Click to enlarge. Photos on poster by David Plaake.

June 20 – July 14, 2024

Hours:
Friday, Saturday, Sunday 1pm – 6-m

• WALK AND TALKS:
  Saturday July 13, 2024
  There is a Crack in Everything at 3pm
  Ex Femina at 4PM

Art Take-Over is part of West Side Fest

Ex-Femina
Co-curated by Valérie Hallier and Noah Trapolino
*Located within Westbeth’s former child care center

Ex-Femina, Latin for “from woman,” encapsulates the profound transformation in the portrayal of femininity and the female gaze within contemporary art. This evolution is not merely a shift in representation but a reclamation of agency, identity, and perspective.

International artists of various genders explore, through mediums including sculpture, painting, photography, collage, drawing, diorama and textile art, facets of womanhood beyond the confines of objectification and passive observation. They depict women as subjects with complex narratives, desires, and emotions. Through figurative and abstract forms, they explore themes of fertility, nature, animality, intimacy, technology, spirituality, consumption and trickery among others.

Ex-Femina inclusively and playfully celebrates the multifaceted nature of the female experience beyond conventional constructs.

Exhibiting artists include: Louisa Armbrust, Aisha T Bell, Amy Butowicz, Martin Campos, Tiffany Cole, Ursula Endlicher, Natasha Gornik, Valérie Hallier, Lily Hyon, Daniel Maidman, Jody MacDonald, Shiri Mordechay, Serena Nickson, Agnès Pezeu, Roxane Revon, Morgan Suter,
Elizabeth Tolson, and Noah Trapolino.

There is a crack in everything
Curated by Valérie Hallier
*Located within Westbeth’s former Synagogue space

There is a crack in everything regroups contemporary artists working in installation, sculpture, drawing, painting, photography and video art. The show stages the duality of existence, with some artwork emerging from darkness while others bask in the glow of light. The title, inspired by Leonard Cohen’s lyrics, serves as a metaphor for the inherent imperfections and vulnerabilities within our reality as well as within the previously dormant space the show populates and brings back to life.

The vast space still shows its defects as the artists imprint their own realities and dreamscapes onto its rough edges and surfaces, but there is transformation, instability, there is expectation. We undulate between chaos and order, soft and hard, organic and artificial, light and darkness. Nothing is fine, but you are.

Exhibiting artists include: Santina Amato, Amy Butowicz, CHiKA, Claudia Cortinez, Jean Foos,
Tom Fruin, Tessa Grundon, Valérie Hallier, Leslie Kerby & Lianne Arnold, Christina Massey,
Joseph Morris, Anne Muntges, Aston Philip, Matthew Schlanger, and Etty Yaniv.

There she lay
Curated by Claire Felonis
*Located within Westbeth’s former sculpture studio

The Westbeth building, originally home to Bell Labs, was partly submerged underwater during Hurricane Sandy. Drenched in history, it serves as the ground of this group exhibition emerging from the depths of collected memory, material investigation, human identity and metamorphosis.

The amalgamation of these six artists’ practices manifests in a dystopian world, which may have never existed at all. There she lay becomes a multidimensional dream-space suspended in time, where false artifacts are unearthed, strange fantasies lurk beneath the surface, and secret languages are whispered under crashing waves.

Exhibiting artists include: Earth Ængel, Vinny Castro, Sasha Fishman, Adrienne Greenblatt, Gitte Maria Möller, and Andreia Santana.

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