BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Westbeth - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Westbeth X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://westbeth.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Westbeth REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251121T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251228T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T130522 CREATED:20251019T224900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251228T185006Z UID:10000861-1763730000-1766944800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Winter Show 2025Video\, Images\, Participants DESCRIPTION:WINTER SHOW WALKTHROUGH VIDEO\n \nSELECTED IMAGES FROM SHOW click on image to start slideshow\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\nDownload complete list of artists :\n2025 Westbeth Winter show artists \nNov 21 – Dec 28\, 2025\nOpening Reception: Friday Nov 21\, 2025 at 6pm – 8pm \nWestbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune St\nNYC 10014 \nWed – Sun 1pm – 6pm \nThe annual Westbeth Winter Show celebrates the recent work of Westbeth resident artists in all media: painting\, sculpture\, multimedia\, printmaking\, drawing and installation. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-winter-show-2025/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Westbeth-WINTER-SHOW-SQ.jpg GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250808T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250824T170000 DTSTAMP:20260423T130522 CREATED:20250704T192906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250826T025650Z UID:10000808-1754640000-1756054800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Lucienne Weinberger: A Life of Art DESCRIPTION:The Westbeth Gallery is pleased to present a retrospective exhibition of paintings\,\nmixed-media collages and sculptures by the late visual artist Lucienne Weinberger\n(June 23\, 1942\, October 22\, 2024). \nThe show is curated by Valérie Hallier. \nLucienne dedicated her entire adult life to making and teaching art.\nWhile attending Sarah Lawrence college\, she was introduced to the art of Japanese\nwoodcut. Upon graduation\, she left for Paris\, France\, where she lived for six years\nlearning to paint and speak French fluently. In Paris\, she met and married French artist\nJean-Marie Haessle. Together they immersed themselves in the Paris art world before\nmoving to Manhattan. After separating from her husband\, she lived in Westbeth Artist\nHousing for fifty-four years. During this time\, Lucienne Weinberger has exhibited her\nartwork in numerous galleries in the Catskills and at Westbeth.\nLucie spent many years teaching in independent schools in Manhattan\, including Bank\nStreet Children’s School and later at City and Country School. She had a special gift\nwith young children and was attuned to their innate creativity\, which also was a hallmark\nof her own art.\nExperimenting and following her interests for spirituality and gardening teamed with her\nnatural intuitive and playful hunches lead Weinberger to create an abundance of color\nrich paintings\, drawings\, sculptures\, mixed-media collages and relief wall constructions\,\nspanning six decades. \nIn Lucie’s own words:\n“The underlying intention in my art is to experience\, full engagement in the process\,\nalong with the adventure of discover in the doing of it\, to communicate that in the work\nitself\, and share it with the viewer.\nI approach my work in a spontaneous and unpremeditated way I see it is an adventure\,\nleaving me open to surprise\, the delightfully unexpected\, the coming together of\nelements which could not have been thought through\, but which are arrived at by\nexperimentation. Work begins with a choice of an element (a color\, shape\, piece of\nwood\, etc). The initial step triggers associations which leads to an improvisational\nresponse\, a dialogue of sorts between visual elements and my own creative process.\nEach piece is elaborated until a satisfying resolution occurs.” \nPlease join us for the opening reception of “Lucienne Weinberger: A Life of Art” with an\nopening reception on Friday August 8th\, 2025 and a closing on Sunday August 24th\,\n2025\, from 6-8PM.\nLucienne Weinberger’s website: https://www.luciennew.com/\nPlease contact westbethgallery@gmail.com for any questions or inquiries. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/lucienne-weinberger-a-life-of-art/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/LucienneWeinbreger_1080.jpg GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250702T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250727T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T130522 CREATED:20250608T232649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250727T183852Z UID:10000791-1751461200-1753639200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:4 Solo Shows: Avri Ohana\, Faten Gaddes\, Tami Luchow\, Masha Neverova DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nJULY 2nd – JULY 27th\, 2025 \nOpening Reception: Wednesday July 2nd \,2025 from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM \nGallery Hours: Wednesday – Sunday from 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM \nARTIST TALKS – see below for description and schedule. \nThe 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. \nAVRI 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 \nFATEN 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.\nwww.fatengaddes.com | Instagram @fatengaddes | LinkedIn @fatengaddes | X @fatengaddes \nMASHA 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.\nmashaneverova.com| Instagram @masha_neverova_ \nTAMI 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 \nFor inquires:zchohendf@gmail.com \nAVRI OHANA and MASHA NEVEROVA moderated by Ze’eva Cohen. professor emerita\, Princeton University\nWednesday July 9\, 7pm -8 pm\nAvri 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.\nDownload Avri Ohana Individual Press Release\nDownload Masha Neverova Individual Press Release\nDownload Avri Ohana Masha Neverova BiosAvri Ohana \nAvri 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. \n\nMasha Neverova \nMasha 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. \nFATEN GADDES with Valèrie Hallier\, Visual Arts chair Westbeth Gallery\, and Ashley Tucker\, co-director of Artistic Freedom Initiative.\nThursday July 17\, 7pm – 8pm\nThis 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.\nDownload Faten Gaddes Individual Press Release\nFaten Gaddes \nFaten 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 \nTAMI LUCHOW.\nWednesday July 23\, 7pm – 8pm\nThis marks the official kickoff of THE DIS TOUR\, championing representation and visibility for marginalized communities\, it features photography\, multimedia\, sculpture\, mobiles\, and interactive pieces. \nDownload Tami Luchow individual Press Release\n 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. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/4-solo-shows-avri-ohana-faten-gaddes-masha-neverova-tami-luchow/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/4-SoloShows-SQ-_1080_RGB.jpg GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250405T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250420T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T130522 CREATED:20250223T150749Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250425T234905Z UID:10000732-1743858000-1745172000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:MANIFEST IMAGES: Printmakers ShowJebah Baum\, Daniel Berlin\, Cathy Cone\, Dale Emmart\, Gwen Fabricant\, Jonathan Fabricant\, Christina Maile\, Claire Rosenfeld DESCRIPTION:ENCAUSTIC PRINTMAKING – EXPLANATION BY CLAIRE ROSENFELD\n\n \nLITHOGRAPHY DEMO WITH JEBAH BAUM\n\n \nPHOTOGRAPHS by ELLA BAUM OF APRIL 5\, 2025 OPENING OF MANIFEST IMAGES PLUS AN INSTALLATION VIDEO.\n\n\nCYANOTYPE DEMO WITH CHRISTINA MAILE\n\nscript src=”https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js”> \nApril 5 – April 20\, 2025\nOpening Reception Saturday April 5\, 6-8 pm \nWestbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune Street\, New York\, NY 10014\nGallery Hours: Wed-Sun\, 1- 6pm \nFeatured Artists: Jebah Baum\, Daniel Berlin\, Cathy Cone\, Dale Emmart\, Gwen Fabricant\,\nJonathan Fabricant\, Christina Maile\, Claire Rosenfeld \n____________________________________________________________________________\nIn printmaking there is always an intermediate step\, a gestational period during which an image is filtered through a process and intervened uponThe act of making prints is to repeatedly bear witness and experience the coinciding. manifestations of intention and imagination.The images printmakers create are declarations of arrival! With each new impression they announce themselves and reflect the various methods by which they are made. \nManifest Images is a group show with works by eight mid-career artists for whom printmaking is a vital part of their studio practice. This exhibition celebrates the breadth of printmaking media and some of the myriad ways that artists harness them to produce their work.The artists in this exhibit are unified in their efforts to expand the field of contemporary printmaking through personal experimentation and creative exploration.Printmaking\, like photography\, quickly evolved from its egalitarian origins as a method of reproduction and fine artists have enthusiastically embraced it for its unique expressive possibilities.\nSeveral artists in this exhibition use printmaking techniques to create monoprints in oil or encaustics\, or include collaged\, digitally printed elements within their painted surfaces.Some exploit the raw physicality of applying inks to paper under pressure via lithographic\, wood or linoleum matrices\, while others extract the finest detail from sensitized gravure plates to produce images with extraordinary tonal range. \nClick images to enlarge \nDaniel Berlinmonoprint \n Daniel Berlin My monotypes are executed in several passes through the press\, building up layers as I go. When I’m working on these prints\, I try to check-in and do a little sweeping out of preconceptions. A buoyant beginner’s mind emerges and a freshness that emphasizes direct experience. In this exhibit I am presenting several groupings of monotypes\, starting with those printed at Bud Shark’s Lithography in Colorado to those made recently at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale\, NY. \n \n  \nCathy Conephotogravure \nCathy Cone My practice of making and developing the printed image is activated by its materiality. I’m interested in the various states of inked matrices and their combinations and intersections in the pursuit of form. Photography guides me to a deeper understanding as I celebrate the possibility of transformation through the exploration of the printing plate\, digital file\, or negative\, leading towards a new situation. \n  \nJonathan Fabricantrelief print \nJonathan Fabricant In my prints I utilize grids\, geometric shapes\, patterns\, directional movement\, color\, and figure ground relationships. I work with the static matrix of the carved block\, pushing against repetition to create a series of unique images. I am drawn to relief printing because it has an inherent imprecision and funkiness which gives my geometric shapes character and room to breathe. \n  \nJebah Baum “Landscape” lithograph \nJebah Baum My lithographs are hand printed from multiple polyester plates with oil based inks on an American French Tool etching press. The plates are relatively inexpensive\, which allows me the freedom to work directly in a painterly manner. I begin with sketches and develop ideas in reaction to the unfolding visual narratives that emerge before me. My images are thus spontaneous\, gestural and expressive. Their horizontality evokes themes of landscape and a quality of restrained expansiveness. \n  \nChristina Maile “Grandmother’s Gods”cyanotype \nChristina Maile Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that creates blue tinted images by drawing with light and shadow. In preparing for this exhibit I realized that it might be capable of perfectly manifesting the non-visible and imaginary world into which recent experience had thrust me. I also feel strongly about the external world and will contrast these more personal images with giclee collages of war and desolation. \n  \nGwen Fabricant “Fern”inkjet print and collage \nGwen FabricantIn the works for this exhibition\, I have juxtaposed a mechanical form of reproduction with an intensely handmade one. Physical organic material is collaged over laser-printed images of plants I placed on a scanner and photographed. These are very different processes\, but both are ways of exploring the physical reality of our earthly nature and its visual expression. \nDale Emmart relief print artist book \nDale Emmart My works in this exhibition are relief prints made with a straightforward reduction technique\, generating pages for the scroll\, accordion\, and larger stab binding book forms. Unlike the fine craft of printmaking with accurate registration of color plates and controlled crisp edges\, the prints in these works are blunt\, hand-rubbed\, overlapped\, and more gestural than graphic. Closer to drawing\, the mishaps and unexpected artifacts of ink residue on intended figure-ground relationships construct these prints and book objects. \nClaire Rosenfeld ink and encaustic monotype collage \nClaire Rosenfeld I work in both ink and encaustic monotypes\, sometimes painting into the prints\, or collaging parts of them with drawings or watercolor images. By exploring nature in transition and the relationship of figures\, still\, moving and gesturing within the landscape\, I attempt to evoke a sense of mystery in familiar settings. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/manifest-images-printmakers-showjebah-baum-daniel-berlin-cathy-cone-dale-emmart-gwen-fabricant-jonathan-fabricant-christina-maile-claire-rosenfeld/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MANIFEST-SQ-IMAGES-WITH-CATHY-CONE.jpg GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250303T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250323T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T130522 CREATED:20250206T224535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250326T001722Z UID:10000719-1741006800-1742752800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:The Faraway Nearby Eight Asian women artists explore memory\, inheritance and identity DESCRIPTION:Video of Show \n\n \nClick to enlarge March 5–23\, 2025\nOpening Reception\nSaturday\, March 8th\, 2025 6–8pm \nCurated by Jiyeon Paik \nWestbeth Gallery\n155 Bank Street\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY\nHours: Wed–Sun 1–6 PM \nWestbeth Gallery is pleased to present The Faraway Nearby (TFN)\, a group exhibition featuring eight Asian women artists who engaged in a five-month-long dialogue project curated by Jiyeon Paik. Inspired by Rebecca Solnit’s book The Faraway Nearby\, this project is indebted to Solnit’s reflections on reading\, writing\, solitude\, and solidarity\, which form the conceptual foundation of this curatorial initiative. Through drawing\, painting\, sculpture\, photography\, video\, and installation—interwoven with excerpts from the artists’ conversations—the exhibition navigates themes of memory\, inheritance\, and identity\, offering an intricate exploration of personal and collective narratives. \nTFN Performance: Woman Ironingperformed by Kyoung eun Kang The exhibition opens with a performance by Kyoung eun Kang\, a 2023 TFN artist\, who reimagines Olga Cabral’s poem Woman Ironing—a former Westbeth resident—through movement and audience interaction. Revisiting Cabral’s portrayal of domestic labor\, Kang’s performance bridges past and present\, connecting historical perspectives on women’s work to contemporary struggles for recognition and solidarity. \nKazumi Tanaka FLOW Japense indigo dyed silk organza rope linen thread\, polyurethane foam and pins Jayoung Yoon THE OFFERING BOWL Artist’s hair and mother’s gray hair \nKazumi Tanaka and Jayoung Yoon reflect on maternal relationships through sculpture and object-based works imbued with deeply personal memories. Their works trace the passage of time\, reflecting on how love\, loss\, and inheritance shape identities across generations. \nsooim lee HUDSON RIVER Monoprint Xinyi Lui INNA ART SPACE Installaiton View Huangzhou \nsooim lee and Xinyi Liu delve into the experiences of immigrant women artists across different generations. lee\, who moved to New York in the 1980s\, reflects on the roles of wife\, mother\, and artist\, navigating the cultural expectations of her era. Liu\, a recent MFA graduate\, repeatedly dyes and layers mulberry paper and disposable wipes\, transforming these discarded materials into delicate skins\, each carrying its own story. As the layers dry\, they exist beyond gender and constraint\, offering a quiet yet persistent reflection on identity and transformation. \nJaimi Ho + Junli Song I SUSPECT THAT ON THIS GROUND THERE IS MAGIC BELOW AOU FEET Archival inkjet print acrylic Jamie ho + Junli Song IN FRONT OF THE GARDEN THERE IS A BLOSSOM OF LIGHT Archival Inkjet print acrylic \nJamie Ho and Junli Song’s collaborative practice merges photography and video to explore memory\, diaspora\, and personal history. As second-generation Chinese Americans\, they construct layered narratives using modularity and animation\, weaving together distinct visual languages to examine how identity is transmitted\, reconstructed\, and transformed over time. \nLipika Bhargava SOMEWHERE AAROUND THE CENTER pen and pencil on paper . Naho Taruishi UNTITLED graphite on paper \nLipika Bhargava and Naho Taruishi engage in an abstract dialogue on impermanence and remembrance through photography\, drawing\, sound\, and video. Bhargava’s series of eight paired images contemplates cycles of mortality\, while Taruishi documents her family’s visits to ancestral gravestones from 1996 to 2024. Their collaborative piece\, Movement of Water (2024)\, considers land ownership and settler colonialism\, intertwining personal histories to broader narratives of displacement and survival.\nAlongside\, TFN features archival materials from the artists’ dialogues alongside contributions from 20 invited respondents participating in TFN’s In Response program. These letters\, images\, and video clips extend the discussion beyond the gallery walls\, enriching the collective engagement and broadening the interpretive scope of the works. \nPresented at Westbeth Gallery—a space shaped by the legacies of pioneering women artists such as Diane Arbus\, Shigeko Kubota\, Elizabeth Murray\, Lorraine O’Grady\, and Hannah Wilke–TFN unfolds as a dialogue bridging past and present. Weaving together diverse artistic practices\, the exhibition considers how stories endure\, shift\, and take on new meanings over time. In this ongoing exchange\, art becomes an act of remembrance and transformation—reclaiming histories\, bridging distances\, and offering a space where personal and collective narratives continue to evolve. \nJiyeon Paik is an independent curator whose research concerns contemporary representations of race\, gender\, and aging with a particular focus on issues of marginalization\, and the body in art by women and artists of color. Paik has worked with non-profit art organizations and commercial galleries such as Gallery Hyundai\, New York; DOOSAN Gallery New York; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Boston Center for the Arts; Arario Museum in SPACE\, Seoul; Art Sonje Center\, Seoul\, among others. Paik is the founder and director of episode\, a gallery in Brooklyn\, NY. Her curatorial projects include From This Blanket (Print Center New York\, 2024)\, The Faraway Nearby (A.I.R. Gallery\, 2024)\, Detaching (Parenthesis) (DOOSAN Gallery New York\, 2018)\, Seeing and Being Seen (La MaMa Galleria\, 2017)\, Between the Lines: Korean Contemporary Art Since 1970 (Arario Gallery\, 2014)\, and The Room\, Hyungsik Kim: Distortion (Total Museum\, 2014). \nKyoung eun Kang is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York\, originally from South Korea. Her practice spans performance\, video\, drawing\, photography\, installation\, text\, and sound. Central to her work is the exploration of geographical and cultural identity\, alongside universal human themes like affection and connection. Her work contemplates the significance of forging and nurturing human bonds in an ever-evolving world. Kang’s work has been exhibited internationally and across the United States in galleries and museums\, including: A.I.R. Gallery; Collar Works; NURTUREart; BRIC Project Room; and the ISCP project space in New York; the Korean Cultural Center in Washington\, D.C.; the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery in Australia; and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Korea. Kang has received residencies and fellowships at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, Smack Mellon\, the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency\, BRIC Media Arts\, the NARS Foundation\, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts\, the LES Studio Program\, ISCP\, the New York Foundation for the Arts\, among others. Kang received both a BFA and MFA in painting from Hong-ik University in Seoul\, South Korea\, as well as an MFA from Parsons School of Design in New York. \nKazumi Tanaka graduated from Osaka University in 1985 and moved to New York in 1987\, studying sculpture at the New York Studio School until 1990. A recipient of a 2017 Tiffany Foundation Grant and a 2023 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant. Tanaka is preparing new work for Believers: Artists and Shakers\, opening in February 2025 at the ICA Boston\, MA. She has participated in notable residencies including: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1990) and McDowell (2013). Tanaka exhibits at museums and galleries internationally including Fridman Gallery\, Beacon\, NY (2022\, solo); Civetella Ranieri for the Venice Biennale\, Italy (2019); Kunming Art Biennale\, Yunnan Art Museum\, Yunnan\, China (2018); Miyauchi Foundation\, Hiroshima\, Japan (2015); Fabric Workshop and Museum\, Philadelphia\, PA (2011\, solo); the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum\, Ridgefield\, CT (2002); the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art\, Portland\, MA (1997); the New Museum of Contemporary Art\, New York\, NY (1996 & 1993 solo); and Kent Gallery\, New York\, NY (1995\, solo). \nJayoung Yoon earned a BFA from Hongik University\, Seoul\, Korea\, and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art\, Bloomfield Hills\, MI. She has participated in exhibitions at The Bronx Museum of the Arts\, Bronx\, NY; San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles\, San Jose\, CA; Contemporary Craft\, Pittsburgh\, PA; Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art\, Peekskill\, NY; New Bedford Art Museum\, New Bedford\, MA\, and Here Arts Center\, New York\, NY among others. Yoon was the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Fellowship\, the BRIC Media Arts Fellowship\, and the Franklin Furnace Fund. She has attended residencies at MacDowell\, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, Millay Arts\, Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, and Sculpture Space among others. Her work has been featured in various publications\, including The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Hyperallergic\, Surface Design Journal\, and Fiber Art Now. Yoon currently lives and works in Beacon\, NY. \nsooim lee moved to New York in 1981\, where she continues to live and work. She holds a B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Painting from Hong-Ik University in Seoul (1976 and 1978\, respectively) and an M.A. in Printmaking from New York University (1984). Her recent projects include the performance “Calling Back\, Calling Forward\, From This Blanket” at the Print Center\, New York\, NY (2024)\, and the solo exhibition sooim lee: Across Time and Place” at Art Projects International\, New York (2017). lee has also participated in numerous group exhibitions\, including “30 Years: Art Projects International” (2023)\, “Color as Space” (2022)\, “Paper and Process 3” (2021)\, “New Works” (2019)\, “Summer Selections” (2018 and 2014)\, “Marking 2” (2016)\, “Curate NYC” at Rush Arts Gallery\, NY (2013)\, “Intersecting Lines” (2012)\, “911 Arts: A Decade Later” at Commons Gallery\, New York University (2011)\, “Absence” at Queens Museum of Art: Partnership Gallery\, NY (2010)\, and “Irrelevant” at Arario Gallery\, NY (2010). \nXinyi Liu works with mulberry paper and disposable wipes\, which resonate with the thin and silky quality of human skin. She creates works that metaphorically mimic the processes of treating wounds to heal. Through her “medical” manipulation\, they become her “second skin.” Like a doctor\, she does surgeries for her work. She received her BA and BFA from Cornell University and her MFA from Columbia University. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University and Syracuse University. The artist’s work has been exhibited at A.I.R. Gallery\, New York\, NY; ChaShaMa\, New York\, NY; YveYANG Gallery\, New York\, NY; Visual Arts Center\, Nantucket\, MA; Salón Acme\, Mexico; Lenfest Center for the Arts\, New York\, NY; Half Gallery\, New York\, NY; CAFA Art Museum\, Beijing; CAA Art Museum\, Hangzhou; China Printmaking Museum\, Shenzhen; EDA Art Space\, Shenzhen; Olive Tjaden Gallery\, Ithaca\, NY; John Hartell Gallery\, Ithaca\, NY; Mann Library Gallery\, Ithaca\, NY; Palazzo Santacroce\, Rome; Euroasian Art Gallery\, Paris; Jugendkunstschule Pankow\, Berlin. \nJamie Ho is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Tallahassee\, FL. Her art practice engages with GIFs\, photography\, new media\, and sculpture to investigate the long-term impact of assimilation and cultural bereavement through references to ancestral Chinese traditions and artifacts. Her work troubles the history of public spectacle and display of Chinese American women\, using performance and lighting studio to challenge societal expectations of gender roles and performance. She received her MFA at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and her BFA from the University of New Mexico. Ho’s work has been exhibited nationally at Houston Center for Photography (TX)\, ChaShaMa (New York\, New York)\, Candela Books + Gallery (Richmond\, VA)\, Arts + Literature Laboratory (Madison\, WI)\, and more. She has been included in the 2023 Silver List\, was a 2021 Critical Mass Finalist and was awarded the 40th Center Annual Beth Block Honorarium by Houston Center for Photography. She was awarded residencies at ACRE Residency and Vermont Studio Center. She is an Assistant Professor of Photography + Moving Image at Florida State University. \nJunli Song grew up in Chicago\, but lived abroad from 2012-2018 in South Korea\, England\, Italy\, and South Africa. Her studies are similarly widespread: she originally majored in economics and international development at the University of Chicago and the University of Oxford\, respectively\, before returning to the creative path. She completed her MFA at the University of Arkansas with a concentration in printmaking\, and is currently the Grant Wood fellow in printmaking and visiting professor at the University of Iowa. As an artist and storyteller\, she works across a range of media from printmaking and painting to sculpture and animation to explore imagined worlds and personal mythologies. As a Chinese American woman\, she has undertaken the project of world-building as a way to create a space where she belongs\, and to make sense of the complex\, often contradictory\, realities of existing between cultures. Centering around a female re-imagining of the mythological headless deity\, Xingtian\, as a symbol of resistance\, the world created within these images exists as an imaginary realm where the liminal becomes a space of alternative existence. Drawing upon the fantasy and continual self-(re)invention inherent within diasporic societies\, her work reveals the fluid nature of identity as inherited stories and traditions continually evolve. \nLipika Bhargava is a multi-media artist working across ceramics\, painting\,\nsculpture\, video and performance. She is currently an AICAD fellow at Pratt Institute. She\ncompleted her MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design\, New York. Her practice is\nprocess-oriented and performative in mark-making drawing from her background in Dance\n(Indian classical and contemporary). Her work oscillates between personal-political and\nreality-fiction. In her work\, she explores different themes of sexuality\, death\, love\, identity\, fear\,\nand political satire. \nNaho Taruishi lives and works in Brooklyn\, NY. Her work has been shown both locally and abroad including at episode gallery\, Planthouse Gallery\, The Drawing Center in New York\, NY as well as shows at Rochester Institute of Technology\, NY\, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum\, TX among others. Her publication by Vincent FitzGerald & Co. is held in various institutional collections including the Library of Congress\, New York Public Library\, Harvard University\, and Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Taruishi has been awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. She also has received fellowships from The Drawing Center\, the MacDowell Colony\, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/the-faraway-nearby-at-westbeth-gallery/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/THE-FARAWAY-NEARBYi.png GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241123T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241228T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T130522 CREATED:20241106T040600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241230T161145Z UID:10000676-1732366800-1735408800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Visual Artists Winter Show 2024 DESCRIPTION:Westbeth Gallery is OPEN on Thanksgiving Day \nShow Dates: Nov 23 – Dec 28\, 2024\nWed- Sun 1pm – 6pm \nCelebrated the recent work of of 100 Westbeth Visual Artists in photography\, fine art prints\, sculpture\, multi-media\, painting\, and installation. \nPhotos of Opening Night\nClick image to start slide show URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-visual-artists-winter-show-2024/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/WinterShow-SUE-THISEdited2_Online_1080_2024.jpg GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240927T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T130522 CREATED:20240813T020007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241022T235326Z UID:10000643-1727442000-1729447200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:UP CLOSE FROM AFAR Group Exhibition. Plus newly published review DESCRIPTION:THE FRONT ROW CENTER REVIEW\nHolli Harms Oct 2024\nExcerpt\n“The Visual Arts Chair/Gallery directors are artists themselves. Valérie Hallier is the current\nVisual Arts Chair/Gallery director and she has curated an art exhibit this Fall at Westbeth\nGallery that is awe-inspiring. Entitled “Up Close From Afar\,” it is masterful. It is eclectic\,\nlustrous\, thought provoking\, and an eye-catching exhibit of art in multiple constructs. Sculptures\nusing fabric and taxidermy\, paintings with elaborate colors and textures and saturated strokes of\nblack and white hanging by what can only be described as a spider’s web.” \nRead the entire review HERE \nClick to enlarge \nSeptember 27 – October 20\, 2024\nCurated by Valérie Hallier \nFeaturing artists:\nKhaila Batts\, Kelly Boehmer\, Nell Breyer\, Sandra\nCavanagh\, Marie-Chloé Duval\, Rina Dweck\,\nPauline Galiana\, Allan Gorman\, Honglei Li\nAlex W. Rader \nArtist Reception and Opening: Friday\, September 27\,\n2024\, 6pm-8pm \nWestbeth Gallery is pleased to present this group exhibition featuring selected artists from our 2024 open call and curated by Valérie Hallier\, Westbeth current Visual Arts Chair and Gallery Director. \nThe group show explores eclectic artistic perspectives on our contemporary moment in the West. \nThrough an array of mediums\, including drawing\, painting\, sculpture and installation\, artists from Asia\, Europe and from within the United States\, offer detailed views\, up close and afar\, from their multicultural perspectives on contemporary existentialism. \nKhaila Batts: ”In the realm of contemporary existentialism\, my work delves into the individual’s quest for meaning and authenticity\, navigating the complexities of existence and identity within the modern context.” \nKelly Boehmer: “I sew soft sculptures that portray a tragic sense of humor\, celebrating the hidden beauty I find in anxieties. I find humor in my struggles with social anxiety\, and changes in my body\, all my attempts to be [comfortable in my own skin]. While the imagery is often grotesque\, the flayed and molting creatures symbolize positive change\, growth\, and transformation.” \nNell Breyer: Nell Breyer is an artist working at the intersection of media\, movement and the public domain. She uses mark-making and the moving body to explore how we perceive and understand human movement’s delineation of shared space and calibration of place. \nSandra Cavanagh: Interested in the pairing of form and message\, and formal variations on a theme\, I sustain a figurative focus in reaction to current and historical narratives including my own. Recent global events have led me to considerations of mortality and loss of innocence in cross generational stories\, the usefulness of art’s centuries old regard of myth\, foundational stereotypes and the mundane occurrence of violence. \nMarie Chloé Duval: My interest in painting is based on a desire to translate my analysis and interpretation of society\, building on my academic background studying social issues. By deliberately obstructing some elements and removing others\, I leave space for interpretation\, suggesting the confusion of the perceptual state we live in\, inviting the observers to question their role in the world. Rina Dweck: Rina AC Dweck makes work riddled with juxtapositions. Organic next to synthetic\, readymade alongside handmade\, real vs. fake\, past beside present. Her use of hair as a material signifier tethers her to explorations on identity\, femininity\, religion\, and freedom. Born and bred in New York City\, and raised in an immigrant community\, Dweck grew up surrounded by lively histories and intense contrast. This upbringing embedded a propensity toward reimagining\, and the belief in the beauty of difference as a source of possibility. \nPauline Galiana: My work blends noble and mundane\, materials\, deconstructing and reconstructing them into hybrid forms. I waste nothing. My processes are both obsessive and meditative\, combining meticulous planning and patient execution. My formal compositions\, often featuring rigorous grids\, reflect instinctive states of mind and reveal meaning through unexpected encounters and the beauty of entropy. \nAllan Gorman: ”I’m drawn to the built environment—the spaces we construct\, the boundaries we navigate\, and the edges where materials and light converge. There’s a mystery and escapism in my world that both obstructs and reflects nature\, and in my art I attempt to capture the audacity and ambition of these spaces. I’m fascinated by traces of human evidence left behind in hallways\, stairwells\, and empty offices.” \nHonglei Li: “As Chinese immigrant artists\, we strive to create artwork that can make a strong voice for the Asian immigrant community. Our experience as immigrants who struggled at the bottom of American society has informed and shaped our art\, which focuses on human suffering and injustice in societies. “ \nAlex W. Rader: As a third culture individual\, discovering the language of painting has been a vital component in her artistic development. Today\, she uses painting as a means of expressing the ineffable anxieties around womanhood. The role of representational painting proves to be an effective tool to evoke care\, devotion\, and time. With this\, the theme of home has entered her work\, providing new combinations of objects in uneasy domestic interiors. \nContact: Valérie Hallier (718) 414 9889 – westbethgallery@gmail.com – vhallier@gmail.com \nGallery hours: Wednesday through Sunday\, 1pm–6pm and by appointment \nClosing Events/ Artists talks: Saturday October 19 & Sunday October 20th during Westbeth Open House events. \nWestbeth Gallery\, 55 Bethune Street\, New York\, NY 10014 www.westbeth.org \nOPENING NIGHT Sept 27\, 2024\nClick image to start slideshow. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/up-close-from-afar-group-exhibition/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/UP-CLOSE-WEB-CORRECTED_SQ4Insta-copy.jpg GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240305 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240328 DTSTAMP:20260423T130522 CREATED:20240305T170026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240402T001520Z UID:10000481-1709596800-1711583999@westbeth.org SUMMARY:WESTZINE Inaugural Issue Open Call DESCRIPTION:click to enlarge \nDownload the WESTZINE Open Call PDF WESTZINE URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westzine-quarterly/ LOCATION:Online and Info at Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/WESTZINE_flyer_OpenCall_online1080.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR