When: Saturday October 6 10AM – 4PM with 1 hour lunch break

Where: Westbeth Community Room

FREE
SENIORS ONLY

Bring scissors, magazines with photos

Experiment with the playful and spontaneous art form of collage and give shape to the images you discover in your fantasies.

In this fun, hands-on workshop you will learn how to express yourself creatively with step by step instruction.

JOAN HALL Biography
Native New Yorker Joan Hall is a pioneer in the field of collage and assemblage illustration. Her work has appeared on covers of Time magazine, and in The New York Times.
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, and Brazil. Ms. Hall was awarded a US State Department Cultural Grant to go to Mexico and train teachers to teach recycling to children by creating art using found objects and scrap images from magazines.

Six artists whose take on the phrase “Conflict of Interest” ranges from political, sociological, ecological, metaphorical to surreal. 
Each artist using their particular discipline, whether painting, photography, combination of both or sculpture, digital manipulation or installation, provoke us to question what is going on in the world right now and what kind of world are we leaving to future generations.

Participating Artists

Illtyd Barrett
ILLTYD BARRETT / BORN WELSH / RAISED COASTAL / PERSONALITY DEFECT / JOY RIDER / LONDON / DRUG TAKER / PUNK ROCKER / DYFED COLLEGE OF ART / CHELSEA SCHOOL OF ART/ EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY / FATHER / DAUGHTER / SCULPTURE TUTOR / ASSISTANT TO HERMAN DE VRIES / ASSISTANT TO ANDY GOLDSWORTHY /  POST GRAD /  NEW YORK / DEPT. OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS / PUBLIC ART FUND / DEPORTED / ILLEGAL / LEGAL / IMMIGRANT DESIGN / COCAINE / ILL / TRAVELLER / STEVE AND SAM / FAMILY /  GRANDDAUGHTER / BACK TO ART / GRANDSON / SUNKEN HUNDRED / DREAM COMES TRUE / DOMINIC ROCKS /
 NEW YORK WELSH / LOCATION,LOCATION, LOCATION / HOME TRUTHS / DIAGNOSIS /
 CLOSURE / FAILURE / HERE I AM AGAIN.

Mozart Dedeaux
“Conservationist /naturalist, Moz studied painting and sculpture at Loyola University in New Orleans, then worked in the music industry in NYC where he was a session player and recording artist with Capital Records. Currently he shows his work in galleries and universities and is the owner of Design DeDeaux, Organic Audio Recording in Gulfport MS, and Head Creative for Butch Oustalet Media.”

Aidan Grant
Let’s skip the nonsense of trying to navigate a narration of my life.  Let’s skip the lame attempt to validate being an artist. Let’s skip the tale of a determined creative from the old Emerald Isle.
The reality is my photo journalistic, magazine, analogue background became a defunct medium.
I’d traveled and schooled intensely, gained a legitimate understanding of exposure and saturation, just to be uninspired.
I found myself brooding behind a bar, often drunk and certainly disillusioned, seriously giving new meaning to exposure and saturation.  After years of ignoring my artistic will, I cracked.Luckily the cracks opened me up, acted as an aperture, and let the light back in. I could no longer ignore the picturesque images around me.
It was New York, the diversity, the people, music, art, culture, and mind bending humanity, all pleading with me to snap a shot.  And so I did. This time I photographed with a living experience so luminous, so drenched in the unexpected, and so riddled with human nature, that I saw things I hadn’t seen before.

The road down environmental portraiture is a road I want to be on. It has truly inspired me these last few years.  Course It’s also yielded many a photo of everyday city folk picking at a wedgie, priceless stuff.
I hope to take pictures here in NYC indefinitely, and yes I still sling beer with a brooding sneer.

Stephen Hall
Stephen Hall, born in Scotland, is an artist who takes a traditional approach to a modern subject. Now living in New York, his work is indicative of a surging talent which has been refined over many years. Each of his paintings is a composition of numerous layers, executed without any modern trickery such as digital assistance or an airbrush and the resulting lush density of color and variation of light owns the viewer’s attention.
Through his work, Stephen explores the relationships we have with not just each other, but times, places and surroundings – couple this with a desire to portray the underlying order in our increasingly chaotic lives and you end up with vivid, yet somewhat intoxicating imagery, finished with a slick style and intense precision. Over the past several years has become more interested in the threat posed by man on our environment and the wildlife living in it.
Stephen has not only been exhibiting worldwide since the early 80’s, but his work also resides in corporate and private collections and has been featured in movies, music videos and magazines. On top of this he has also illustrated book covers for A.A. Milne, J.G. Ballard and Russell Greenan amongst others.

Steve Joester
Steve Joester a British born photographer, began in the rock and roll world. He worked between the UK and the US, finally settling in NYC.

As a leading Rock & Roll photographer in the 70’s and 80’s, Joester had his iconic images of the greatest rock performers appear on album sleeves, posters, exhibitions and magazines worldwide. He made his mark shooting icons such as Mick Jagger, Bob Marley, Neil Young, Sting, and also documented Andy Warhol on film with Rob Halford of Judas Priest backstage at the Palladium in April, 1979.

Joester traveled to Cuba multiple times in the mid ’90’s, turning his lens on the streets of Old Havana, capturing the strange world of ‘the special period.’ Russia had pulled out, along with their funding, plunging the island into a desperate state. 

“The people of ‘La Habana Vieja’, materially, had nothing! But, creative spirit and time was in abundance and it was consumed at a languid yet intense pace”  

Joester’s work is in collections internationally.

Robert Ross
Robert is a builder, writer, actor, film maker, bon vivant, raconteur and man about town. He is pleased to be exhibiting as a fine artist for the first time. Proving once again that he is a jackass of all trades and master of none.

Join GVSHP to unveil an historic plaque marking the Westbeth Artist’s Housing complex in Greenwich Village. This unique complex of buildings served as the home of Bell Telephone Labs, where many technological innovations were developed or advanced, including radar, television and video telephones. The complex re-opened in 1970 as Westbeth, an early example of large-scale adaptive re-use of an industrial building.

Featured Speakers include:
Andrew Berman Executive Director of GVSHP
Patricia Jones Interim Executive Director of Westbeth
Nancy Gabor VP of Westbeth Artists Residents Council
Joan Davidson President Emeritus of J M Kaplan Fund
Domhnaill Hernon – Nokia Bell Labs

A Reception follows in the Westbeth Lobby

A Free Event

More info and registration at Grteenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

You’re Never Too Old to Play:

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and longing to be back under your wings to learn under your excellent guidance, to excel, to soar high and fly high!’

Michael
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When: Tuesdays, Oct 16, 23, 30, 2018 at 4:00PM – 5:30PM
Where: Westbeth Community Room

TUNE UP YOUR VIBES!

• Tune into Your Inner Reserves of Life Energy for Harmony and Wellbeing!
• Restore and Revitalize Yourself Naturally —
• Open to a Truly Joyful Life with just a handful of easy-to-learn techniques that effectively work with the body’s own energy system. 

In this workshop you will learn how you can harness your own energy to serve you in a myriad of ways. Stop rowing upstream against your own energetic currents. Learn the easy rules and regs of energy and watch your life change!

Part 1: ENERGY BALANCING EXERCISES Many of us would love to have more energy and vitality in our daily lives, and energy balancing gives us easy-to-use tools for balancing the energy fields of the body to improve every aspect of our physical and emotional lives. You will learn: *ways to wake your energy up and get it moving in the right direction; *how other people’s energy can affect you; *how to boost resilience and vitality; *how to release stress, balance emotions and build new inner circuitry that powers a balanced version of yourself. These energy exercises combine movement, tapping, and self-massage to enhance overall health and well-being.

Part 2: SOUND BATH — A Sound Bath intentionally uses sound to invite restorative results. Participants relax on mats or sit in a chair and allow the waves of sound to wash over them. The experience is guided by therapeutic instruments. Emerge feeling balanced, energized, and deeply connected to your best self!

The energy balancing techniques and processes in this workshop are from Kinesiology, Touch for Health and Energy Medicine. They are not designed for treatment or diagnosis and do not replace competent professional healthcare. Should you have any contraindications please check with your doctor before attending.
Bring your own mat, water & if you chill easily bring a cover.
 Sponsored by WARC with a grant from NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson

WHAT IS SOUND HEALING?

Sound Healing is founded on the premise that all matter is vibrating at specific frequencies. Science has proven that sound, or vibration, has a strong impact upon substance. Sound healing is a gentle, effective, non-invasive way to ease pain, reduce stress and ultimately have more joy.

Clinical studies have shown that an integral approach to sound healing helps with 80% of health challenges.

Melissa Zollo is a graduate of the Sound Healing Academy in England and is a certified integral sound healer, vibrational sound practitioner, Touch for Health & Applied Kinesiology Energy Facilitator.

She is a certified restorative hypnotherapist with advanced certifications in hypnosis for cancer patients, imprint removal, weight loss, regression, painless childbirth and hoarding.

Ms. Zollo is the author of “Daily Appetizer’s to Make Life a Feast” and the audio programs: Discover the Power of Imagination & the Art of Intentional Creation, How to Release the Power Within and Attract Money and Secrets of the Law of Vibration.

For more information please visit www.melissazollo.com
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PETER REGINATO
DAY TO NIGHT
WESTBETH GALLERY
JUNE 7 – JULY 1, 2018
Tuesday – Sunday 11am – 6pm

The show will be mostly paintings I’ve made in the last 8 months and large 70×96 inches .There’s 2 groups maybe 3 ,one group is what I call “paintings and pictures” and another group I call “cover up” and the odd group is just that ,one off ideas I have no idea where it’s going at this time .All the paintings have some relationship to the drawings I make everyday but I don’t use them directly for the paintings, as I work on the paintings it’s all about decisions , problem solving ,drawing and color. I have no themes or plans only to see if I can use the knowledge I’ve gained in the previous work to make a better painting .The work is intuitive.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Findlay Galleries Palm Beach FL Nov.-Dec. catalog NYC
2016 The Butler Institute of American Art. Howland Township Ohio TRUMBULL BRANCH “Seeing Things ” June 12 -August 20th
2015 Museum of Art Peter Reginato: “ECCENTRIC CONSTRUCTIONS” April 17th through July 5, 2015 Museum of Art – DeLand, FL
2013
Baker Sponder Gallery “REGINATO” Boca Raton FL Jan.10-Feb.13
2011
Heidi Cho Gallery Chelsea NYC “POLYCRHOME”
2009
Heidi Cho Gallery in association with Stephen and Victoria Montifiore/ Mountain Flower LLC Chelsea NY
“Steel Drawings”
2006
White8 Gallery, “Dancing on the Volcano”, Villach, Austria
Headbones Gallery, “Situation, Positioning, Location”, Toronto, Canada ( Drawings)
2005
Heidi Cho Gallery, “Color Coded”, Two-Man Show with Ronnie Landfield, Chelsea, NY
2003
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
“Eye Candy”
1997-98
New Jersey Center for the Arts, Summit, New Jersey
1994
Adelson Galleries and William Beadleston, Inc, 395 West Broadway,NY
1988
The Brunnier Gallery and Museum, Five Year Survey: Peter Reginato, Iowa
State University, Ames, Iowa
1971
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY Jan.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015
University of Kentucky “BOTTOMS UP ” A Sculpture Survey curator Janie Welker Sept.12 -Dec.18th
2013
Gagosian Gallery NYC “Works of the Jenny Archive” March 7-April 27 Madison Ave Gallery
2011
Navy Pier Walk ,July 1-Nov.6 Chicago Ill Picked by Dave Hickey Curator Joseph Tabet
2008
The University of Texas at Austin”LANDMARKS” long-term loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
Adelson Galleries “Contemporary Summer Group”, June 16th through September 12th, New York City
Inaugural presentation,Sculpture Garden,Jane and Arthur Stieren Center for Exhibitions,McNay Art Museum San Antonio TX
1988
William’s College Museum, Little Big Sculpture, Williamstown, MA
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Photo of “Kingfish” on roof garden
1975
Hayward Gallery, The Condition of Sculpture, London

SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

Cohen ,David ARTCRITICAL PICK: Peter Reginato at Adelson Galleries NYC June 4th-Aug.21st 2015
Yau, John HYPERALLERGIC “Rowdy Celebrations” June 21st ,2015
Panero,James Supreme Fiction” This week: Peter Reginato” June 26th, 2015
Reep , Richard :PETER REGINATO: ECCENTRIC CONSTRUCTIONS through
Wilkin, Karen, The Hudson Review, Autumn 2007
Glueck, Grace, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, November 4, 2005
McCarthy, Gerard, “Peter Reginato at Adelson Gallery”, Art in America, January, 2002, p. 104
Kimmelman, Michael, “Art and Friendship: Selections from The Roland F. Pease Collection,” New York
Times, September 5, 1997
Pardee, Hearne, ARTnews, September 1994, p. 173
Koplos, Janet, Art in America, September 1994, p. 113
Ratcliff, Carter, “Reginato’s Improvisations,” Art in America, December 1989, pp.
Zimmer, William, “Crossover at the Gallery at Hastings on Hudson,” The New York Times, September 27,
1987
Firestone, Evan, “In Praise of Steel: Notes on Some Recent Direct Metal Sculpture,” Arts, April 1986, p. 44
Zimmer,William “Work That Fits the Settings” New York Times Feb.6 1983
Russell, John, The New York Times, July 17, 1981
Raynor, Vivian, The New York Times, July 19, 1980
Crossley, Mimi, Houston Post, January 30, 1980, p. 8AA
Carmean, Jr., E.A., Arts, June 1978, p.26
Kramer, Hilton, The New York Times, March 18, 1977
Cork, Richard, “Blackball at the Sculptors Club,” Evening Standard, May 6, 1975
Shirey, David, The New York Times, February 28, 1973
Pincus-Witten,Robert Artforum ,March 1971 v.9 page 62
Canaday, John, The New York Times, February 17, 1972
“The Young Life,” Vogue, January 1969
“Tortured Vision of Artist Shown at Open Theatre Gallery”
William C. Haigwood Jan. 1966 Berkeley Daily Gazette