October 8 – November 12, 2022
Opening Reception Saturday Oct 8. 5pm – 8pm

Walking Tour Artist Talk October 22, 2022 3pm – 5pm

PRINT/PAINT is an exhibition of twelve multidisciplinary and long-term Westbeth residents initially intended to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Westbeth Graphics Studio in 2020. After a two-year postponement due to the COVID pandemic, the show opens with a new concept in Westbeth Gallery, honoring the Graphics Studio and highlighting possibilities of printmaking by placing it in direct conversation with painting.

Beyond these twelve artists, within Westbeth, there is an array of communities and sub-communities dedicated to a continued and specific practice. PRINT/PAINT is ultimately a celebration of the versatility of artists’ practices that thrive in the creative oasis where lifelong experimentation is encouraged and expected. Residency in Westbeth has offered these artists a platform to share their expressions in print and painting form with freedom and support. PRINT/PAINT is an example of what can be when access, funding, and support collide with an unfettered creative process.

– from Introductory Essay by Izzy Nova

Participating Artists

Juanita McNeely (b.1936, St. Louis, MO) moved to New York in 1967 and became entrenched in the city’s artistic community and feminist collectives. Her depiction of the human figure displays extreme physicality—pairing angst and pain in close tandem with a sheer pleasure of existence in body and mind. With the challenges of patriarchal discourse and illness from an early age, McNeely’s art is a lifeline that transforms notions of who may and may not handle certain imagery. James Fuentes Gallery

Francia is an internationally exhibiting and collected artist and recipient of the Gottlieb Foundation, NY Foundation for the Arts, Nat’l Endowment for the Arts-Kentucky Arts Commission. Exhibitions include Musée des Beaux Arts, Switzerland, Interni D’Arte,Italy., Mizel Museum, CO, Brooklyn Museum, NYC; Indianapolis Museum, IN; Hartwick College Museum, NY; J.B. Speed Museum, KY; Evansville Museum, IN; Owensboro Museum, KY; National Jewish Museum, KY; and National Jewish Museum, D.C. studiofrancia.com

Christina Maile is a writer, printmaker, and a landscape architect. She received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Joan Mitchell Studio Grant and was twice awarded a Miriam Chaikin Foundation Grant for Writing. She co-founded the Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective Her work in the Feminist Artists Collection at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY, the White Columns Gallery database of artists, and is represented in many private collections. Christina Maile

Claire Rosenfeld’s Figurative Expressionist paintings and prints have appeared in solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad. Among the residencies she has been awarded are Fundación Valparaiso, Spain; Fundación Central Cultural, Dominican Republic; Michael Karolyi Foundation, France; MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Ossabaw Island Project. Rosenfeld has a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, an MFA from Queens College, and studied at the New York Studio School. Claire Rosenfeld

Cari Rosmarin is a State University of New York, Buffalo and Hunter College, NYC graduate. NYC exhibitions of her drawings and paintings include The Drawing Center, June Kelly Gallery, White Columns, and The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Nationwide exhibits comprise Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, NY; Provincetown Museum, MA; Nassau County Museum and the Islip Museum, Long Island, NY; Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, FL. She is in numerous private and corporate collections.Cari Rosmarin

Parviz Mohassel. A licensed architect, his Ph.D dissertation dealt with the relationship of phenomenology to architectural drawings. He studied with Dan Rice, a second-generation abstract painter whose gestural elegance and focus continues to inform Parviz’s work. A guest lecturer at Stony Brook University, he has curated shows on abstract painting with themes of ambiguity and place. His work has been shown at Westbeth Gallery, New Haven Open Studios, Broome St Gallery, and DIAA Gallery in Stonington, ME.Parviz Mohassel

William Kennon has exhibited widely in New York, most notably at Westbeth Gallery, The Old Print Shop and Hirschl and Adler Galleries and the Galerie Benamou in Paris. His work is included in many private collections. Selected memberships and awards: Allied Artists of America, Society of American Graphic Artists, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Allied Artists Bronze and Gold Medals. B.A. Washington University in Saint Louis, MA Columbia University, Art Students League. William Kennon

Sheila Schwid, born in Milwaukee, WI, received her degrees from the University of Nebraska Omaha and Art Center School in Los Angeles. As an NYC resident, she participated in 10th Street exhibits and happenings of Red Grooms in the 70s. Selected exhibitions include Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH; Bienville Gallery, New Orleans, LA; and Provincetown Art Association Museum, MA. Carter Burden Gallery, NYC; AMP Art Market, Provincetown, MA; The Hemley Gallery, Israel, represents Schwid. Sheila Schwid

Jackie Lipton is a New York City based abstract painter, printmaker, educator andactivist. She has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner and Gottlieb Foundations as well as awards from NYFA and NYFAI, and an NEA funded collaborative project. Her residencies include MacDowell, Cummington Community of the Arts, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Boreas Gallery in Reykjavik, Iceland. jackielipton.com

Gerald Marcus has shown his work in many exhibitions in New York City and internationally including, The National Academy of Design, New York; The Hollar Society, Prague; The International Print Center, New York; Smith College; the Prince Street Gallery, New York and other museums and universities. He is a former president of The Society of American Graphic Artists. Gerald Marcus

Simon Carr is a painter and printmaker, living and working in New York City, and upstate New York. His work is represented by the Bowery Gallery in New York and by the Alice Gauvin Gallery in Portland, Maine. He received an MFA from Parsons School of Design in 1981. He teaches drawing at Borough of Manhattan Community College. for more information: Simon Carr

Born 1936 Cologne, Germany, Hans Haacke earned the equivalent of an MFA at Staatl. Werkakademie, Kassel, in1960. He moved to New York in 1965 and taught at The Cooper Union 1967 – 2002. An early contributor to institutional critique, his works were censored or shunned by many art institutions. But they were also exhibited and collected by others worldwide. His most recent solo show was 2019 at the New Museum, New York. Haacke shared a Golden Lion with Nam June Paik at the 1993 Venice Biennial. Hans Haacke

Acknowledgements:
Special thanks to James Fuentes Gallery for loan of Juanita McNeely artwork

Catalog Design: William Kennon and John Turner

Exhibition Organizer: Christina Maile

Exhibition Co-organizers: Izzy Nova and Parviz Mohassel