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New and In Progress Work

The work shown here by Westbeth artists began in March 2020 in reaction to the pandemic. The work continues to progress as the months and year have passed, its focus broadening, the creative response deepening.

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Ralph Lee, the founder of NYC Halloween Parade has a new installation in the Inner Courtyard of Westbeth right across from the Westbeth Gallery. Every season, Ralph installs a diorama from his vast collection of hand made , giant puppets.
October 2022

Photo: CMaile

Eve Zanni
Dharmaland

Brian Chidester, the director of DHARMALAND and other fabulous projects celebrating the life and music of Eden Ahbez, was looking for artists' recordings of his songs OTHER than the well-known, much-recorded Nature Boy, and found my recording of Land of Love! He invited me to be a part of a new project: new recordings of Ahbee's unreleased music! I'm singing backup on a few of the tracks and feeling UBER BLEST to be in such lovely company!

Joan Hall
"Jill's Room 1"

The art is composed of 3 boxes. Box 1 depicts a room with an empty chair. Box 2 reveals a woman on the chair in the room. Box 3 shows a couple seated together. It is an interactive art piece, creating an illusion of infinite space within the limitations of the dimensions of the box.
The viewer as “Voyeur” encounters an opening in a box as if looking through a hole in a wall which is covered with peeling wallpaper. A furnished room appears on the other side.

Mixed-media construction

Susan Berger
"Covid 19 Series: Part 1" continued

The third row again of the toll of the Covid 19 pandemic and how areas especially the "Village" witnessed it.
The fourth row of those lives that were lost because of Covid19.
I use weave stitching, rug hooking, drawings, and wanted to capture the newsprint feeling to actual use of newsprint itself.
66 x 48 x 3-4 inches. There will be 13 panels. 2020

Robert Bunkin

"Shut-In Series #10"
This is the last of this series of small, 8 x 8 inches, portraits of my wife Jenny Tango. At 93, soon to turn 94, she continues to paint and also pursue social justice issues via the internet. Throughout her life as an artist, art educator and mother of two daughters, she has maintained a deep commitment to social justice, as an activist in the civil rights movement, anti-nuclear movement, world peace, tenants rights, economic justice, feminism, etc.
I painted this in troubling, but hopeful times. This painting follows a much more up-beat portrait that shows Jenny smiling, but while she was posing for this one, her face reflected the news of yet another brutal murder of an innocent black man, and the rudderless, utterly immoral leadership of our current president and his entire corrupt administration."

June 2020

Robert Bunkin painter

"Finishing this small painting yesterday, we were listening to performances of Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs, sublime music, performed by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, an extraordinary classic recording, and the majestic Jessye Norman.
It wasn't easy for Jenny to hold this smile, but she allowed me to understand the way the smile affects the lineaments of her face."

Acrylic on canvas
10 x 10 inches
2020

Blanka Harper ,musician.

Afternoon of a Blue Faun. "I volunteer as a gardener in the small circle area under the trees in Westbeth's Bank Street courtyard. I planted this iris about 4 years ago, and it has naturalized. Year after year it blooms. This year, the crisis, has made this bloom even more special to me. It has lifted my spirits as I hope it has lifted the spirits." of others who see it."
Photo May 17, 2020

Robert Bunkin, painter

"Painted from life, Jenny has been posing for about 2-2 1/2 hours with breaks almost every day since our confinement began. Usually we work with music, Shostakovich Chamber music, Bach; today we listened to an historic recording of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto with Arthur Schnabel, a CD I got at the Westbeth Flea Market! "

10 x 10 inch acrylic on canvas, painted on 3 May 2020.

Christina Maile printmaker

"Trying to spend at least an hour a day on drawing - for the past 6 weeks I've been concentrating on birds from photographs, and their structure from books. There's so much to think about - the vulnerability of ourselves especially of the health care workers and those who volunteer to help, but also the fragility of the earth and its environment . For me, birds represent an example of elegance and strength to weather this storm."
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Robert Bunkin, painter. Jenny by the Venetian Blinds.

"I have been painting Jenny, my wife and fellow artist of 47 years, all throughout our relationship. At 93 sitting still is not so easy for her, but at the outset of this crisis she offered to sit for me. I've also been painting the view from my window, but being primarily a figure painter from life, I cherish the opportunity this self-isolation has presented to focus entirely on her. I have been doing small-scale series of other friends/artists with whom I exchange posing, so serial portraiture was something I was already exploring." Completed 22 April 2020. 10 x 10 inches a/c

Medical Gown, Ann Hamilton fine arts textile designer, and Bridget Carey fashion costumer.

"These are the emergency medical gowns , about 40 per week, we have been making as volunteer seamstresses for the Broadway Relief Project. The Project asks for volunteers to sew gowns and masks which are be provided free to health and public service workers." For more info: Email: brian.deutsch@openjarstudios.com"

Elisa Decker, painter.

"After some time had passed from bringing home a free poinsettia I had found on the street, I noticed that the leaves curled beautifully after they fell off the plant. I also enjoyed their subtle variations in color. So I kept some, allowing them out to dry further on my table. Also on my table, was the card of Saloua Raouda Choucair's painting, from the show "Taking Shape: Abstraction From the Arab World, 1950s-1980s. So I began to play. I keep adding to the arrangement, so it's an ongoing puzzle. Perhaps it will turn into a drawing next..."

Elena Borstein painter.

Part of a series called Resist, began as an Homage to Mexican architect Luis Barragan. As our border policies became more and more inhumane I shifted this series to encompass the meaning of what was happening to immigrants on our southern border. The paintings have taken on a more complex , even contradictory meaning now. I feel that artists can no longer simply portray beauty without acknowledging the cruelty and inhumanity of our government.

Ralph Lee, side view of installation.
October 2022

Photo: CMaile

Ralph Lee, Inner courtyard view
October 2022

Photo: CMaile

Mary Ridge
Hudson River, Ferry, and Erie Lackawanna background, 2021

Photograph

Mary Ridge
Wolf Moon Descending and Sunrise, November , 2021 7 a.m.

Photograph

Mary Ridge
Sparrows Foraging on West 14th Street, 2022

Photograph

Mary Ridge
Ground Cover

Selected by the Carter-Burden Gallery for the upcoming “Looking Forward” Exhibit,
consisting of 68 artists from across the United States. The photograph was taken at the Bronx Botanical Gardens,
in May of 2021. The exhibit runs from Nov. 18th to Dec. 17th at the Cartrer -Burden gallery,
548 W. 28th St., # 534. The reception is on Nov. 18th, from 4 -7 pm.

Mary Ridge
Ice Skating Heron

Recently placed 8th in an international competition at the online gallery, Light, Space & Time.

Mary Ridge
Striped Leaves

Photograph. May 2021

Olive Athens
Manhattan at Midnight

A view from my Westbeth window.
16 x 20 inches watercolor

Roger Braimon
View from Charles Deck, Provincetown

Watercolor
16 x 20 inches
Aug 22, 2021

Mary Ridge
East River Drive, Contemplation

Photograph
Light, Space, Time Gallery winner

Mary Ridge
Colorful Alley, NYC

Photograph
Light, Space, Time Gallery winner

Karen Santry
Kabuki 1

Monoprint on rice paper
2020 - 2021

Karen Santry
Kabuki 2

Monoprint on rice paper
2020 - 2021

Karen Santry
Kabuki 3

Monoprint on rice paper
2020 - 2021

Karen Santry
Fashion Illustration

2020 - 2021

Karen Santry
"Women with Pugs"
Book Cover of the
Big Book of Fashion Illustration

Olive Ayhens
Overpop Jamboree

"Westbeth is so different now from when I moved in over a year ago at the height of the pandemic."

oil on linen 51 x 63 inches 2021

Olive Ayhens
Overpop Jamboree (detail)

oil on linen 51 x 63 inches 2021

Roger Braimon
Provincetown Adams Nest

Watercolor
12 x 16 inches
June 2021

Roger Braimon
Provincetown Court Street

Watercolor
12 x 16 inches
June 2021

Christina Maile
Wild and Precious Life 2

Ink and watercolor on paper 22.5 x 30 inches
June 2021

Leni Schwendinger
Nightseeing Project:
Curbed - from Dark to Light

Invited by New York Magazine and Curbed my digital response was published March 20, 2021. “Immerse your eyes and imagination: nightwalk with me through NYC at night as a tribute to our restaurateurs and their ingenuity throughout the pandemic.”t
Media: Photography and graphic collage

Mary Ridge
Dawn over Madrid

I recently received a Special Merit Prize in the category of Abstract Photography, from the online gallery Light, Space,Time. ( March 2021)

Taken on a plane, traveling to Barcelona in 2017. I woke up at exactly the right moment to experience the dawn!

Mary Ridge
Vietnamese Boy on the Telephone

Won a Special Merit Award in the Figurative Category at the online gallery, Light, Space, Time. ( March 2021)

Jonathan Bauch
'TheSteel"

Featured in Carter Burden Gallery show opening May 27, 2021

Painted steel. 64 x 37 x 18 inches

Ann Hamilton
"Back on my Bike"

Embroidery and watercolor on cotton fabric. 6 x 6 inches

Bridget Carey
"Still Life"

Recently included in Shirley Fiterman Art Center digital exhibition.

Acrylic on paper 14 x 17 inches

Jon D'Orazio
"Crystal Mirror" 1

Works I have been concentrating over this past year. Crystal Mirrors are experiential works concerning Pure Perception and Openness.

Media: #20 diamond dust on mirrors. Size 41/2 inches to 16 inches diameter.

Jon D'Orazio
"Crystal Mirror" 2

The are Mirrors in the sense that the Absolute is a Mirror of Vastness, a Cosmic Mirror.

Media: #20 diamond dust on mirrors. Size: 4 1/2 inches to 16 inches diameter.

Jon D' Orazio
Crystal Mirrors various

Earlier CRYSTAL MIRROR works (various shapes) on canvas are up to 75" Diameter.

Viorica Stan

I have been working on a new shapes and colors artwork series during February and March.

All work is Acrylic, Watercolor and Mixed Media on Paper and / or Canvas in various sizes ranging between 12”x17” to 30”x 40”

Viorica Stan

All work was done at my studio at Westbeth Artists Housing.

Viorica Stan

The work explores shapes and colors...

Viorica Stan

...using different media and techniques...

Viorica Stan

...invoking Spring vistas...

Viorica Stan

...and floral motifs.

David Plakke
"Christine P"

The Tribes Project is an ongoing personal endeavor that documents the people within my personal and professional circle in New York City.

David Plakke
"Mai Khoi"

We invite individuals to participate in the project through both stills and by sharing their stories on video. During the video process our subjects alone choose the content of their stories.

David Plakke
"Faten Gaddes"

Whether they involve family, relationships, their professional lives, or their hopes and desires is entirely of their choosing. Some even sing a song.

Olive Ayhens
Work in Progress

Two details of an unfinished oil painting 53"x62" still working on now on this crowd scene in black & white and grays in juxtaposition to the color.

Olive Ayhens
Work in Progress

Two details of an unfinished oil painting 53" x 62" still working on now. My process of working has been comforting and mediative for me during the pandemic.

Olive Ayhens
Work in Progress detail

Detail on a structured.

Oil on canvas

Olive Ayhens
Work in Progress Night

Oil on canvas
2021

Olive Ayhens
"Westside View"

My adjusting to my move to WestBeth during the pandemic.

Watercolor and ink on paper 22 x 31 inches

Mary Ridge
"The A Train"

I was impressed by the social distancing; and the passengers on their cell phones created the finishing touch to the scene, along with the verticals.

This photo recently won the $ 500. Alphaeus Cole Memorial Award 2021 at Salmagundi .

Mary Ridge
"Taking Five on Greenwich Avenue"

The above ground photos show the absence of pedestrians, in two very different types of weather. Cold, with sleet and rain, and on a hot day, when one needed a rest.

2021

Mary Ridge
"Biker on 14th Street"

All photos were taken without my being seen, which is how I prefer to work.

2021

Scott Marshall
"Shawangunk Sunset"

From an on-going series of new work in oil...

Oil/canvas 12 x 22 in., 30.5 x 55.9 cm 2021

Scott Marshall
"Bruyn Lake Autumn"

...based on my original photography

Oil/canvas 14 x 22 in., 35.6 x 55.9 cm 2021

Scott Marshall
"Minnewaska Lake Winter"

..of favorite views and locations in and around Ulster County, New York.

Oil/canvas 14 x 20 in., 35.6 x 50.8 cm 2021

Jean Wolfe
"Installation view of 3 Rod Paintings (Natural/Blue, Natural/Dark Green, Natural/Orange, Natural/Grey & Natural/Yellow)

I'm interested in the creation of subtle order through the use of strong patterns and grids. Exploring grid and geometry in all types of mediums, including paper, canvas, and wood.

All Acrylic on Wood on Wood Panel 20 x 16" 2020

Jean Wolfe
Yellow/Natural Rod Painting "

Currently working with small wooden dowels organized in a grid- like pattern with some irregular cut-outs mounted to wooden panel, and then covered in brightly colored enamel paint.

Acrylic on Wood on Wood Panel 14 x 11" 2021

Jean Wolfe
"Installation view of 5 Rod Paintings (Natural/Blue, Natural/Dark Green, Natural/Orange, Natural/Grey & Natural/Yellow)"

My work carries on from the great minimalist traditions of artists, such as Robert Ryman and Agnes Martin.

All Acrylic on Wood on Wood Panel 14 x 11 2021

Robert Bunkin
"Bill Crist in His Studio"

Part of an on-going series of artists in their studios. Bill is a figurative painter with whom I've worked for about 10 years in his Williamsburg studio.

acrylic on wood panel, 10 x 23 inches, Jan. 2021

Robert Bunkin
"Gary Di Pasquale"

Also part of artists in studio series, Gary is a potter whose work is featured in a new Metropolitan Museum of Art catalogue.

acrylic on wood panel, 12 x 12 inches, March 2021

Robert Bunkin
"Karen Kaapcke by the Window"

Karen is an extraordinary painter, who suffered a bout of Covid, luckily recovered and we're back to painting each other in her Harlem studio.

acrylic on wood panel, 9 1/2 x 16 inches, Jan. 2021

Charles Seplowin
"Global Warming"

This piece is about the threat of global warming with icons of the destruction it is causing.

Foam 23 x 23 x 7 inches
2021

Charles Seplowin
"Green Spiral"

The path of icons (process of aging) with a spiral representing the movement from outer to inner.

Styrofoam 23 x 23 x 9 inches
2021

Charles Seplowin
"Rota Fortunae"

The Goddess of Fortune who turned a wheel to read your future. Money from all over the world, bitcoin, silver and gold in a mandala format for us to contemplate the use of money today.

High density polyurethane foam 23 x 23 x 8 inches
2021

Joan Hall
"Jill's Room 2" and "Jill's Room 3"

Through the use of mirrors, the room appears to change, depending upon the angle with which it is viewed. The viewer can see him/herself in scale reflected in a mirror in the room

Mixed-media construction

Joan Hall
"The Parcel Project"

These are mixed media parcels which I sent to myself from all over the world. The mirror images inside reflect landmarks indigenous to the location. Some examples are the Taj Mahal from India, the Tower of London from England and windmills from Holland.

Mixed-media construction 3' H x 3.5' W x 3" D

Claudia Vargas
"Nancy"

My main concern while painting is bridging the gap between myself and my subject. By carefully observing and subtly depicting the people who sit for me, I hope to translate the experience of our encounter to those who will view my painting.

Oil on linen | 40 x 30 cm - 16 x 12 inches

Claudia Vargas
"Efe"

Recently, I have undertaken a project centered on figurative portraits of women of color. I strive to observe these women from a place of shared experience and depict them respectfully so as to offer a window into their lives, dispositions, and trials.

Oil on linen | 40 x 30 cm - 16 x 12 inches

Claudia Vargas
"Ditiya"

This is my attempt to make them visible on level ground and eschew the extreme invisibility, or spectacle, which they often occupy in wider society.

Oil on linen | 40 x 30 cm - 16 x 12 inches

Susannah Kelly
"Time Out in the Inner Courtyard - party goers at rest because of so much merriment."

From the series "When My City Was Magic".
I have been documenting the various states of abandonment or alteration of storefronts, shops, public spaces, and the riverfront during the pandemic from 2020-2021.
Digital photo collage of Westbeth inner courtyard.

Susannah Kelly
"Learning About the History of this Place - they said we could bring balloons inside."

From the series "When My City Was Magic."
The story is about nature and all it’s representatives wandering the streets of lower Manhattan, observing and considering how to heal what they see.
Digital photo collage of Westbeth small gallery entrance to the lobby.

Susannah Kelly
"The Welcoming Committee - there is a celebration inside, come in. Here, have a balloon."

From the series "When My City was Magic" The Westbeth series brings the animals closer to home, ready to party and celebrate in a time of cultural need.
Digital photo collage of Westbeth's West St entrance.

Ann Hamilton
"Chemo Hat 1"

My sister is going through chemotherapy and is losing her hair. I wanted to make the hats as attractive as possible as its not easy to feel pretty when going through chemo.

Ann Hamilton
"Chemo Hat 2"

The hats are made from fabric from the Westbeth Flea Market and vintage quilt appliqués.

Ann Hamilton
"Chemo Hat 3"

I just learned that the quilt appliqués are called "yo yos". I learn something new every day.

Lucille Rhodes
"Gladys and Herman"

Although Gladys and Herman were divorced when I met them, they still yearned for each other.

Lucille Rhodes
"Lynni and Tammi"

Lynni and Tammi were their daughters.

Lucille Rhodes
"Gladys and her mother, Ada"

Gladys' parents were afraid she would succumb once again to the handsome mountain man who played the dulcimer and sang to her.

Lucille Rhodes
"Ada in the Filed"

When Ada saw Herman's truck cross the creek, she walked to Gladys' house and sat silently on the sofa, arms crossed until he left.

Lucille Rhodes
"Lynni and 'Paw'"

Lynn and her grandfather were very close.

Lucille Rhodes
"The Drinking Gourd"

Irvin carves a drinking gourd for Lynni.

Penny Jones
"Election 2021"

Puppets react to the election.
Mixed media assemblage and installation in my apartment.
Photo: Geoffrey Jones
24 x 30"

Ann Hamilton
"Tulips"

The Tulips was the first piece I worked on using a layer, paint and stitch approach and also using freehand machine embroidery. I also used acrylic paint on textile art for the first time.
9 x 15 inches

Ann Hamilton
"Self Portrait"

This piece uses the same techniques - layering fabrics, machine stitching and acrylic paint.
I am focusing on learning new techniques, a new approach and working with acrylic paint which I find really enjoyable, basically lightening up on my way of working.
14 x 15 inches

Lucille Rhodes
"Fusions"

I started studying Photoshop at the beginning of the epidemic... Here is a subway photo sandwiched with a sunset in Appalachia.

Lucille Rhodes
"Need Coats No Legs"

...and have been experimenting with my cellphone archive going back ten years. Here is a subway photo sandwiched with an iceberg in southern Patagonia.

Lucille Rhodes
"Subway Smile"

This is my subway photo sandwiched with bougainvillea from Mexico,

Stephen Hall
"Looming Loss"

"The thing is I feel the entire planet is precariously in crisis. Now is the time to be specific, not open to interpretation. This painting is about climate change and mass extinctions. Confronting tragedy with screaming beauty."

Acrylic on canvas 72 x 48 inches

Olive Ayhens
"Yellow Brick"

Inspired by outside my window at Westbeth.

22 x 31 inches watercolor

Olive Ayhens
"The Waves Are Coming"

Reflections ...nature taking over. Done in my studio at Dumbo.

Oil on linen 39 x 52 inches

Olive Ayhens
"The Waves Are Coming" (detail)

Working with the boundaries and the blurring of inside outside...

Oil on linen 39 x 52 inches

Barbara Slitkin
"From a Horse's Mouth"

I was preparing for a show and consulting with Lucienne Weinberg. She noticed something that wasn't immediately apparent to me. She saw tongues in my paintings. Clearly that was so.

Ceramic 5 " x 5"

Barbara Slitkin
"New Normal?"

Once aware, I realized there was a pattern in my work of using tongues and mouths. That's how it became a theme of mine intentionally.

Ceramic 5.5" x 4"

Barbara Slitkin
"Keep a Civil Mouth"

I embraced the humor of creating works that whimsically recalled idioms, and such. Ironic how this theme is now ongoing in a time when we are not exposing our mouths in public anymore.

Ceramic 6" H x 9"W x 5'D

Christina Maile
"Blood Shoe"

Completed in September. The things we imagine are not innocent. I was recently accepted into the online artist database of the White Columns Gallery, NYC based on a number of works including this one.
Watercolor 20 x 16 inches 2020

Faten Gaddes
"Shelter in Place- Salammbô"
Postcards from Home series

Inspired by Gustave Flaubert's "Salammbô". A novel about a high priestess of Carthage (present-day Tunesia) caught in the machinations of a war with Rome during the 3rd century.

Faten Gaddes
"Shelter in Place - Salammbô

Inspired by Gustave Flaubert's "Salammbô". Photo taken on Westbeth roof.
Stylists: Hiromitsu Morimoto, Jan Harding.

Joan Roberts Garcia
"Turn in the Road"

This piece took a turn during Covid, as I focused on one area, then the other. It took on an air of uncertainty. Painted from many photos of a country road in Pennsylvania, after a late summer rain. A driveway, at a crook in the road. shining brightly out of the woods. caught my attention- drew me in.
Mixed Media 60 x 48 inches

Ann Hamilton
"Reflection and Healing"

Nov 2020
watercolor 9 x 12 inches

Susan Berger
"Covid 19 Series: Part 1"

The first row (and top piece): people who died during the Covid 19.
The second row of the toll of the Covid 19 pandemic
I use weave stitching, rug hooking, drawings, and wanted to capture the newsprint feeling to actual use of newsprint itself.
66 x 48 x 3-4 inches. 2020. There will be 13 panels.

Olive Ayhens

"The Waves Are Coming"

Oil on linen, 39 x 51 inches
work in progress

Karin Batten
"Mask"

Inspired by having to wear a mask because of Covid-19.
Oilstick, acrylic 12 x 8.5 inches

Karin Batten
"Equality"

This is based on the BLM movement.
Acrylic, collage, magma, oil pastel 40 x 27 inches Oct 2020

Ann Hamilton
"Lighthouse"

A lighthouse set at the end of a small village somewhere in Donegal done by part imagination, part memory. I painted it during the pandemic out of a sense of longing to be there and a feeling of isolation.

watercolor Oct 2020

Christina Maile
"The Owl and the Train"

Covid 19 dreams upon return to NYC
watercolor 20 x 30 inches
September 2020

Ralph Lee

Vote Installation at Westbeth Inner Courtyard Guard Window
(which one is Ralph Lee?)

photo Christina Maile

Faten Gaddes
"Shelter in Place
Postcards from Home"

Diana Jensen
"Fez, Morocco"

From my World Traveler / Shelter at Home installation referencing a vintage travel slide collection.
Aug 2020

Diana Jensen

"Installation of Work"

From my World Traveler / Shelter at Home installation referencing a vintage travel slide collection.
Aug 2020

Diana Jensen

Port au Prince, Trinidad

From omy World Traveler / Shelter at Home installation referencing a vintage travel slide collection.
Aug 2020

Faten Gaddes

"Shelter in Place Project
Postcards from Home"

I want to thank the incredible stylists of the Westbeth Beautification Committee who helped collect and arrange materials from the Flea Market: Halina Warren and Jan Harding.

Joan Hall

"I'm so excited to have BEHIND MY MIND: RHYMES AND COLLAGES, just published and now available on Amazon Books. For a long time I’ve been wanting to combine my poetry with my art. This book is illustrated with surrealistic color collages to accompany my thoughts and feelings in rhyme."

Available at Amazon Books

Christina Maile

"Fruitful"
Pandemic interaction of humans animals and plants.

Watercolor 9 x 13 inches

August 2020

Parviz Mohassel

New printmaking series
Maine
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August 2020

Madlovely and Rolex Rasthasy

produced by Melika Dave

Official audio
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available on Spotify, Apple, Bandcamp, and Soundcloud

Sherry Lane

Pen and ink and Watercolor
11x14
August 15, 2020
From wedding photos.

I drew a caricature for his proposal in Times Square.I was invited to draw at their wedding.
This one is a gift for their 5th Anniversary.

Robert Bunkin

"Bather"

This work was inspired by Rembrandt's "Woman Wading in a River" in the National Gallery, London. One of my all-time favorite paintings by Rembrandt!

Acrylic on canvas
August 2020

Alison Armstrong
New Book published June 2020

The Pen-Ultimate Word: Re-Views & Inter-Views on Literature,
Architecture, & Art. (published June 29, 2020) Paperback

Find it on Amazon!

Robert Bunkin

"Self Portrait During the Covid Epidemic"

acrylic on canvas
14 x10 inches
June 2020

Robert Bunkin

"Lamentation"
This painting is part of a large series of works based on historic sculptures. This one is based on a Pieta by an unknown Dutch sculptor from ca. 1400 in the Cloisters Museum, NYC.

acrylic on canvas
38 x30 inches
July 2020

Mark Feldman

"Elizabeth St Garden"
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Mark Feldman

"Summer Dip"
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Mark Feldman

"Flashlight"
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Ralph Lee
puppeteer and founder of NYC Halloween Parade
Inner Courtyard Reopening
Window Display View 1

Ralph Lee
puppeteer and founder of NYC Halloween Parade
Westbeth Inner Courtyard Reopening
Window Display view 2

Ralph Lee
puppeteer and founder of NYC Halloween Parade
Westbeth Inner Courtyard Reopening
Window Display View 3

Terry Purinton

"The Sun Garden"
Westbeth Bank St Courtyard Garden
July 2020

Terry Purinton

"The Shade Garden"
Westbeth Bank St Courtyard Garden
July 2020

Terry Purinton

The Glade
Westbeth Bank St Courtyard Garden
July 2020

Huguette Martel
"Under Siege"
A personal graphic account of the pandemic
Cover
Oil on canvas, 16 pages plus cover and back page.
May 2020

Huguette Martel
"Under Siege"
A personal graphic account of the pandemic
Page 05
Oil on canvas, 16 pages plus cover and back page.
May 2020

Huguette Martel
"Under Siege"
A personal graphic account of the pandemic.
Page 06
Oil on canvas, 16 pages plus cover and back page.
May 2020

Huguette Martel
"Under Siege"
A personal graphic account of the pandemic
Page 10
Oil on canvas. 16 pages plus cover and back page.
May 2020

Huguette Martel
"Under Siege"
A personal graphic account of the pandemic
Page 13
Oil on canvas. 16 pages plus cover and back page.
May 2020

Huguette Martel
"Under Siege"
A personal graphic account of the pandemic
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Oil on canvas. 16 pages plus cover and back page.
May 2020

Gardeners of Westbeth
Veronica Ryan

Bethune St Box #9

Gardeners of Westbeth
Susan Binet

Bethune St Box #8

Gardeners of Westbeth
Anonymous

Bethune St Box #7

Gardeners of Westbeth
Denise Hurd

Bethune St Box #6

Gardeners of Westbeth
Jennifer Cooke

Bethune St Box #1

Gardeners of Westbeth
Kate Walter

Bank St box

Gardeners of Westbeth
Terry Purinton

Bank St Courtyard center garden

Gardeners of Westbeth
Kate Walter

Bethune St Box #5

Gardeners of Westbeth
Nancy Matthews

Bethune St Box #3

Gardeners of Westbeth
Anne Brody

Bethune St Box #1

Gardeners of Westbeth
Vicky Metcalfe

Bethune St Box #4

Gardeners of Westbeth
Blanka Harper

Courtyard side garden

Mark Feldman

"Even though there will not be a parade, LGBTQ+ Pride is still something to celebrate."

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Griselda Steiner writer

Poem: Blood Sacrifice

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Mourrice Papi multi media

Westbeth logo transformed for Gay Pride Month
June 2020

Faten Gaddes photographer

Postcards From Home series
"For Dolly"

paper flowers, birds in Westbeth hallway

Avri Ohana

"This is part of a new series I am starting titled," Within and In Between.” and for me it reflects the sense of anonymous particles in the air that exist inside and out there.
This paining is no.1 of this series."

size: 64x64
medium: oil on canvas
May 2020

Ann Hamilton mixed media

"My first watercolor in a long time, this is a scene from County Cork where I spent the first five years of my life."

Tamara Wyndham

"Personal Protective Equipment for all Essential Workers"

Acrylic on round canvas, Contact hand print 16 inches diameter
Then scanned into the computer to add text to make a sticker.

Stephen Hall painter

Toothpaste Cannot Go Back into the Tube
80" x 50"
Animation Video and Sound Track by Jerry Quarterly

CLICK image to enlarge video

Jonathan Bauch sculptor

"My latest piece called Paddling— I spent many happy hours paddling on the northern waters of Lake George in upstate N.Y., Moosehead Lake in Maine amongst others."

Front
Metal 17 x 15.1 x 17.5 inches
2020

Jonathan Bauch, sculptor

" I remembered the joy I felt, especially in summer, when paddling in the twilight."

Back
Metal 17, 15.1 x 17.5 inches
2020

Faten Gaddes.

"Postcards from Home series
Pasta and Garlic 1"
May 2020

Faten Gaddes

Postcards from Home series
Pasta and Garlic 2
May 2020

Ann Hamilton mixed media
Brigid Carey. fine arts student

Completion of the 420 medical gowns we volunteered to cut and sew for the Broadway Relief Project formed to provide support for health workers during the Covid 19 crisis,

Completed May 2020

Karin Batten, painter

Unlock My Mind During Covid 19
May 2020

Karin Batten, painter

A Chocolate Delight During Covid 19
May 2020

Elisabeth Condon, painter

"The scroll was begun at MacDowell Colony last Fall."

The scroll is one piece 55 x 252 inches
Section 1
September 2019 - May 2020

Elisabeth Condon, painter

"The autumn palette is surrounded by a lattice slipping out of register creating slivers in the landscape."

Section 2
September 2019 - May 2020

Elisabeth Condon, painter

"I love working big, getting lost in the painting."

Section 3
September 2019 -May 2020

Roger Braimon, mixed media

Provincetown at Oliver Ragusa Stearns

watercolor
12" x 16"
May 24, 2020

Diana Jensen, painter
"During the quarantine this idea for an installation came to me. World Traveler/Shelter at Home. Vernacular photography inspires my art making. A few years ago a friend gave me 27 boxes of slides found in an Asbury Park thrift store.

Untitled
Oil on Mylar
May 2020

Diana Jensen painter

"These images documented one person's World Travels. I felt this was the time to immerse myself - painting images of far flung adventures as I shelter at home."

Untitled
Oil on Mylar
May 2020

Olive Ayhens, painter.

"These are from out my new window here at West Beth. It has been a good way to settle in as it's been two & a half months."

Untitled watercolour
May 2020

Olive Ayhens, painter

Untitled watercolour
May 2020

Olive Ayhens, painter

Untitled watercolor
May 2020

Parviz Mohassel, painter.

"Automatisim, Automatic paintings on canvas with Cadmium Red, Mars Black, Cadmium White and Black spay paint...world of abstraction breaking loose from concepts."

Paintings done on 11 May 2020

Faten Gaddes photographer.

"It Is Raining Inside " Part of the continuing series - Postcards from Home.

Photo: May 2020

Jonathan Bauch "Steel House"
Work in progress.

"Steel House is an abstraction of a fantasy— a residential luxury apartment tower. Created to draw attention to the housing crises in affordable housing in big cities like New York. It is part of a series that I started in 2019, but the show was postponed to January 2021. The concept won a grant from LMCC."

Front view
Metal
6 x 24 x 38.5 inches

Jonathan Bauch "Steel House"
Work in progress.
Back view
Metal
6 x 24 x 38.5 inches

Jonathan Bauch "Steel House Work in progress
3/4 view
Metal
6 x 24 x 38.5 inches

Robert Bunkin "The Shut In Series - Painting 1"

A series of 7 paintings of my wife, Jenny Tango.
March - May 2020
acrylic on canvas 10 x 10 inches

Robert Bunkin "The Shut In Series - Painting 7"

A series of 7 paintings of my wife, Jenny Tango.
March - May 2020
acrylic on canvas 10 x 10 inches

Robert Bunkin "The Shut In Series -
Painting 6" A series of 7 paintings of my wife, Jenny Tango.
March - May 2020
acrylic on canvas 10 x 10 inches

Carolyn Virgil. "Studio Space 2020".

"This is the 3rd and final painting of the series. Not sure what I will paint next. I may do the Hudson River based on sketches I did some time ago. "

Elisabeth Condon painter

Work in Progress Quarantine. "Right now, I am working on a scroll combining wallpaper elements, pours of paint, and a lattice pattern, creating a topgography of visual information."

David Plakke photographer.

"I've been photographing non-stop." To see more of David's work, visit his website: Tribesnyc.com

To read an excerpt from his work in progress Charting My Lifetime by Girlfriends, Loves and Misses, scroll down past the images.

Nancy Gabor, actor, director, teacher.

Nancy wrote this very short play, MISSING, as part of Westbeth's Stories Around the Table. Scroll down to below images and click on Nancy's file to read the play.

Charles Seplowin, sculptor

"My pieces are mandalas symbolizing the experiences and observations I have encountered in my life. This sculpture is a mandala about global warming. I use the icons pertaining to global warming in the media and in history as templates for shapes I can then assemble." Styrofoam sculpture in progress, to be painted.

Carolyn Virgil, painter.
" I just finished this second painting of my studio. While I worked on it I was thinking about how this represents all I can see at this moment while being isolated. So I am both creating and confined. "

Gayle Kirschenbaum, photographer, filmmaker.

"Grateful for many things including living in Westbeth. Went out onto our roof to get some fresh air and enjoyed
the sunset."

Ellen Alexander Conley is a NY Times reviewed author of 5 novels and I non-fiction book. Scroll down past the images, and read her in-progress work, "Angels on the Third Floor Door."

Olive Ayhens, painter.

"A completed watercolor study for a commissioned painting of a view from the El Dorado."

Carolyn Virgil, painter. "Painting of my Studio During Coronavirus".

Being an artist during this isolation is helpful, being able to create. I finished the painting today (I think) Acrylic on canvas board. April 15 2020

Robert Bunkin, painter.

" I just finished this small painting today, part of a "Shut-In" Series.
The portrait is of my wife, painter Jenny Tango. " April 18, 2020
10 x 10 inches, acrylic on canvas.

Sherry Lane, painter.

This painted child’s chair ws to be auctioned at fundraiser for the Jericho Arts Council and Canoe Regatta. Now postponed. Back and arms are in the shape of canoe paddles.

Beverly Brodsky "Being Form" These are internal and external elements in nature. I normally work large scale but these smaller works on wood panels, I started during our crisis(the corona virus). These panels have consumed me. I won't stop until I reach 100 panels.

Mindy Belloff, printmaker.

"A Glimmer of Hope". photo taken at Abingdon Sq Park, NYC on April 12, 2020

Vinod Dave, painter, and his daughter Melika Dave, painter and musician, working on their first piece together inside their apartment. April 2020. (Click on image to play video)

Masks made by Susan Binet Westbeth Corp, Boardmember, Free handmade masks distributed to tenants, sponsored by Westbeth Beautification Commiittee

Masks made by by Jan Leslie Harding, actor and sculptor. White mask to color in your own design. Free handmade masks distributed to tenants, sponsored by Westbeth Beautification Committee

Phantom of the Opera masks made by Ann Hamilton, textile fine arts designer. Free handmade masks distributed to tenants sponsored by Westbeth Beautification Committee