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Barbara Slitkin
Blooming in the Dark of a Full Flower Moon

Black fields of white lineal flowers. Mental flora had the artist’s brush singing “Paint it Black”. A yin/yang pattern of the Cosmos and the Spirit. Bearing a bouquet to blossom in the Dark.

Barbara Slitkin became a proud Westbeth resident in 2007, as a career artist exhibiting in NYC from 1980’s on, with many Solo exhibitions as Artist in Residence in New York Public Library. With two popular shows here at Westbeth, since 2009.

Now teaching a private group on the L.E.S.

Last summer was celebrated for a long art teaching career with the historical Educational Alliance on East Broadway.
Slitkin’s work is currently in private and museum collections worldwide.

Robert Bunkin
Recent Paintings

Show Dates: October 5 – December 29, 2019

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 5 from 4PM – 7PM

Robert Bunkin
Figurative painter, art historian and curator, Bunkin is a native New Yorker. He studied at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, undergraduate degree from the CUNY BA/BS Program, MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Bunkin lived and studied in Florence, Italy between 1986-88. He returned to Italy in 2000 to perfect his fresco technique at the Tintori Laboratory for True Fresco in Vainella (near Prato) on a Parsons School of Design Faculty Leave Grant. He has also spent some time studying and teaching in Beijing.

Bunkin’s work has been seen in solo and group exhibitions locally, nationally, in Italy and China.
He has taught studio art and art history at Wagner College, Parsons School of Design, NYU Continuing Education, the New School, and Borough of Manhattan Community College, the Art Students League, Grand Central Atelier, LIC and Florence Academy, at MANA in Jersey City. From 2011-2017 he was Art Curator at the Staten Island Museum, overseeing its inaugural art exhibitions when it opened at Snug Harbor. He has also curated major exhibitions at the Newhouse Center and at other venues throughout the City.

Bunkin lived in Staten Island, for 25 years, moving to Westbeth in 2014. Since then he has been very active in the visual arts culture of Westbeth, having curated or worked on several exhibitions in the Gallery, most recently Parent Portraits in May-June 2019.

BREAKING GROUND: Twenty Years of the New York Chinese Scholars Garden

Robert Bunkin will be showing a portion of Under Construction, a fresco installation depicting the Chinese Artisans who built the New York Chinese Scholars Garden.

Show Dates: Oct 19 – December 29, 2019

Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art (Buildings C and G)
$5 Gallery Admission

See attached flier.

You’re Never Too Old to Play
Acting Workshop for Seniors
with Nancy Gabor

The 12 week workshop meets every Thursday from September 19 to December 12 from 11am – 2pm.

Space is limited, so sign up NOW.
Email: gaborworks@gmail.com
You must be 55 years old and up.

Nancy Gabor, director and acting teacher leads a 12 week continuous workshop concentrating on movement, improvisation, and storytelling. No experience necessary. Learn and grow in a safe, supportive environment.

Sponsored by the Westbeth Artists Residents Council, the creative Aging Workshop is a partnership between the Westbeth Artists Residents Council and Pier 55. Open to the public year round, Pier 55 will revitalize a part of Hudson River Park with almost 3 acres of new public park space featuring lush greenery and a diverse array of accessible arts, educational and community programming to people of all ages. It will be an iconic and welcoming open space for all New Yorkers. Opening in Hudson River Park near 13th St in Spring 2021.

Kate Walter and Bob Gruen interviewed by WFUV in celebration of Woodstock’s 50th anniversary.

Hundreds of rock music fans jam highway leading from Bethel, New York, Aug. 16, 1969 as they try to leave the Woodstock Music and Art Festival. Two hundred thousand persons spent a rainy night at the festival. (AP Photo)

Hear interview and see the pix:
WFUV – Back to the Garden

Read Kate Walter’s “Woodstock – My Queer Love Story” HERE

Beverly Brodsky just received the Marquis Life Time Achievement Award: Who’s Who In America. Her work is currently on exhibit at Quogue Gallery 2019-2020.

Quogue Gallery’s mission is to present a program of artistic excellence by showcasing the work of prominent, mid-career and emerging artists in the modernist tradition. Its core focus is on discovering and exhibiting figurative and abstract expressionist painters who are recognized historically as well as those of great promise who have fallen through cracks of history.
Since its founding in 2014, the Gallery’s growing presence in the modern and contemporary art world has been acknowledged by the press. The gallery has been featured in many publications, including the New York Times, Dan’s Paper, Beach Magazine, Hamptons Art Hub, Artnet News, Southampton Press, and others. The gallery also has been recognized for the quality of its exhibitions by Hamptons Art Hub, Artnet News and other outlets.

Beverly Brodsky’s work at Quoque Gallery

Barbara Hammer’s film “History Lessons Redo – Meat Market 2019” will be featured at the Whitney Museum on Aug 2, 3 2019


Invisible Monuments
Fri, Aug 2, 2019, 7 pm
Sat, Aug 3, 2019, 4 pm
Floor 3, Susan and John Hess Family Gallery and Theater

The 2019 Biennial features three weekends of film programming selected by guest curators. Invisible Monuments (August 2–3) is curated by Matt Wolf.

At the corner of Gansevoort and Washington Streets, the recently constructed Whitney Museum lies at the intersection of multiple queer New York histories. Through newly commissioned and historic works by Sam Green, Barbara Hammer, and a collective of filmmakers from FIERCE and Paper Tiger Television, this program reflects on the erasure and preservation of queer history. Beyond a traditional film screening, this expanded documentary event revitalizes films from the past and tells new stories through performance and conversation to recognize living history, the social realities of aging and trauma, and a spirit of resistance against gentrification.

This screening will be followed by a conversation with Matt Wolf and a selection of the artists and filmmakers.

FIERCE and Paper Tiger Television
Fenced Out, 2001

Sam Green
As yet untitled, 2019

Barbara Hammer
History Lessons Redo: The Meat Market, 2019

Tickets are required ($10 adults; $8 students, seniors, and visitors with disabilities; free for members). Capacity is limited; visitors are encouraged to purchase tickets in advance.

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Patricia Jones, Westbeth Exec Director, publishes, “Making Space for Artists ” in May 2019 Chelsea News .

“While all New Yorkers understand the challenge of finding housing with ample space within their budget, the need for affordable artists’ space extends beyond just housing. Studio space within Manhattan and much of Brooklyn also remains at a premium. Artists need studios in which to work, paint, choreograph, rehearse and record, and write. They need this space in order to create the work we love…..

If we New Yorkers value the arts as much as we say we do, it’s about time we made it possible for artists to live and work here without barely scraping by or moving to other cities more welcoming—and affordable—than our own.”

—- quoted from “Making Space for Artists” by Patricia Jones, Westbeth Interim Executive Director in Chelsea News

Read entire article HERE