healthcare PR programs for Big Pharma She is a graduate of Syracuse University and started her career as a reporter for the Syracuse Post-Standard. She has lived in New York City since 1970 in lots of neighborhoods (East and West Villages, Chelsea, Gramercy, Hell’s Kitchen, Upper East and West Sides and Midtown West).

Today she lives in Midtown East with her partner Danielle of 11 years, and two cats, none of which write fiction. All four of them try to spend as many summer weekends as possible in Cherry Grove, Fire Island. In 1999, she was thrilled to receive the “MAGIC” award from Gilda’s Club, a cancer support community which she helped found. As a new writer of short fiction, she is even more proud of receiving the Miriam Chaiken Award for Writing.

Sympathetic Magic delves into the numinous and explores how different artists come to terms with the unseen through works that explore the bridge between the physical world and an invisible universe of memory and mystery.

The exhibition is about magical presence, about how the otherworldly manifests itself in each artist’s process.

Participating artists
Mara Alper, Desirée Alvarez, Jermaine Amuquandoh, Susan Austad, SoHyun Bae, Andrea Cohen, Elisa Decker, Mary DeVincentis, Gwen Fabricant, Mary Frank, Ana Garcès Kiley, France Garrido, Janet Goldner, Nancy Goldring, Ruth Hardinger, Erica Harris, Aristides Klafke, Pavel Kraus, Henrietta Mantooth, Brad Melamed, William A. Mills, Elaine Norman, Isabel De Obaldía, Chris Piazza, Kesler Pierre, Olga Spiegel, Sylvain & Ghyslaine Staëlens, Renée Stout, Marianne Weil, Tamara Wyndham, and Charles Yuen.

Individual pieces radiate a sense of transformative magic and remind us that magic is in the making and arises from alchemical processes, unseen forces, and dreams. Amulets, fetishes, and offerings capture the essence of shamanism through human interaction with plants and animals.

Some works have been designed for rituals to call down the gods, such as painted Haitian vodou altar bottles, and cornmeal vèvès drawn on the floor; photographs taken during ceremonies record moments of ecstatic trance.

Many images bear witness to the presence of an intangible magic and serve as portals to another world. Layered like double-exposures, they transport the viewer to an imagined realm.

Illumination from within transforms wire mesh and painted papier-mâché sculptures. Microcosms of the larger ever-changing universe, they invoke nebulae, icebergs calving and melting, or volcanic eruption.

Sculpture, paintings and wall-hung works emphasize the sensuality of materials, shifting the focus to the alchemical process of their creation. A Kabalistic Tree of Life on newspaper conjures a ghostly ward imbued with mesmerizing power. A small naked figure stands at the opening of a jaguar’s ravenous maw.

Gallery Event
Poetry and Music
April 8, 2018 Sunday 4PM – 6PM

For further information
Elisa Decker:
Telephone: 212-691-8266
Email: elidecker2@gmail.com

April 20-28, 2018
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 19, 6 – 9 PM

Westbeth Gallery
55 Bethune St
New York, NY 10014
Gallery hours: 12-6pm daily
finearts.parsons.edu
finearts.parsons.edu/2018mfathesis [Live April 11th]

Parsons School of Design at The New School is pleased to announce the Parsons Fine Arts 2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition Hybrid of Being curated by Kalia Brooks Nelson, showcasing work by Manar Abdelmaaboud, Layo Bright, Shuyi Cao, Joshua Coates, Gal Cohen, Freddie Dessau, Amy Dos Santos, Sareh Imani, Paloma Jimenez, Paulina Kim Joo, Andrés Martínez Ruiz, Lisa McCleary, Seungkyung Oh, Rebecca Ou, Anna Parisi, Al Prexta, Tianyu Qiu, Kevin Quiles Bonilla, Andrew Sapala, Zac Spears, Scynge Xing, Shunran Xue, and Steven Yang.

The artists in this show use the hybrid form to subvert concepts of singularity. Each artist takes a unique approach to representing the mixed parts that portray human reality more accurately. In so doing, their work helps the viewer understand how the exchange of materials and ideas become a currency by which new associations of subjective experience are formed. A myriad of themes are at play: the politics of nationality, race, labor, gender, and sexuality, that directly inform the way the human body appears in the world – as well as the relations of power that are inflicted upon it. The show also features artwork that evokes the faculties of the mind – memory, language, consciousness, and judgment – as they are informed through psychological events, social interaction, mundane objects, technology, education, and the built environment. The artists in this exhibition undermine the myth of essential unity to create space for new radical affiliations to develop in artistic practice, and cultural consciousness. This exhibition rests on the notion that difference creates a productive opportunity for disparate resources, techniques, and origins to discursively express the plurality of the human experience.

Kalia Brooks Nelson is a New York based curator and educator. She holds a PhD in Aesthetics and Art Theory at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, Portland, ME and is an ex-officio trustee on the Board of the Museum of the City of New York.

Parsons Fine Arts MFA is a dynamic two-year, cross-disciplinary program committed to expanding the formal, intellectual and conceptual dimensions of emerging artists’ work. Studio-based research and scholarship extends the boundaries of contemporary cultural expression, developed through a global understanding of the arts. Parsons Fine Arts is committed to diversity among students and faculty that provides a potent learning community. Housed within both Parsons School of Design and The New School University, the Fine Arts program is uniquely positioned within a progressive educational environment. Our international student body has access to a wide spectrum of activities, ranging from rigorous formal and aesthetic investigations to
cross-disciplinary collaborations with design, performing arts and humanities students, to public forums that address pressing social and political concerns. Our Visiting Artist Lecture Series and our Critic and Curator Series features renowned, multidisciplinary artists, curators and critics. In 2018 visitors include: Jamian Juliano Villani, Wu Tsang, Ajay Kurian, Adriane Colburn, Carlos Motta, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Heather Hart, Derrick Adams, Mernet Larsen and Mika Rottenberg.

About Parsons School of Design. Founded in 1896, Parsons has served as a pioneer in the field of Art and Design for more than a century. Based in New York and internationally active, the school offers undergraduate and graduate programs in the full spectrum of design disciplines. Critical thinking, research and collaboration are at the heart of a Parsons education. An integral part of The New School, Parsons builds on the university’s legacy of progressive ideals, scholarship and pedagogy. Parsons graduates are leaders in their respective fields, with a shared commitment to creatively and critically addressing the complexities of life in the 21st century.

In 2018, QS World University Rankings, a London-based higher education organization, named Parsons the number one College for Art and Design in the United States, and number two internationally.

For more information please visit finearts.parsons.edu or contact MFA Program Director, Associate Professor
Simone Douglas at douglass@newschool.edu

Actor with the Open Theater, Costume designer for Erich Hawkins Dance Company, Father of New York City’s Halloween Parade and creator of puppet shows with Mettawee Theater Company, Ralph Lee is the latest Westbeth Icon

Featuring Dr Jeffrey Naiditch, Elizabeth Abramova ANP, MSN, RN and our favorite pharmacist, Ilana Aminov BSPharm, RPh in an in-depth review of keeping healthy sexually. For all ages and interests, bring questions, get answers.

Refreshments and entertainment.

FREE

Let’s Talk is a series of health discussions by health professionals presented by our neighborhood Grove Pharmacy and Westbeth Artists Residents Council. Previous titles in the series include mental health, sleep disorders, music and memory and more.

Look for a Fall schedule in Sept 2018.