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SUMMARY:Two Way River
DESCRIPTION:Postcard \nLocation: Westbeth Gallery\, 55 Bethune St\, New York\, NY 10014\nExhibition Dates: July 22-August 9\, 2025\, Wed.–Sun. 1-6pm\nOpening Reception: Thursday\, July 23\, 6-9pm\nArtist’s Talk: July 25\, Saturday\, 3-4:30pm\nClosing Reception: August 9\, Sunday\, 4-6pm \nParticipating Artists:\n Desirée Alvarez (NYC)\n Sabra Booth (San Antonio\, TX)\n Margaret Craig (San Antonio\, TX)\n Diana Jensen (NYC)\n Patricia Melvin (NYC)\n Arthur Polendo (NYC)\n Susan Rostow (NYC)\n Sophie Sanders (NYC)\n Doerte Weber (San Antonio\, TX) \nNote: Visitors are also invited to bring clean items\, natural or otherwise\, associated with rivers\, for an audience participation installation. Instructions will be available at the gallery. \nThe group of artists in Two-Way River respond sensuously and conceptually to the\nmovement of rivers. Some reside in New York\, and others are based in San Antonio\, providing\ncomparisons between the Hudson River and waterways in South Central Texas.   \nThe Hudson estuary moves with the ocean’s tidal rhythms\, its entire 153 miles from Troy to New York Harbor. It traverses Lenape\, Mohican\, and Mohawk homelands and is known by the Lenape as Muhheakantuck\, “the river that flows both ways. This estuary embodies interconnectednessthrough its bidirectional movement\, continuing to be a muse for visual artists\, notably from the\neponymous Hudson River School painters until the present. The New York-based artists have\nresponded to the River\, through diverse processes. They scavenge\, upcycle\, and luxuriate in its\nsurfaces.\n    In comparison\, the Texas-based artists in this exhibition reflect their specific environmental\nconcerns and the regional colors of a more rural\, dry terrain.  San Antonio is known as the\n“River City” due to its celebrated Riverwalk built during the Great Depression as a major Works\nProgress Administration’s (WPA) project. These San Antonio artists weave together a complex\nbody of work that examines South Central Texas rivers on their vast journey to the Gulf of\nMexico\, border concerns along the Rio Grande River\, and broader implications for plastics in\nour water supply. Tidal streams form in the lower reaches of the Texas rivers\, reversing the\nrivers’ direction as they do in the Hudson River. The San Antonio River’s source\, called the Blue\nHole\, just north of downtown San Antonio\, sits on top of the Edward’s Aquifer’s artesian zones\nand is one of the largest and purest sources for water in the world. \nThroughout this multifaceted exhibition that features animations\, book arts\, cyanotypes\, fiber\nart\, installations\, paintings\, printmaking\, and sculpture\, the artists acknowledge rivers as a fertile\nsource for creation. Conceived as a way of honoring the Hudson River’s presence for the\nWestbeth Gallery and the local West Village neighborhoods\, the exhibition invites us to reflect\nbroadly upon the primacy of rivers as an enduring inspiration for artists in the North and\nSouthwest.
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