BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Westbeth - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD 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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260304T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260322T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140453 CREATED:20260117T195430Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260331T223709Z UID:10000947-1772611200-1774198800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Re-View\, Re-New Re-Imagining Past Work Group Show DESCRIPTION:CLOSING WEEKEND\nMarch 19 – 222\, 2026 1pm – 6pm \nImages from the Show\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 \nMarch 4– March 22\, 2026 \nAn exhibition of seven artists reimagining past work to create new imagery\nCurated by Karen Bell \nWestbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune Street\, New York\, NY 10014\nGallery Hours: Wednesday–Sunday\, 1:00–6:00 PM\, and by appointment \nOpening Reception: Thursday\, March 5\, 2026 | 5:00–8:00 PM \nWestbeth Gallery presents Re-View\, Re-New\, a group exhibition featuring seven accomplished women artists: Karen Bell\, Petey Brown\, Mary Frank\, Christina Hutchings\, Elizabeth Lide\, Maria Pia Marrella\, and Ellen Wallenstein. \nWorking across mixed media\, oil painting\, fiber\, collage\, and photography\, the artists revisit and transform earlier work to generate new imagery that spans abstraction\, realism\, and fantasy. \nKaren Bell physically alters earlier photographs through tearing\, layering\, diptychs\, and the introduction of natural elements.\nPetey Brown paints over earlier canvases\, allowing unexpected fragments to remain visible and guide new compositions inspired by daily observation.\nMary Frank recombines fragments from her extensive archive to construct fresh visual narratives.\nElizabeth Lide revisits drawings and objects from installations created over a 45-year period\, incorporating family materials to explore shifting histories and meanings.\nChristina Hutchings reconstructs previously framed works using painted papers and architectural materials\, reflecting life on an island.\nMaria Pia Marrella returns to earlier paintings to reengage her studio practice\, creating assemblages informed by her interest in cultural\, political and environmental moments.\nEllen Wallenstein\, a photographer and educator\, began making daily cloth cyanotypes following major life disruptions. Incorporating personal objects\, plant life\, and family heirlooms\, these works evolved into collaborative quilts with Texas textile artist Kathe Williams\, reflecting resilience and healing. \nPress Inquiries:\nKaren Bell – KLBphoto@gmail.com 917-359-6109 \nKaren Bell is a New York–based artist who has exhibited widely throughout New York and across the United States. \nPhoto: Reflection/Versailles\, Karen Bell URL:https://westbeth.org/event/re-view-re-new-re-imagining-past-work-group-show/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Re-View-Re-New-Sq.png GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260206T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140453 CREATED:20251223T043416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260223T185033Z UID:10000934-1770382800-1771783200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Breathe New York Artists Circle Exhibit. Video Interviews with Two Artists \, Plus see show online. DESCRIPTION:MARIANNE BARCELLONA – ABOUT THE WORK\na To activtate subtitles click on the double “cc box” at the bottom of the screen \n \nGWYNETH LEECH – ABOUT THE WORK\nTo activate subtitles click on the double “cc box” at the bottom of the screen \n\n \n  \nCHECK OUT THE SHOW ONLINE AT NEW YORK  ARTISTS CIRCLE HERE. But always better in person too! \nAn Exhibition by the New York Artists Circle\nCurated by Hayley Ferber • Assistant Curator Kristin Reed\nFebruary 6–22\, 2026 \nWestbeth Gallery\n155 Bank Street\n(Enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nOpening Reception • Friday\, February 6\, 5–8 PM \nIn a world that feels increasingly overstimulated and demanding\, Breathe offers a space for serenity. Featuring work by members of the New York Artists Circle\, the exhibition explores breath not only as a fundamental human necessity\, but as an invitation to pause\, recenter and find calm. The artists approach this theme from multiple perspectives. Some focus on the physical act of breathing—its rhythm\, vulnerability\, and sustaining force—while others employ breath as a metaphor for stillness\, resilience\, clarity\, and the act of claiming space in an often overwhelming world. Together\, these works invite viewers to step away from the noise\, take a deep breath\, and reconnect with a sense of peace\, presence\, and inner balance. \nBreathe will be presented both in person at Westbeth Gallery and online on the New York Artists Circle website.\nThe in-person exhibition includes an opening reception and a public artist talk. \nFeatured Artists: Anne Finkelstein • Avani Patel • Barbara Lubliner • Barbara Slitkin • Barbara Swanson Sherman •Beth Barry • Cade Pemberton • Carol Paik • Cecilia André • Charles Seplowin • Cheryl Aden • Christina Maile •Colleen Deery • D Ardelean • Danielle Warren • Darcy Alison Spitz • David Alon Friedman • Diana Jensen • Eileen Hoffman • Eleanor Goldstein • Elisa Decker • Ellen Alt • Emily Barnett • Fran Beallor Gabriela Gasparini Bornstein •Gale Rothstein • Gosha Karpowicz • Laurey Bennet-Levy Gwyneth Leech • Helaine Soller • Jacqueline Sferra • RadaJanet Goldner • Janet Morgan • Janice McDonnell • January Yoon Cho • Joanne Steinhardt • Jocelyn Benford •Joyce Raimondo Judith Kruger • Kristin Reed • Linda Ganjian • Linda Stillman • Linda Turner • Lois Bender • Lori Horowitz • Lynne Friedman • Marianne Barcellona • Meenal Raghava • Nicole Cooper • Pearl Rosen Golden • RoniSherman Ramos • Ryan Bauer-Walsh • Sandra Taggart Stephen Cox • Susan Grucci • SuZen • Syma • Tiziana Mazzioto • Wendy L. Moss • Yvonne Lamar-Rogers \nExhibition Details: \nLocation: Westbeth Gallery\, 55 Bethune St (Main entrance to Westbeth) \, New York\, NY 10014\nGallery Hours: Wednesday to Sunday 1–6 pm\nDates: February 6–22\, 2026\nOpening Reception: Friday\, February 6\, 5–8 PM\nArtist Talk and Closing Reception: Sunday February 22\, 3-5pm \nOnline Exhibition:https://nyartistscircle.com \nMedia Contact: Janice McDonnell janice@janicemcdonnell.com URL:https://westbeth.org/event/breathe-new-york-artists-circle-exhibit/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Breathe_1080_x_1080.png GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260107T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260125T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140453 CREATED:20251205T230037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T015642Z UID:10000923-1767790800-1769360400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Primeval Ground [deep\, unfathomable] DESCRIPTION:Elisabeth Condon “Big Feeling” \nTEN ARTISTS EXPLORE THE POWER OF MONOCHROME IN “PRIMEVAL GROUND [DEEP\, UNFATHOMABLE].”\nWESTBETH GALLERY | 55 BETHUNE STREET\, NYC \nJAN 7-25\, 2026 \nABOUT THE WORK: ELISABETH CONDON Click CC button at bottom of video to activate closed captions. \n\n \n ABOUT THE WORK; MARISA TESAURO Click CC button at bottom of video to activate closed captions.\n  \n\n\nSELECTED IMAGES FROM SHOW Click thumbnail to start slide show\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  \nGroup Exhibition Curated by New York-based artist Susan Rowe Harrison Features Diverse Media Spanning Photography\, Weaving\, Installation\, Drawing\, Painting\, Sculpture\, and Performance. \nNEW YORK\, NY – From January 7 to January 25\, 2026\, Westbeth Gallery presents Primeval Ground [deep\, unfathomable]: A Show of Monochrome and Low-Chrome Artworks curated by New York-based artist Susan Rowe Harrison. \nThe exhibition brings together ten remarkable artists—Caroline Burton\, Karin Campbell\, Elizabeth Castagna\, Marcy Chevali\, Elisabeth Condon\, Cadence Giersbach\, Susan Rowe Harrison\, Naomi Livia\, Stacy Mehrfar\, and Marisa Tesauro—whose practices span photography\, weaving\, installation\, drawing\, painting\, sculpture\, cut paper\, video\, and participatory drawing. \n“As a colorist\, I found myself working in monochrome but thinking of it as color\,” says Harrison. “I wanted to understand why artists make this choice—does color get in the way? Is reduction an act of austerity\, a reflection on the state of the world\, mystery\, or simply what the work demands? The best way to explore this was to reach out and collaborate.” \nThe title “Primeval Ground” comes from Paul Klee\, who is quoted as saying: “We do not have to understand the black\, it is the primeval ground.” The title recalls the mysterious core of an artwork\, a depth we barely understand. From the earliest drawings made with charred sticks on cave walls to contemporary relevance\, the featured artists delve into the philosophical\, aesthetic\, and emotional depths of working with color restraint through monochrome and low-chrome palettes. The exhibition demonstrates how limitation becomes a powerful vehicle of expression\, focus\, and innovation. \nFollow the exhibit on IG: @primeval_ground. \nEXHIBITION EVENTS: \nOpening Reception\nThursday\, January 8\, 2026\, 6:30-8:30 PM \nPanel Discussion with Artist and Writer Etty Yaniv of Art Spiel\nThursday\, January 15\, 2026\, 6:30 PM \nBody-led Movement Drawing Workshop with Artist Elizabeth Castagna\nSaturday\, January 24\, 2026\, 3:00 PM\n*Spots are limited. Please RSVP to participate at primevalground@gmail.com \nExhibition continues through Sunday\, January 25\, 2026 \nGALLERY INFORMATION:\nWestbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune Street\, corner of Washington Street\nNew York\, NY 10014\nGallery Hours: Wednesday-Sunday\, 1-6 PM and by appointment \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Susan Rowe Harrison at susan@lunule.com or 914-536-7271. \nABOUT THE CURATOR: \nSusan Rowe Harrison is a New York-based artist whose work has been exhibited at Wave Hill\, PS122\, YYZ Artist’s Outlet\, and collected by LinkedIn\, Pfizer\, and the Newberry Library\, among others. This is her second curatorial project. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/primeval-ground-deep-unfathomable/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/primeval-ground.png GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251121T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251228T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140453 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:20251009T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251102T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140453 CREATED:20250912T155036Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251106T132245Z UID:10000832-1760014800-1762102800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Whitney Staff Art Show 2025 Artists At WorkClosing Reception Wed Oct 29\, 2025 DESCRIPTION:WHITNEY MUSEUM HIGHLIGHTS THE TALENTS OF ITS\nSTAFF IN ART SHOW AT Westbeth GALLERY \nClosing Reception : Wednesdy Oct 29\, 2025 6:30pm – 8:30pm \nTo start slideshow\, click image\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\nClick image to enlarge\nOctober 9 – Nov 2\, 2025\nThe Whitney Museum’s annual Staff Art Show is free and open to the public\, and all are welcome! \nWestbeth Gallery\n155 Bank St\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nWednesdays through Sundays from 1 to 6 pm. \nThe Whitney Museum of American Art’s annual Staff Art Show returns this fall with Artists At Work\, on view from October 9 through November 2. The exhibition will feature artworks from the Museum’s talented and creative staff on display at Westbeth Gallery\, just a few blocks away from the Whitney. \nFrom its origins in Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s Greenwich Village studio in 1914 to its relocation to the Meatpacking District in 2015\, the Whitney Museum has always sought to support living artists at critical moments in their careers. Many of the Museum’s staff members\, who make the Museum’s exhibitions\, programs\, publications\, and day-to-day operations possible\, are artists themselves and participate in the annual showcase. \nFor the eighth year\, the Whitney’s Staff Art Show will be held in a public space\, offering staff an opportunity to share their work and deepen connections with one another as well as a wider audience. This year’s exhibition will include the work of over seventy artists\, presenting a wide range of mediums\, including painting\, sculpture\, drawing\, photography\, printmaking\, collage\, and video\, and reflecting the diversity of artistic practice among the Whitney’s talented staff. \n \n\n\nArtists At Work is organized by Katie Fong\, Curatorial Assistant\, and Antonia Pocock\, Curatorial Assistant\, with colleagues from various departments throughout the Museum. \nThe exhibition is free and open to the public at Westbeth Gallery\, 55 Bethune Street Westbeth main entrance) New York\, NY 10014\, \nPARTICIPATING ARTISTS \n\nStephanie Alifano\nAlyssa Andrews\nMax Rose Bell\nNora Bethune\nLouise Brosnan\nReagan Brown\nJason Buccieri\nKatherine Cheairs\nBeatriz Cifuentes\nHeather Cox\nHenry Culpepper\nScott Davis\nKiera Derrig\nAngela Dizon\nSarah Ehtisham\nMariana Flores\nElisa Flynn\nEve Soleil Frohm\nViridiana Garcia Choy\nJohn Anthony Gaudio\nJesse Gelaznik\nNora Gomez-Strauss\nNicole Grullón\n\n\nAbigail Hack\nEli Harrison\nWilliam Hempel\nAraya Henry\nFelicia Huguley\nJunichiro Ishida\nFransheska Jackson\nEmily Jacoby\nJennifer Jhagroo\nDaniel Kingery\nTom Kotik\nMidrene Lamy\nMatthew Larson\nMeredith Lawhead\nZack Lobel\nIris Ward Loughran\nEleanor Lovinsky\nSean MacDonald\nGenevieve Martinez\nJohn Martins\nElissa Medina\nMarek Milde\nMeer Musa\nWilliam Norton\n\n\nJustin Ortiz\nDominic Pereira\nJason Phillips\nAnna Piwowar\nOlivia Previti\nEliza Proctor\nEmma Quaytman\nVictor Rodriguez-Pagan\nJoshua Rosenblatt\nEmily Roz\nTondaliyah Sackiel\nLisa Saunders\nLaura Schwarz\nElisabeth Skjaervold\nNathan Smith\nNeil Smith\nNatalia Sterling\nJosephine Tam\nAdin Tannin\nJoseph Teliha\nDarlene Thevenin\nKhaleiah Vasquez\nCynthia Laureen Vogt\nAlexa Walkovitz\nMaggie Wei\nJonathan Wenur\nJosh Wertheimer\n\n\n\nPRESS CONTACT \nFor press materials and image requests\, please visit our press site at whitney.org/press or\ncontact:\nWhitney Press Office\nwhitney.org/press\n(212) 570-3633\npressoffice@whitney.org \nABOUT THE WHITNEY\nThe Whitney Museum of American Art\, founded in 1930 by the artist and philanthropist Gertrude\nVanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942)\, houses the foremost collection of American art from the\ntwentieth and twenty-first centuries. Mrs. Whitney\, an early and ardent supporter of modern\nAmerican art\, nurtured groundbreaking artists when audiences were still largely preoccupied\nwith the Old Masters. From her vision arose the Whitney Museum of American Art\, which has\nbeen championing the most innovative art of the United States for ninety years. The core of the\nWhitney’s mission is to collect\, preserve\, interpret\, and exhibit American art of our time and\nserve a wide variety of audiences in celebration of the complexity and diversity of art and culture\nin the United States. Through this mission and a steadfast commitment to artists\, the Whitney\nhas long been a powerful force in support of modern and contemporary art and continues to\nhelp define what is innovative and influential in American art today. \nWhitney Museum Land Acknowledgment\nThe Whitney is located in Lenapehoking\, the ancestral homeland of the Lenape. The name\nManhattan comes from their word Mannahatta\, meaning “island of many hills.” The Museum’s\ncurrent site is close to land that was a Lenape fishing and planting site called Sapponckanikan\n(“tobacco field”). The Whitney acknowledges the displacement of this region’s original\ninhabitants and the Lenape diaspora that exists today. \nAs a museum of American art in a city with vital and diverse communities of Indigenous people\,\nthe Whitney recognizes the historical exclusion of Indigenous artists from its collection and\nprogram. The Museum is committed to addressing these erasures and honoring the\nperspectives of Indigenous artists and communities as we work for a more equitable future. To\nread more about the Museum’s Land Acknowledgment\, visit the Museum’s website.\nImage credit:\nWhitney Staff Art Show. Photo courtesy the Whitney Museum URL:https://westbeth.org/event/whitney-staff-art-show-2025-artists-at-work/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Whitney-Staff-show-Sq-2025.png GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250904T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250927T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140453 CREATED:20250806T183557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251002T000124Z UID:10000818-1756972800-1758992400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:iManifest Multi-disciplinary Visual Art Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Artist Olivia Gossett-Cooper speaks about the iManifest Exhibit\n \nArtist Olivia Gossett=Cooper speaks about her piece in the iManifest exhibit\n \nClick on Image to start Slide Show\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\nClick image to enlarge September 4 – September 27\, 2025\nOpening Reception Thursday Sept 4\, 2025 at 6pm – 8pm \nWestbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune Street\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nBringing together UK and US artists at this time of global unrest and uncertainty.\niManifest interrogates the concept of manifestation on many levels\, focusing on multiple dualities which exist on a continuum of nothing-to-something; real-to-fake; physical-to-AI; sub-conscious-to-conscious; sticky floor-to-glass ceiling. To reflect this blurring of percep-tions & boundaries\, many of the works contain dream-like qualities reminiscent of a kind of ‘new surrealism’. \nThis exhibition plays with the ‘existential’ hanging in the air. One American writer of Mark Fraser-Betts’ acquaintance asserted that the universe is currently undergoing a cosmic cycle that is beyond our comprehension. So\, in reflecting the incomprehensible\, what col-lective identity can the artists in this show share? Despite\, or maybe because of the chal-lenges of this shifting landscape\, all of the artists in this show strive to maintain the au-thenticity of their artistic endeavours while remaining playful and inquisitive. \nWe warmly invite you to attend the exhibition. \nJess Parnell (UK)\nhttps://www.instagram.com/jess_parnell_arty/ \nJodi Gerbi (US)\nhttps://www.instagram.com/jodigerbi/ \nKirsty Harris (UK)\nhttps://www.instagram.com/kirsty_harris_art/ \nMark Fraser-Betts (US/UK)\nhttps://www.instagram.com/markfb_studio/ \nOlivia Gossett Cooper (US)\nhttps://www.instagram.com/oliviagossettcooper/ \nPerdita Sinclair (UK)\nhttps://www.instagram.com/perditasinclair/ \nContact: perditasinclair@hotmail.com\nDM https://www.instagram.com/perditasinclair/ \nPoster Image: :”George” by Kristy Harris\, which will be in the show. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/imanifest-multi-disciplinary-visual-art-exhibition/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/wensite_digflyer_Kirsty-Harris_George_Cropped_edited-2.jpg GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250808T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250824T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140453 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:20260430T140453 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:20250604T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250622T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140453 CREATED:20250515T222412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250625T012530Z UID:10000780-1749042000-1750615200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Rutgers in New York: Following the TraceMFA Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nJune 4–23\, 2025\nReception: Saturday June 7\, 6–8pm\nWestbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune St\nNew York\, NY 10014 \n \nVideo of work featured in the show \n \nFrancisco echo Eraso\, Desde abajo\, 2025. Handmade ceramic roof tiles molded after the colonial roofing from abuelito Erlinto’s since-demolished house in Pasto\, Colombia\, and Juanita’s streetside roof tile finds in San Pedro de la Bendita\, Loja\, Ecuador\, bass shakers\, amplifier\, and wood cross\, 70 x 70 x 35 inches. Photo: María del Mar Hernández \nFeaturing work by Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo\, Ian Byers-Gamber\, Francisco echo Eraso\, Harley Hollenstein\, Quinn Isaacs\, Dan Lucal\, Saba N. Maheen\, John de Leon Martin\, Ariana Martinez\, Emily Drew Miller\, Pachi\, Rachel Mulvihill\, JaLeel Marques Porcha\, Alisa Sikelianos-Carter\, Natalie Romero\, Johnathan Allen Wilborn\, Feyaz Yusuff \n \nHow might we conceive of the role of the artist\, particularly in times of crisis? Can we\, in seriousness\, claim the aesthetic ought to not be troubled by the political? Is the aspiration or demand to remain untroubled by the weight of the work of art simply an irresponsible desire? \nFollowing the Trace\, the exhibition of seventeen artists newly emerging from the Rutgers MFA program\, attends to the ambivalences contained within these questions and their perpetually unresolved answers. Varying in form and affective orientation\, the artists individually and collectively contend with internal and external experience\, political events\, infrastructural critiques\, and natural phenomena as ethical-aesthetic reflections of the world around them. \nIf we understand aesthetic production—the painting\, the photograph\, the sculpture\, the performance\, the video—as amalgams and distillations of social-cultural and material forces\, then the work of art is a genealogy. Extending a multi-directional referential constellation into the past\, present\, and future\, the work of art becomes a projection: a communicative site through which artist and audience negotiate meaning\, history\, and desire.\nThe artist is equally excavator and creator: replying to the ghostly haunting\, recalling the reverberant echo\, formulating the fabulation. The back-and-forth undulation of the tide guides a multivalency of significance and interpretation\, revealing the dreamscapes and ways of being in the world that the work of art offers as existential possibility. \nCurated by Zoé Samudzi \nAbout the department: The Department of Art & Design at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts seeks to cultivate a diverse community that values visual literacy\, critical dialogue\, experimentation\, and the skills necessary for sustaining a creative life as artists and designers. Central to its vision is engaging in interdisciplinary research and embarking on collaborations within Rutgers and beyond\, leaving an imprint on the global arenas of contemporary art and design. Studio arts training is offered in design\, drawing\, media\, painting\, photography\, print\, and sculpture. The department offers five degree programs: a bachelor of arts\, a bachelor of fine arts in both visual arts and design\, and a master of fine arts in both visual arts and design\, as well as a minor in art. Mason Gross Galleries\, a 4\,200-square-foot space\, showcases up to 10 student exhibitions per year—all free and open to the public. \nwww.masongross.rutgers.edu\nmasongrossgalleries.rutgers.edu\nInstagram \nInquiries: Rich Siggillino\, Gallery Coordinator\, at res241 [at] mgsa.rutgers.edu URL:https://westbeth.org/event/rutgers-in-new-york-following-the-trace/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Rutgers-revised-SQ-Social-Post-1080by1080_Edits-4-1.jpg GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250405T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250420T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140453 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:20260430T140453 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:20250205T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250223T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140453 CREATED:20250108T225701Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250226T184502Z UID:10000709-1738742400-1740330000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Future Proof : Group show that examines intergenerational and career-long dedication to abstract art DESCRIPTION:The New Criterion: Critics Notebook\nFebruary 2025\nFuture Proof\,” at Westbeth Gallery\, New York (through February 23): Founded in 1936\, the American Abstract Artists association continues to attract artist-members of high quality. “Future Proof” is an exhibition of seventeen of them\, now on view at Westbeth Gallery in the West Village. The show ranges from the biomorphic transfers of Stephen Maine to the casual geometries of Jason Stopa\, the oceanic currents of Joanne Freeman to the crystalline edges of Sonita Singwi. Curated by Jared Linge\, the colorful exhibition reveals abstraction’s continued vitality. —JP\nThe New Criterion \nInstallation Shots\nClick 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 \nVideo of Exhibition Feb 8\, 2025\n \nClick to enlarge \nFebruary 5 – 23\, 2025\nOpening reception Wednesday February 5th\, 6-9p \nWestbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune Street\, New York\, NY 10014\nGallery hours: Wed – Sun\, 1 – 6p \nFeatured Artists: Jeffrey Bishop\, Jacob Cartwright\, Joanne Freeman\, Lynne Harlow\, Carl E.\nHazelwood\, Pinkney Herbert\, Jane Logemann\, Stephen Maine\, Russell Maltz\, Tom McGlynn\,\nManfred Mohr\, Lisa E. Nanni\, Jim Osman\, Sonita Singwi\, Melissa Staiger\, Jason Stopa\, and Li\nTrincere \n“Art has political consequences\, which is to say\, it reorganizes society and creates\nconstituencies of people around it.” – Dave Hickey \nFuture Proof is a group show curated by Jared Linge for American Abstract Artists\, featuring 17\nof the group’s members. \nThis exhibition examines the way that longevity in art can meaningfully\nshape communities and cultural landscapes over time. Here\, “longevity” refers to the ability of\nart to endure\, develop\, and proliferate on its own terms\, regardless of trends and\ncircumstances. In an industry where social media and the art market reduce discourse to an\nendless succession of changing fashions\, Future Proof positions communities of career-long\npractices as an alternative model. In this context\, longevity is achieved both in open systems of\nmaking\, and an intergenerational collaborative spirit. \nThese seventeen artists define abstraction in our present day by exploring a range of material\,\nformal\, and methodological approaches. Works have been selected with an eye towards range\nand contrast: from more coolly conceived formal viewpoints to the immediacy of space and raw\nmaterials. With a knowledge of abstraction’s history and the potential reinterpretation of its\nvariables\, these artists collectively champion the legacy of non-objective art as a vehicle for\nembodying critical thought. \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 \nAAA was founded in NYC in 1936 to counter critical neglect of abstract art made in the United\nStates\, and is one of the world’s longest continually active artist organizations. Westbeth Artists\nHousing in New York City is the world’s largest artists’ residence community. Westbeth and AAA\nshare a common commitment to the lifelong fostering of artistic community\, making Westbeth\nGallery the ideal location for this exhibition. \nJared Linge (b. 1985) received a classical education in Drawing & Painting and Art History at\nthe Laguna College of Art and Design. After eight years of experience working in contemporary\nart on both coasts\, he founded High Noon in New York’s Lower East Side in 2017 with an\ninterest in exhibiting under-represented artists with a gallery model that is collaborative and\nartist-centered. He has curated over 70 exhibitions throughout his career\, focusing on work that\nis grounded in art historical context with an emphasis on craft and hybrid practices. In the fall of\n2024\, the gallery moved to a new permanent location in New York’s TriBeCa neighborhood. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/future-proof-group-show-that-examines-intergenerational-and-career-long-dedication-to-abstract-art/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Future-Proof_digital.jpg GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250110T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250126T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140453 CREATED:20241113T003757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250129T222242Z UID:10000693-1736496000-1737910800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:PAIRIDAĒZA Group Show An exploration of the paradise garden's utopian ideal. DESCRIPTION:Last Weekend – Closes Sunday Jan 26\, 2025\n\nVideo features the work of Krista Gay\, Ali Kaeini\, Kitty Rauth\, Sam Sherman\, and Sasha Fishman. \nClick on image to start slide show.\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 \nOpens Friday January 10\, 2025 6pm – 8pm \nShow dates: January 11 – Janury 26\, 2025 \nWestbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune Street\nNew York\,NY\nGallery Hours: Wed – Sun 1pm – 6pm \nWestbeth Gallery is pleased to present Pairidaēza\,a group exhibition featuring works by Sam Sherman\, Krista Gay\, Ali Kaeini\, Sasha Fishman\, Kate Stone\, Kitty Rauth\, and Charlie Manion. \nCurated by Celeste del Valle. \nConjuring imaginations of absentminded leisure\, luxury\, and eternal life\, the mythic concept\nof paradise is both a primeval place of origin and an imminent\, realizable future promised to\nthe virtuous few. Even in our “secularism\,” this notion continues to occupy a significant\nplace in our collective consciousness. \nThe word “paradise” can be traced through Latin and Greek to a relative of the Iranian\nlanguage Avestan\, the scriptural language of Zoroastrianism. Its near-Avestan root words\nshape the compound word Pairidaēza\, which translates as “to make or form a wall” and\n“enclosed garden.” \nIn his description of Paul Klee’s 1920 monoprint Angelus Novus\, Walter Benjamin wrote of\nthe angel of history: a creature facing backward towards the wreckage of the past\, forcibly\npropelled into the future by “a storm blowing from Paradise\,” which has “caught in his\nwings with such violence that [he] can no longer close them\,” despite the angel’s wish to\n“stay\, awaken the dead\, and make whole what has been smashed.”\nTaking Benjamin’s description of the storm in paradise as a cynosure\, this exhibition\nchallenges the paradise garden’s utopian ideal with questions its etymology implies: who is\nthe garden for? For what function is the wall designed? At what cost is the garden\nmaintained? \nThe artists brought together in this exhibition explore the tensions and questions inherent to\nthe paradise garden through varied media\, methods\, and narratives. Emblems of ritualism\nare interrupted and defanged\, exposing cracks in the walls where a new telos may emerge.\n– Celeste del Valle \nPlease join us for the opening reception of PAIRIDAĒZA on January 10\, 2025\, from 6-8\nPM. The exhibition will be open to the public Wednesday through Sunday\, 1-6 PM from\nJanuary 11 through January 26\, 2025. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-gallery-presents-pairidaeza-group-show-an-exploration-of-the-oparadise-gardens-utopian-ideal/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PAIRIDAEZA-FINAL_Digital.jpg GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241123T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241228T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140453 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;VALUE=DATE:20241025 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241111 DTSTAMP:20260430T140453 CREATED:20240810T121212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241230T163031Z UID:10000580-1729814400-1731283199@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Global Art Project: CrossingBorders We Are All Immigrants DESCRIPTION:NEW PHOTOS OF EXHIBITON\nClick 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\nClick o enlarge \nOctober 25th -November 10th\, 2024\nOpening Reception\nFriday October 25th 6-8pm \nWestbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune Street at Washington\nNew York City \nExhibition Hours\nWednesday – Sunday\n1-6pm and by appointment\n\nCurators: Carl Heyward\, Akiko Suzuki\, Mikel Frank\, Joanne Rogers \n \n Inspirational 89 Art Magazine features a profusely illustrated article on the exhibition. GLOBAL ART BORDERS #inspirational 89 – GAP feature \n \nClick to enlarge \nCrossingBorders: WE ARE ALL IMMIGRANTS\nAn exhibition of works by members of Global Art Project\, an international multimedia collaborative collective with over 90 members operating in 19 different countries.\nExhibition Concept: \nThe Borders are wide\, various\, concrete and philosophical\, offering an illusion of safety and definitive organization of reality buttressed by or colliding with the shifts in perception\, power alignments\, cultural imperatives and agendas at play at any given moment both on the international and the personal\, subjective stage.\nBorders as a theme not defined\, but implied. The obvious way to look at Borders is as it relates to geographic demarcation and via socio-political implications\,however\, the artists in this exhibition take it one step further examining Borders that confound and limit us personally; Borders to be psychologically challenged\, broken through and/or accepted.\nCrossingBorders: WE ARE ALL IMMIGRANTS poses the question\, “Where can we find a safe haven?”\nWith immigration looming large as a hot button item politically\, polarizing as well as unifying\, this exhibition will touch demonstrate the many ways artists create works that deal with this question. From the lack of compassion to international and jurisdictional walls being built\, the exhibiting artists dive deeply into depictions of ethnocentric responses and unreasonable blockages to the ever present desperation of immigrants trying to find a home/country they can feel safe in when they do not feel safe in their own. \nIn photographs\, paintings\, monumental sculptures\, installations and performance CrossingBorders offers insight into concerns ranging from gender transformation\, the Atlantic slave trade\, the DNA of consolodation as well as the immigrant at the border\, on the shore welcomed or washed out.\nThe Westbeth exhibition is curated by artist Carl Heyward and GAP founding member Akiko Suzuki. \nClick to enlarge \n*CrossingBorders travels to Nine Eighteen Nine Studio Gallery in Charlotte\, NC with artist Mikel Frank and VAPA co-founder and director of the gallery Joanne Rogers joining the curatorial team November 16\, 2024 -January 4th\, 2025.*\n“What Borders are you willing to cross?”\nAdditional info/photos/interviews upon request: \nartspeak2020@yahoo.com\nGLOBAL ART PROJECT \nhttps://www.instagram.com/globalartproject/\nhttps://globartproject.wixsite.com/globalartproject-art\nShow Preview\nClick image for slide show URL:https://westbeth.org/event/global-art-project-presents-crossing-borders-we-are-all-immigrants/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:Current,past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GLOBAL-SQ-ART-PROJET-SIGN-CROSSING-FLYER-LOGO-BORDERS_Mesa-de-trabajo-1-copia-2.jpg GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240927T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140453 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;TZID=America/New_York:20240828T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240915T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140453 CREATED:20240829T024327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T223532Z UID:10000572-1724850000-1726423200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Art Lives Here: Collecting An Art Fair At Westbeth Gallery DESCRIPTION:Selected Photos from the Show\nClick image to start slide show:\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\nClick to enlarge \nAugust 28th – September 15th\, 2024\nOpening Reception August 28\, 2024\, 6:00-9:00 pm\n \nWestbeth Gallery\n57 Bethune St\nNew York\, NY \nGallery hours Wednesday – Sunday 1:00 – 6:00pm \nArt Lives Here: Collecting is curated from the viewpoint of collecting contemporary art and\nbuilding a collection over time. ALH founder and chief curator Connie Lee led the curatorial\nteam of Alison Cuomo\, Karen Fitzgerald and Jim Richards. \nEach of the 4 rooms at the iconic Westbeth Gallery are curated with a unique theme within the larger cohesive exhibition. \nArt Lives Here: Collecting will feature the work of 52 contemporary artists. All are members of\nALH’s growing community of artists from New York City\, the U.S.\, London\, Berlin and Buenos\nAires. \nArtists:\nCheryl Aden\, Monique Allain\, Karin Bandelin\, Beth Barry\, Sylvia Battistuzzi\, Capucine Bourcart\,\nCarol Bouyoucos\, Andree Brown\, Karin Bruckner\, Elan Cadiz\, Ingrid Capozzoli Flinn\, Airco\nCaravan\, Marta Chilindron\, Heather Cox\, Jaynie Crimmins\, Alison Cuomo\, Yael Dresdner\,\nJoanne Dugan\, Katherine Earle\, Roberta Fineberg\, Karen Fitzgerald\, Laurence Elle Groux\,\nEileen Hoffman\, Monair Hyman\, Carmen Isasi\nJulia Justo\, Natalya Khorover\, Salem Kreiger\, Beatrice Lebreton\, Lynn Lieberman\, Barbara\nLubliner\, Donnelly Marks\, Elizabeth McAlpin\, Cinzia Meneghello\, Gail Meyers\, Tomo Mori\,\nStephanie Mulvihill\, Carol Paik\, Jim Richards\, Elizabeth Riley\, Jorge Luis- Rodriguez\, Gale\nRothstein\, Hiroshi Shafer\, Barbara Sherman\, Deborah Sherman\, Mel Smothers\, Susan Stair\,\nEmily Stedman\, Geoffrey Stein\, Glenyse Thompson\, Ellen Weider\, Michael Wolf. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/art-lives-here-collecting-an-art-fair-at-westbeth-gallery/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ART-LIVES-HERE-SQ-Collecting-IG-PROMO-copy.png GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240801T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240816T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140453 CREATED:20240709T015825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240820T205859Z UID:10000553-1722517200-1723831200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:ESKFF / / Galleri Ramfjord - A Tribute DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nOpening Thursday Aug 1\, 2024 6pm – 9pm\nAugust 1 – August 16\, 2024 \nWestbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune Street\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nWed – Sun 1pm – 6pm \n \nPHOTOS OF SELECTED WORK\nClick image for slide show\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 \nCelebrating a 10 year long collaboration\, highlighting works from artists in residency programs at ESKFF over the years. \nThe Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation (ESKFF) was founded in 2009 by its namesake who became inspired through her personal experience as a collector and entrepreneur. The Foundation was established to encourage collaboration and dialogue between artists\, art administrators\, collectors and art institutions. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/eskff-galerie-ramfjord-a-tribute/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ESKFF-_SQ-galleriramfjord-digital-NEW-e1721056821354.jpg GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240629T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240717T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140454 CREATED:20240310T190937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240718T125715Z UID:10000547-1719666000-1721239200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:WHITNEY STAFF ONLY ART SHOW DESCRIPTION:CLICK TO ENLARGE \nJune 29 – July 17\, 2024 \nFree and open to the public \nWestbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune Street\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nWednesday–Sunday\, 1–6 pm \nFrom its origins in Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s Greenwich Village studio in 1914 to its relocation to the Meatpacking District in 2015\, the Whitney Museum of American Art has always sought to support living artists at critical moments in their careers. \nMany of the Museum’s staff members\, who make the Museum’s exhibitions\, programs\, publications\, and day-to-day operations possible\, are artists themselves. For the seventh time in its history\, the Whitney Staff Art Show will be held in a public space\, offering staff an opportunity to share their work and deepen connections with one another as well as a wider public audience. \nFor the seventh year in a row\, the Whitney’s Staff Art Show will be held in a public space\, offering staff an opportunity to share their work and deepen connections with one another as well as a wider audience. This year’s exhibition will include the work of over ninety artists\, presenting a wide range of mediums\, including painting\, sculpture\, drawing\, photography\, printmaking\, collage\, and video\, and reflecting the diversity of artistic practice among the Whitney’s talented staff. \nSTAFF ONLY is organized by colleagues from various departments throughout the Museum.  \nThe exhibition is free and open to the public\, Wednesdays through Sundays from 1 to 6 p.m.and will be part of West Side Fest\, a celebration of arts and culture on the West Side of Manhattan\, July 12–14.2024 \nArtist Participants \nRamon Cintron\nalondra acevedo\nCrystal Aguila Morales\nFidel Alleyne\nStephanie Alifano\nScarlet-Frances Alonzo\nAlyssa Andrews\nMax Bell\nAnna Bida\nCorey Braxton\nMitsuko Brooks\nNatalee Cayton\nJaqueline Cedar\nViridiana Choy\nAseeli Coleman\nSpencer Compton\nHeather Cox\nKeira DiGaetano\nKasim Earl\nShanique Emelife\nDavid Ertel\nSarah Fortini\nDebora Francis\nMelinda Freudenberger\nEmma Gabel\nBehrang Garakani\nKarina B. García Labrana\nJohn Gaudio\nJesse Gelaznik\nAlana Giarrano Oula\nClaire Golder\nNora Gomez-Strauss\nAbigail Hack\nFelicia Huguley\nJunichiro Ishida\nEmily Jacoby\nArmando Jaramillo Garcia\nJennifer Jhagroo\nCaitlin Jones\nChris Ketchie\nKIKIISUN\nTom Koehler\nTom Kotik\nDenise Kupferschmidt\nCaroline LaCava\nMidrene Lamy\nMeredith Lawhead\nDavid Liburd\nRob Lomblad\nIris Ward Loughran\nEleanor Lovinsky\nJonita Luti\nDoug Madill\nGenevieve Martinez\nElissa Medina\nKristyna and Marek Milde\nVictor Moscoso\nMeer Musa\nWilliam Norton\nMeg O’Brien\nJustin Ortiz\nJason Philliips\nAnna Piwowar\nEliza Proctor\nGreg Reynolds\nMelissa Robles\nVíctor Ignacio\nJoshua Rosenblatt\nLynnette Therese Sauer\nLisa Saunders\nJosephine Schoen\nLaura Schwarz\nIrene Shifman\nElisabeth Skjærvold\nJim SKULDT\nNathan J. Smith\nEve Soleil\nCree Solomon\nNatalia Sterling\nJosephine Tam\nAdin Tannin\nSarika Tatineni Doppalapudi\nJoseph Teliha\nEva Tenby\nDavid Tufino\nKhaleiah Vasquez\nYuYu Vega\nEric Vermilion\nCynthia Laureen Vogt\nJosh Wertheimer\nChristine Zheng\n  URL:https://westbeth.org/event/whitney-staff-only-art-show/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/WMAA_Staff-Only_SQ-Social_FINAL_240613.png GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240601T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240621T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140454 CREATED:20240416T202402Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240624T020808Z UID:10000521-1717246800-1718992800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Synonymms: Rutgers University MFA Art Exhibit DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge Synonymms\nJune 1 –June 21\, 2024\nOpening Reception Saturday June 1\, 2024 6pm – 8pm \nGallery Hours: Wednesday – Sunday 1pm – 6pm \nWestbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune St\nNew York\, NY \nSynonymms with an additional m presents artwork by twelve artists who are also Rutgers\nUniversity’s 2024 Visual Arts MFA Graduate cohort. \nArtists\nSandra SK Amoabeng\, Angela Bidak\, Maura Torres Díaz\, Alfred Dudley III\, Em Gallagher\, Jason Hirata\, Andrew Kennedy\, Kabi Raj Lama\nMaisie Luo\, Park McArthur\, Justin Nalley\, Nick Newlin\, Adi Blaustein Rejtö\, Anton Varga. \nThis capstone exhibition is an occasion to consider the artists’ disparate practices following two years of graduate study. While this study in a formal sense has ended\, it continues through frequently collaborative and/or collective activities such as teaching\, organizing\, mentoring\, and archiving facilitated by and for the show’s participating artists. Like the artists departing their graduate program\, Synonymms’s organizers\, Park McArthur and Jason Hirata\, are leaving their current roles at Rutgers as well\, and will present artwork also\, bringing the total number of exhibiting artists to fourteen. \nThe artists in this exhibition are part of a greater half-century of Rutgers University arts education that prioritizes experimentation across artistic media and disciplines. \nThe exhibition was realized with the support of Art & Design Department faculty and staff as well as that of Westbeth Gallery’s Director Valérie Hallier and Gallery Coordinators. This iteration of the Rutgers in New York exhibition series returns\, for a third time\, to Westbeth–a complex of homes\, artists’ studios\, and arts organizations living at the intersection of West\,\nBethune\, Washington\, and Bank Streets. \nPlease join the artists for an opening reception Saturday\, June 1\, 6–8 p.m. \nWestbeth Gallery courtyard 55 Bethune Street New York\, New York 10014.\nThe building’s courtyard faces Bank Street and provides step-free access to Westbeth Gallery.\nWestbeth Gallery is open Wednesday–Sunday 1–6 p.m. \nMask: If you are able to\, please wear a mask inside the gallery. \nFor remote or in person tours\, press inquiries\, access\, more information\nplease email: rutgers.ny@gmail.com\nor visit\nmasongrossgalleries.rutgers.edu/synonymms. \nFor more information about the Art & Design Department at Mason Gross School of the Arts\nRutgers University please visit: masongross.rutgers.edu/degrees-programs/art-design. \nFor more about Westbeth Gallery please visit: https://westbeth.org/about/westbeth-gallery. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/synonymms-rutgers-university-mfa-art-exhibit/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SYNONYMMS-_square-REV_RUinNY_FINAL.jpg GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240421T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140454 CREATED:20240229T224630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T011459Z UID:10000479-1712149200-1713722400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Mind Leaves Body: Elisabeth Condon\, Susan Luss\, Alyse RosnerReview by Art Spiel DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nApril 3 – April 21\, 2024 \nOpening Reception: Wednesday April 3\, 2024 at 6pm – 9pm \nWalk Through: Saturday April 6\, 2024 at 2pm \nPanel Discussion: Wednesday April 17\, 2024 at 7pm\nwith Amy Talluto.\nAmy Talbot is a painter and sculptor who lives and works in Upstate NY. In 2018 the was awarded a NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellowship in Painting and was an Art Forum Critics Pick for her solo exhibition at Black & White Gallery. She has recently shown her work at Auxier Kline Gallery\, Jeff Bailey Gallery\, The Berkshire Botanical Gardens\, the Samuel Dorsey Museum\, Geoffrey Young Gallery and Wave Hill Gardens\, She is the host and producer of the Pep Talks for Artists Podcast. \nClosing Reception: Sunday April 21\, 2024 at 5pm – 7pm \nFeatured Artists: Elisabeth Condon\, Susan Luss\, Alyse Rosner \nMind Leaves Body features works by three painters who explore nature\, city dwelling\, and décor through creative processes that blur distinctions between inside and outside\, interior and exterior\, and intuition and physicality. Their flexible\, large-scale pieces propose\, in the words of essayist Paul D’Agostino\, that\, “If it sometimes seems as though the artist’s mind leaves the artist’s body\, then it’s because the artist’s mindless body is often the more fluidly productive one in the studio.” \nReview by Art Spiel \nWhen Elisabeth Condon noticed an Open Call for a show at Westbeth\, she immediately thought of artists Alyse Rosner and Susan Luss\, whose process-oriented approach perfectly matched her vision for a collaborative project. They all agreed to come together\, planning to let the installation unfold over four days\, allowing their work to merge and shape the exhibition dynamics. Their setup process—discussing\, reshaping\, and improvising in the gallery—revealed more profound interconnections. The trio’s improvisational method produced an exciting viewing experience analogous to a live jazz ensemble with distinct leitmotifs.em> URL:https://westbeth.org/event/mind-leaves-body-elisabeth-condon-susan-luss-alyse-rosneropens-r-review-by-art-spiel/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/MIND-LEAVES-BODY-SQ-1080-x-1080-pixels-300-dpi-CMYK.png GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240323T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140454 CREATED:20240304T170627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T200030Z UID:10000459-1709730000-1711216800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Women on the Verge Exhibition of Artists Affiliated with the29.art DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nMarch 6 – March 23\, 2024 \nOpening Reception: Wednesday\, March 6\, 2024 6pm – 8pm\nNote: The Westbeth Gallery will open at 6pm on that day. \nWestbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune Street\, NY\, NY\nGallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday\, 1-6 pm and by appointment \nWestbeth Gallery is pleased to present Women on the Verge\, a group exhibition of artists\naffiliated with the29.art\, a digital platform seeking to create opportunities for self-identified\nwomen working in the arts. It is a group of more than twenty-nine well-established\, mid-career\, and emerging artists\, diverse in practice\,\nmedium\, age\, ethnicity\, and background. \nThe exhibition is curated by Kathy Brew and features films\, art\, poetry\, and performance. \nParticipating Artists \nKathy Brew\nYoshiko Chuma\nMartha Edelheit\nMichelle Handelman\nJulia Heyward\njennifer jazz\nPamela Lawton\nStefani Mar\nAline Mare\nLucia Maria Minervini\nHelen Oji\n \nJanet Panetta\nJeanne Quinn\nMelinda Ring\nFelice Rosser\nLynne Sachs\nSusan Salinger\nMM Serra\nShelly Silver\nPamela Sneed\nLila Zemborain \nFor press inquiries and appointments\nSusan Salinger (917) 327-6201 or Kathy Brew (917) 592-4134 \nMore info: the29.art URL:https://westbeth.org/event/women-on-the-verge-exhibition-of-artists-affiliated-with-the29-art/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/WOMEN-ON-VERGE-WITH-NAMES.jpg GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240203T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240224T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140454 CREATED:20231128T023130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240226T175741Z UID:10000445-1706965200-1708797600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Dana Gordon Signs of LIfe Paintings from 2023 DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nFeb 3- Feb 24\, 2024\nOpening Reception\nSunday Feb 3\, 2024 5pm – 7pm \nThe Westbeth Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of 25 paintings from 2023 by Dana Gordon. \nDana Gordon is an American abstract painter who began his art career working\nas assistant to Tony Smith and George Sugarman in the late 1960s in New York. He studied painting at Brown University and Hunter College\, and photography with Aaron Siskind in Chicago. He was a professor of art\, mainly in the 1970s\, and his avant-garde films have been featured at MoMA and internationally. \nGordon’s painting has been seen in fifteen solo shows and many group shows in New York\,\nChicago\, Paris\, and Boca Raton\, including at such galleries as Andre Zarre\, Charles Cowles\,\n55 Mercer\, and The Painting Center in Manhattan\, and Sideshow in Brooklyn. \nIn 1974\, after making three-dimensional and shaped canvases and other avant-garde\nexperiments for about nine years\, Gordon decided to “start over”\, to find his own language\nof art. He put a simple white chalk mark on a piece of black paper\, and let things develop\nfreely from there. The marks went not only toward strokes and their arrangements\, lines\,\noutlines\, and abstract or figurish shapes\, but inevitably toward proto-languages\, too. He\nretained the use of pure color so essential to abstraction. \nGordon’s recent paintings (and writings) energize a revitalized appreciation of abstraction\nand its connection with the old and the new. \nDana Gordon was one of the principal founders of The Painting Center in New York in\n1993. In the same year one of his paintings was reproduced as the front cover of the Paris\nReview (issue no. 129). \nGordon’s work is in many collections\, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art\, M.I.T.\,\nAdelphi University\, and the Royal Belgian Film Archive\, and of Edward Albee\, Virgil\nThomson\, Hilton Kramer\, and James Panero. \nHis art received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Fdn.\, Rauschenberg’s Change Fdn.\,\nand university research grants\, and residencies at the Edward Albee Fdn.\, the Triangle Workshop\,\nand the Millay Colony. In 1978 he was the “runner-up” for the NEA’s US/UK Bicentennial Exchange Fellowship. \nCritical acclaim for Gordon’s work has included the L.A.Times\, 1978: “… for purists and\npioneers in pursuit of new perceptions.” John Russell in the NY Times in 1987 “…well\nworth seeking out…a painter of whom it would be good to see more.” Helen Harrison\, NY\nTimes\, 1994: “…beautiful paintings\, filled with the controlled exuberance of a carefully\norchestrated spectacle.”\nGrace Glueck\, NY Times\, 1997: “… a very lively eyefest.” James\nPanero\, in the New Criterion\, 2014: “While many artists paint widely\, Gordon paints\ndeeply…. Gordon knows ‘what only painting can do.’ ” David Cohen\, of Art Critical\, on\nGordon’s 2018 Paris show “Lucky Paris.” \nGordon has written about art for The Wall Street Journal\, The New Criterion\, The New\nYork Sun\, Commentary\, Delicious Line\, The Jerusalem Post\, and Painters’ Table.\nGordon says: “To paint I get into a frame of mind where I can bring everything to bear\,\nfocused on the moment of painting. A given subject is too limiting; painting’s potency is\ncomprehensive and open-ended and develops its own subject\, if allowed to. Abstract\nform underlies all visual art; form’s content expresses intellect and feeling. Painting is as\nalive as ever: after millenia why would our little era not have it\, it’s a sign of life. All art\nis now; in art there are no “other” cultures. My painting does not subvert\, it upholds art\nand reaches for beauty.” \nNext to the Hudson River\, in Manhattan’s West Village\, The Westbeth Gallery is an\nindependently curated gallery run by artists living in Westbeth\, a historic artist residence\nin a building converted in 1970 from the Bell Telephone Laboratories and on the National\nRegister of Historic Places.Westbeth also houses The New School for Drama\, and The Kitchen. \nHome Page image: Sea of Possibility (detail) oil on canvas 64 x 72 inches 2023 \nMore info: danagordon.art\n1danagordon@gmail.com\nInfo: westbethgallery@gmail.com URL:https://westbeth.org/event/dana-gordon/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DanaGordon_-SQ-11x8.5_RGB.png GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240106 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250101 DTSTAMP:20260430T140454 CREATED:20240106T230102Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240116T165605Z UID:10000447-1704499200-1735689599@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Gallery 2024 Exhibitions Calendar DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-gallery-2024-exhibitions-calendar/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Westbeth-Gallery-REV-2024-Exhibition-Calendar.png GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240105T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240125T190000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140454 CREATED:20240111T133345Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240130T193309Z UID:10000438-1704474000-1706209200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Beyond the Surface: Constructing DestructionGroup Show DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nShow Dates: January 5 – January 25\, 2024 \nWestbeth Gallery is pleased to launch its 2024 season with “Beyond the Surface: Constructing Destruction.” Curated by Vida Geranmayeh and Daniel G. Hill\, this exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists who challenge and expand the boundaries of painting\, drawing\, and sculpture. \nFeaturing Artists:\nGail Biederman\, Lily de Bont\, Daniel G. Hill\, Kathleen Kucka\, Steven Millar\, Gelah Penn\, David Rhodes\, Mary Schiliro\, Howard Schwartzberg\, Jan Maarten Voskuil \n“Beyond the Surface: Constructing Destruction” navigates the nuanced space between creation and disruption\, with a focus on transformative techniques and the integral role of materials in the creative process. The exhibition re-contextualizes the traditional mediums of painting and sculpture\, as each artist explores the dynamic interplay of contrasting transformations. In an era marked by global challenges\, the exhibition positions art as a platform for dialogue and positive change. It confronts self-censorship\, extends the reach of artistic expression\, and encourages viewers to investigate uncharted territories. By reexamining the familiar\, these artists discover new paths within established genres\, inspiring viewers to question and reconsider prevailing artistic notions. The exhibition underscores the importance of mastery of craft in achieving innovation\, often leading to an expansion of artistic boundaries. \nGail Biederman utilizes felt and yarn\, creating psychogeographic maps in her large-scale installations and intimate works on paper\, drawing upon experience and memory. \nLily de Bont radically reimagines the painter’s linen\, deconstructing the canvas into loose threads\, leading to complex compositions where gravity plays a pivotal role. \nDaniel G. Hill explores the physical and metaphorical roles of gravity in art\, creating self-reflexive pieces that provoke wonder and contemplation. \nKathleen Kucka uses burning as a transformative technique\, exploring rebirth and destruction through a personal language of forms and patterns. \nSteven Millar draws inspiration from diverse allusions\, from atmospheric phenomena like rainbows to symbolic objects such as memorial stones. Merging the handmade\, fabricated\, and found\, his pieces cultivate unique forms of expression. \nGelah Penn’s site-responsive installations and wall constructions blur the lines between drawing and sculpture\, orchestrating events of perceptual incident and psychological unease. \nDavid Rhodes’s paintings feature material brevity\, elemental facture and compelling visuality. He uses only black paint on canvas. The complex figure ground configurations and rhythmic pattern are typical. \nMary Schiliro experiments with acrylic paint and Mylar\, exploring the tangible versus the ephemeral as metaphors for the human condition. Her work expands the boundaries of painting and presents new possibilities for presentation. \nHoward Schwartzberg uniquely employs paint and canvas to craft shapes\, pushing beyond traditional painting boundaries and exploring the canvas’s multidimensional roles in artistic expression. \nJan Maarten Voskuil stretches painting into the third dimension\, cutting and reconstructing canvases into modular forms that blur the lines between painting\, sculpture\, design\, and architecture. \nContact: Vida Geranmayeh (917) 838-1774 vida@gallerygeranmayeh.com \nGallery hours: Wednesday through Sunday\, 12pm–6pm and by appointment \nClosing Event/Artist Reception: Thursday\, January 25\, 2024\, 5-7pm \nWestbeth Gallery\, 55 Bethune Street\, New York\, NY 10014 www.westbeth.org URL:https://westbeth.org/event/beyond-the-surface-constructing-destructiongroup-show-2/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Construction-DestrucT-SQ-REV-_1080x1080_Constructing-Destruction_white.jpg GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231228T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140454 CREATED:20231031T030607Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231229T003024Z UID:10000422-1700208000-1703782800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Winter Show of Westbeth Visual Artists DESCRIPTION:Postcards of the work exhibited in the Winter Show are now\, for the first time\, available for purchase at the Gallery. Here are some representative examples:\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\nClick to enlarge \nNov 17\, 2023 – Dec 28\, 2023\nOpening Reception: Friday Nov 17\, 2023 6pm – 8pm \nWestbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune Street\nNew York\, NY \nGallery Hours: Wed – Sunday 1pm – 6pm \nWestbeth Gallery is proud to present its annual year-end exhibition celebrating the work of Westbeth artists in painting\, sculpture\, printmaking\, mixed media\, public art\, installation\, photography\, video and film. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-winter-show-2-of-westbeth-visual-artists/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/WinterShow_Poster2023_1-1_1080.jpg GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231006T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140454 CREATED:20230925T191830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231031T015549Z UID:10000400-1696597200-1698602400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:DADS: A Group Exhibition of Artists Who Are Also Fathers DESCRIPTION:Westbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune St\, New York\, NY \nShow Dates: Oct 6 – Oct 29\, 2023 \nGallery hours: Wednesday – Sunday 1-6pm and by appointment. \nWestbeth Gallery is pleased to present Dads\, a group exhibition of artists who are also fathers\, on view at its’ Richard Meier designed courtyard location\, 55 Bethune Street in the West Village of New York. The show is curated by artist James Gortner. \nRarely in the contemporary art conversation is family and fatherhood considered a defining characteristic of an artist’s life\, motivation\, and/or artistic practice\, and it is dismissed as a barrier to the full realization one’s artistic potential. The featured artists have many differences – different stages in their careers\, diverse backgrounds and work across many mediums – but they are all dads who make art. It is the point of this exhibition to highlight a unique kind of familial artist identity\, and activate your feelings about each work knowing this identity is present. \nThe Dads exhibition will survey artworks by the following 36 artists: \n\nGregory Amenoff\nAnthony Boone\nGerald Cannon\nStanley Casselman\nJean Clanche\nGrayson Cox\nMark Dion\nBrock Enright\nDomenic Esposito\nJames Gortner\nMichael Guillard\nStephen Hall\n \n\nAdam Handler\nMarc Handelman\nBradley Hart\nHans Haveron\nJon Kessler\nGene Kiegel\nRick Klauber\nReiner Leist\nHenry Leutwyler\nRob MacInnis\nMatt Mullican\nAntonio Murado \n\n\nJeff Muhs\nYigal Ozari\nNick Paparone\nMourrice Papi\nFahamu Pecou\nRobert Roest\nMeir Srebriansky\nJacob Taylor\nFrancisco Vidal\nTomas Vu\nJohan Wahlstrom\nMark Zimmerman \n\n\n\nFor all appointments and press inquiries\, contact\nJames Gortner +1 310 463 9778 JamesGortner.art@gmail.com \nDADS OPENING RECEPTION Oct 13\, 2023 URL:https://westbeth.org/event/dads-a-group-exhibition-of-artists-who-are-also-fathers/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/DADS-Show-8.5x11_FINAL-updated-e1695669347638.png GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230907T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140454 CREATED:20230808T164156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T192151Z UID:10000359-1694073600-1695920400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Ken Wade: Selected Retrospective DESCRIPTION:September 7th – 28th\, 2023\nGallery hours: Wedn-Sunday 1-6PM \nOPENING\, Thursday\, September 7 2023\, 6-8 pm. \nWestbeth Gallery\n155 Bank Street\nEnter through courtyad\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nKen Wade moved into WestBeth Artist Housing on January 1\, 1970 where the artist has lived and worked for 53 years. This September\, Wade will be opening a one-person Selective Retrospective with drawings\, paintings\, and sculptures dating from 1964 to the present. \n“I began making art in the early 1960s while living on the Island state of Tasmania; 125 miles off the SE coast of Australia. Four years later\, back in the USA\, my first American exhibition (1968) was at the Corcoran Museum\, Washington DC; I exhibited a series of large Zig-Zag paintings.\nThe images to follow represent selected work from early 60s (Tasmania/Melbourne)\, work done in Washington (67-69)\, ultimately concluding with NYC during the 70s-80s up to the present.\nOn New Years’ day 1970\, my family and I moved from Washington\, DC into the WestBeth Artist Housing. With us\, a huge crate\, that had followed us from Melbourne\, to London\, to Washington DC to New York City. The crate was packed solid with paintings and drawings that I had done in Australia\, and weighed nearly 1500 lbs . We gratefully accepted management’s offer of storage space in the basement facing the Westside Highway.\nLong story short—there was a flood.\n‘BIRD IN THE BUSH’ #9 was one of many dozens of BIRD’s & NUDE’s in the BUSH I painted during my 2 years in Tasmania. BIRD# 9 is the only painting from the crate that survived Westbeth’s first flood. ” \nMore about Ken Wade and his work at Westbeth Artist Page: Ken Wade URL:https://westbeth.org/event/ken-wade-selected-retrospective/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/KenWade_Instagram.jpg GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230803T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230823T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140454 CREATED:20230721T182543Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230824T141725Z UID:10000356-1691049600-1692810000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westside Exposure: Whitney Staff Art Show 2023 DESCRIPTION:August 3 – 23\, 2023\nOpening Reception\nThursday Aug 3\, 6–8 pm \nGallery Hours\nWednesday–Sunday\, 1–6 pm \nWestbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune Street\nNew York\, NY\n \nFrom its origins in Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s Greenwich Village studio\, in 1914\, to its relocation to the Meatpacking District in 2015\, the Whitney Museum of American Art has always sought to support living artists at critical moments in their careers. Many of the Museum’s staff members\, who make the Museum’s exhibitions\, programs\, publications\, and day-to-day operations possible\, are artists themselves. \nFor the sixth time in its history\, the Whitney’s Staff Art Show will be held in a public space\, offering staff an opportunity to share their work and deepen connections with one another as well as a wider audience. \nWestside Exposure is organized by a number of colleagues from various departments throughout the Museum. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westside-exposure-whitney-staff-art-show-2023/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Westside-Exposure_SQ-Letter-e1689963307744.png GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230630T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230728T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T140454 CREATED:20230612T004352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230730T212308Z UID:10000337-1688112000-1690563600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Unnatural Processes Group Exhibition Closing Party DESCRIPTION:Closing Party Thursday July 27 6p – 8p\nOpening Reception: Friday\, June 30\, 2023 6pm – 8pm\nOn View: June 30–July 28\, 2023\nHours: Wednesday–Sunday\, 1–6pm \nWestbeth Gallery\, 57 Bethune Street\, New York\, NY 10014 \n“Throwing light onto the unnatural\, reflecting on and exploring new connections with non-human systems.” \nWestbeth Gallery is pleased to present a group show curated by Valérie Hallier. Unnatural Processes is an exhibition that asks the questions: What is “Nature”? What is “Natural”? \nArtists:: Aston Philip\, Christina Massey\, Jean Foos\, Katherine Bennett\, Linda Loh\, Roxane Revon\, Tessa Grundon and Valérie Haller. \nNature is an all encompassing entity that exists without humans. Yet\, it is impossible to think of humanity as an entity that could exist without nature. Seeing humanity and all its actions as part of nature is more reasonable. French anthropologist\, Philippe Descola\, observes 4 ways of “being” in the world as humans: animism\, totemism\, analogism and naturalism. If we agree that our thought processes are firmly welded into Western philosophy\, prizing the rational\, scientific\, and logical\, we can then agree that we embody naturalism. Yet as artists we are open to other ways of being\, thinking\, and seeing. The work of the eight international artists featured in this show revisits our contemporary relationship with the non-human. A great variety of mediums and processes are all centered around new ways to visualize and interact with our environment: virtual\, real\, or re-created. \nLinda Loh’s virtual world reveals fleeting spaces beyond everyday experiences. Roxane Revon maps out the underground ecosystem of specific locations. Similarly\, Tessa Grundon’s work is rooted in “places”\, reflecting on our current Anthropocene. Aston Philip creates an ecosystem of the painters tools and materials with each part incorporated and recycled. Jean Foos\, Valérie Hallier and Christina Massey’s mixed media sculptures each bring new life to discarded objects\, eloquently commenting on consumerism and climate change. Foos\, Hallier and Massey also give a nod to Surrealism as they fabricate pieces with unexpected\, “unnatural” combinations. Katherine Bennett’s interactive installation is inspired by hidden networks drawing upon marine organisms and communication networks. \nAbout the Artists\n_____________________________________________________________________________ \nAston Philip is a painter who has expanded his practice into a process based ecosystem. This includes collaging\, weaving and sculpting cured paint-skins and chips and incorporating the tools of painting back into his works. Aston’s fascination with the interconnected systems and relationships in the natural world direct his own purview of painting. \nJean Foos paints patterns on found objects. Stacking shapes to make a totem or arranging branches into a colorful standing bundle\, she gives them a new power and dimension. The title of Foos’ tower\, Convulsive Beauty in the Fur Teacup Bar\, evokes Méret Oppenheim’s surrealist objects and her thinking about the concrete realization of irrationality. “I respond to shapes\, natural (fallen tree branches) and unnatural (manufactured packaging material). I am not a sculptor\, per se\, my forms are available ready-made.” \nValérie Hallier improvises with collected pressed flower petals of many colors and shapes to create abstract collages that reflect her inner workings. Inspired by Surrealist automatism\, the artist tries to suppress conscious control over the visual result. This process expresses the longing for a communion with the world around her. \n–Hallier’s work follows an integrative continuum that utilizes technology\nas tool and object\, generating an exquisite tension between the humanistic\nand mechanistic sense of Being.” —Judith Escalona \nChristina Massey’s mixed media sculptures are created with blown glass\, repurposed aluminum sourced from craft beer cans\, and other found materials such as wire\, copper and plastics. The sculptures appear organic\, like surreal alien plant forms. These bulbs act as crystal balls in a sense\, a commentary on the predictive nature of trying to measure and adapt to Climate Change. \nKatherine Bennett’s interactive installation\, Luciferins\, is about making network traffic perceptible\, and by extension\, our awareness of the ubiquitous digital infrastructure that surrounds\, connects\, and ultimately tracks us. Viewers walk through large felted structures\, awakening graphical portals depicting invisible network traffic of popular websites\, sound from other locations\, and\nairwave activity. \n“One’s physicality makes the work come to life—just as a swimmer makes bioluminescent marine organisms illuminate\, generating luciferins (a light-emitting compound). Suddenly\, one can see the invisible activity that surrounds them.”\n—Katherine Bennett \nRoxane Revon is a multidisciplinary artist and scenographer examining the inner workings of “nature” and intrigued by the symbiotic relationships between humans and vegetal beings. She makes her viewers question their relationship to the earth and the various forms of life that grow in and out of it. Revon zooms in on the invisible\, making us take a deeper look at our own origins and foundations. She brings us to a place of restored fertility and rebirth\, allowing for new ways of grounding and reviving visions of the self. \nLinda Loh navigates the elusive form and materiality of digital space with transformed sources of light. Motivated by curiosity\, she thinks digital media is as slippery as the nature of mind; her abstract composites leave little obvious for the rational mind to grasp. Her work for this exhibition is a luminous\, color-saturated\, non-ordinary ‘world’\, revealing fleeting spaces beyond everyday experience. \nTessa Grundon uses material from nature as well as man-made elements. Her work is deeply rooted to the history of a place\, as she considers the geological age with human activity being the dominant influence on the landscape and climate. Our environment is ever-changing: the rising and increasingly polluted tides; man’s effect on community and landscape; and man’s shared visual language of natural forms. All of these come together is Grundon’s work as she explores contemporary environmental issues. \nARTIST BIOS\n_______________________________________________________________________________ \nKatherine Bennett is a new media\, fiber\, and installation artist\, who builds interactive systems exploring our emerging futures of the digital experience. She codes and incorporates sensors\, electronics\, fibers and computer vision to create her pieces. She is fascinated by the liminal spaces created by digital communities and the cultural changes that result. She is a NYSCA recipient and has been awarded many grants\, including Harvestworks. She has exhibited at Inst-Int\, ISEA\, Maryland Art Place\, ZKM\, Indianapolis Art Center and The University of the Arts. She runs LadyK Studios in Brooklyn.\nhttps://www.katherinebennett.net/ @ladykstudios/ \nJean Foos paints found objects with rich colors and patterned surfaces. For her site-specific installations Foos favors ad hoc urban settings\, such as long-abandoned buildings and community gardens. Her sculptures have been exhibited at Local Project Art Space LIC\, Hal Bromm Gallery\, Empirical Nonsense Gallery\, York College (CUNY)\, King Manor Museum\, Susquehanna Art Museum\, La Mama Galleria\, Governors Island (4heads AIR)\, and Le Petit Versailles Garden.\nhttps://jeanfoos.com/ @foosnyc \nTessa Grundon is a British artist working on both sides of the Atlantic. Her work is rooted in “place” using elements of the landscape to explore environmental issues. In recent years she has been based on Governors Island in NYC Harbor working with arts and science organizations including SWALE\, Urban Soil Institute\, NYU Gallatin’s “Wetlab”\, Works on Water\, Underwater New York and the Virtual Volcano Observatory focusing on engagement with the environment and education. She works with Artist Space as a teaching artist on the Lower East Side and past residencies and partnerships include Brooklyn Navy Yard\, Art.Earth\, I-Park Foundation\, Wave Hill\, PLACE Collective and Sail Britain.\nwww.tessagrundon.com @tessa.grundon \nBorn in France\, Valérie Hallier came to NYC with a Fulbright Scholarship and graduated from the SVA in Computer Arts. Early multimedia work received prizes at ACM Siggraph\, SCAN Arts Symposium\, Ars Electronica and Anima Mundi. Using a wide swath of mediums\, Hallier redefines the art of portraiture and self-portraiture in the forms of immersive installations\, interactive public art and two-dimensional renderings. Hallier is the recipient of grants from Contemporary Art Foundation\, NYSCA\, and Wave Farm. Her work has been shown internationally. Residencies include Pioneer Works\, NARS Foundation\, Trestle ArtSpace\, Harvestworks\, LMCC Arts Center and 4Heads Portal in NYC.\nwww.valeriehallier.com @multiplemedia_artist \nLinda Loh Linda Loh is an Australian visual artist whose multimedia works navigate digital space with transformed sources of light. Before and after graduating from SVA in 2021 with an MFA in Computer Arts\, she has participated in various international exhibition projects. Most recently she was engaged in an innovative curatorial project\, culminating in an exhibition at Untitled Miami in December 2022.\nhttps://lindaloh.com/ @__lindaloh__ (2 underscores at each end) \nChristina Massey is a mixed media artist using repurposed materials in her nature inspired abstractions. Her work ranges from painting to sculpture and installation and has won several awards including two Brooklyn Arts Council grants\, an FST StudioProject award and the EFARBPS SIP Fellowship. Her sculptural paintings can currently be seen at the off-site location for Court Tree Collective in midtown Manhattan and as a solo installation at the Gallery for ARTFul Medicine at Montefiore Einstein in the Bronx\, NY.\nwww.cmasseyart.com @cmasseyart \nAston Philip exhibits his unique paintings\, paint tapestries and colorful paint brush installations with Beekman Arts Club projects and galleries. Aston has previously been included in notable exhibitions in Australia including the Sulman Prize for painting at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Award at Artspace\, Sydney. This month he is simultaneously showing in the exhibition “Wild Things’ with the Beekman Art’s Club in Hopewell Junction NY.\nwww.astonphilip.com @aston_philip \nRoxane Revon is a multidisciplinary artist and scenographer examining the inner workings of “nature” and intrigued by the symbiotic relationships between humans and vegetal beings. She recently collaborated with the ABT choreographer Jessica Lang on “Shades of Spring” at the Joyce Theater and is currently showing her artwork and installations at Cinema Supply Gallery in Chelsea.\nwww.roxanerevon.com @roxane_revon URL:https://westbeth.org/event/unnatural-processes/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/UNNATURAL-PROCESSES-.jpg GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR