JULY 2nd – JULY 27th, 2025

Opening Reception: Wednesday July 2nd ,2025 from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Sunday from 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM

ARTIST TALKS – see below for description and schedule.

The Westbeth Gallery is pleased to present four solo shows by the artists: Avri Ohana, Faten Gaddes, Masha Neverova, and Tami Luchow. These artists, all of whom now live in the USA, come from four continents. While they represent four different cultural backgrounds, visions, and concerns, they recognize in each other the courage in pursuing their individual freedom of expression.

AVRI OHANA – NATURE WITHIN (Main Gallery) is a composite of Ohana’s work as a multi style painter. His loveof nature, as represented in his new paintings, sensitively combines his semi-figurative and abstract styles. A common thread throughout the works is his rich treatment of color and textual layering. In a way, this is a retrospective of his 60-years’ work as influenced by his childhood in Morocco, his formative years in Israel, and his later life in New York. Ohana finds a sense of freedom as he lets unexpected elements surface in these works. www.avriohana.com

FATEN GADDES – HALWA (Gallery 1) is a powerful multimedia installation that revisits a work destroyed in Tunisia in 2012 following an act of violence motivated by religious extremism. Thirteen years later, she returns to this silenced piece through a new creation that weaves together sculpture, video performance, drawing, and archival fragments. Conceived during her residency at Westbeth, HALWA is both an act of remembrance and transformation — a gesture of healing, resistance, and artistic rebirth. The work reclaims a voice and reconstructs a story through presence, material, and memory.
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MASHA NEVEROVA – FOOTHOLDS (Gallery 2). For the artist, such footholds became the plants that grew inplaces of personal significance. This led to a series of drawings and paintings developed over years—first in her native Saint Petersburg and Belarus, and later in emigration to Israel, Georgia, and the United States. The works combine botanical illustration with expressive abstraction in strokes and lines. Together, they form a layered image that reflects the structure of memory. Alongside the artworks is a boat-shaped installation that stands as a symbol of the path taken and the possibility of moving forward.
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TAMI LUCHOW – DIS IS LIFE : DIS IS YOU : DIS IS ME : DIS IS US (Gallery 3). This is the KICKOFF of THE DIS TOUR with Tami Luchow, author, artist, and speaker, as she boldly gathers voices from around the country and around the world featuring representation and visibility for marginalized people! The exhibit features multimedia works that push boundaries and foster community across humanity including photography, multimedia, sculpture, mobiles, and interactive pieces. DON’T DIS US, JOIN US! www.tamiluchow.com | Instagram @tamiluchow

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AVRI OHANA and MASHA NEVEROVA moderated by Ze’eva Cohen. professor emerita, Princeton University
Wednesday July 9, 7pm -8 pm

Avri Ohana and Masha Neverova will discuss their artistic journey, including the main influences that inspired their art, as well as their current work as represented in their repective shows: Ohana’s, Nature Within, and Neverova’s, Foothold.
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Download Masha Neverova Individual Press Release
Download Avri Ohana Masha Neverova Bios

Avri Ohana, born in Morocco immigrated to Israel at the age of 12. He lived in Ein Hod, Israel’s first artist village, where he was influenced by the European Dadaist Marcel Janco, and the painter Eric Brauer of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. Ohana’s exhibitions include solo and group shows in Israel, Europe, and the United States, where he has been living for many years.

Masha Neverova was born in Leningrad USSR . As a child, she was highly influenced by her father who is a visual artist. . She studied at The School of Contemporary Art ‘Free Workshops’ at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Neverova works with themes related to ritual, trauma, myth, and memory. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Israel, Georgia, Lithuania, and Russia.

FATEN GADDES with Valèrie Hallier, Visual Arts chair Westbeth Gallery, and Ashley Tucker, co-director of Artistic Freedom Initiative.
Thursday July 17, 7pm – 8pm

This three-way conversation will revisit the genesis of HALWA, a work created thirteen years after the burning of a previous installation by the artist in Tunisia.
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Faten Gaddes is a Franco-Tunisian artist based in New York. Her work is firmly rooted in the “duty of remembrance”, with strong political and social dimensions.She is currently developing a photographic and film-based project entitled “Itinerary”, in collaboration with Native American communities

TAMI LUCHOW.
Wednesday July 23, 7pm – 8pm

This marks the official kickoff of THE DIS TOUR, championing representation and visibility for marginalized communities, it features photography, multimedia, sculpture, mobiles, and interactive pieces.

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Tami Luchow is a keynote speaker, writer, changemaker, leader, and she is the author of the bestselling Poems for A Memory. Tami runs workshops on representation, community, belonging and self-care. She advises C-suites, executive teams, and human resource professionals. Tami is also a motivational speaker at businesses, universities, schools, camps, and other organizations encouraging everyone to build more confident, meaningful, and successful lives.