Westbeth Gallery Announces 2024 Exhibitions

From solo shows to group shows, monthly exhibitions will spotlight a myriad of both Westbeth artists and local creatives

The Westbeth Gallery, a non-profit fine arts gallery located within Westbeth Artists Housing in the West Village, today unveiled its 2024 exhibition line-up. Every year the Westbeth Gallery hosts monthly public art exhibitions showcasing a multitude of artists, including Westbeth residents. The 2024 season has something for every type of art lover, including solo and group shows spotlighting a wide range of mediums. Visitors are sure to be wowed by the original displays from some of the city’s most talented creatives. 

“We are excited to kick-off our 2024 gallery season with a diverse group of artists and exhibitions originating from artists who live here at Westbeth to artists from around the world,” said Peter Madden, Executive Director of Westbeth Artists Housing. “Westbeth is a tight knit community that celebrates and spotlights our talented artists and the Westbeth Gallery is the ideal place for visitors to get a chance to enjoy their original works and creations.”

“The Westbeth Gallery continues to champion diversity by displaying international group shows with strong connections to local institutions that spotlight relevant issues in contemporary art from up and coming artists and established creatives,” said Valérie Hallier, Director of the Westbeth Gallery. “We look forward to continuing our work as an inclusive gallery that helps support local and Westbeth creatives and provides an inspiring space for the art community at large to display their works in a unique and historical setting right here in the West Village.”

The gallery, which is operated by the Westbeth Artists Residents Council, has a unique role in the art community of New York City by showcasing the work of professional artists who live in Westbeth, as well as presenting the work of artists and curators from outside Westbeth, national and international, through an annual call for proposals. The Westbeth Gallery is open Wednesday through Sunday from 1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

Schedule of Exhibitions:

WOMEN ON THE VERGE – March 6 – March 23, 2024 

Curated by Susan Salinger & Kathy Brew 

Artist Reception and Opening: Wednesday, March 6, 6-8 PM 

Acoustic funk/ jazz music and dance performance: Thursday, March 14, 7-8:30 pm

“Women in the art world continue to be woefully underrepresented (women accounted for around 3.3 percent of all auction sales between 2008 and mid-2022) and made less money than their male counterparts.” – featured artist and curator Kathy Brew. 

Featured Artists: Kathy Brew, Kabuya Pamela Bowens-Saffo, Yoshiko Chuma, Martha Edelheit, Michelle Handelman, Julia Heyward, Jennifer Jazz, Pamela Lawton, Stefani Mar, Aline Mare, Lucia Minervini, Helen Oji, Janet Panetta, Melinda Ring, Felice Rosser, Lynne Sachs, Susan Salinger, MM Serra, Rebecca Shapass, Pamela Sneed, Claire Watson, Lila Zemborain.

The29.art is a collective of over 30 painters, sculptors, dancers, filmmakers, writers, poets, performance artists, directors, and critics celebrating Women’s Month. 

Performances by Yoshiko Chuma, Melinda Ring, and Felice Rosser, readings by Pamela Sneed and Lila Zemborain, plus artists’ talks will happen during the group show. 

WHEN MIND LEAVES THE BODY – April 3 – April 24, 2024 

Artist Reception and Opening: Wednesday, April 3, 6-9 PM

Exhibition Walkthrough with the artists: Saturday, April 6th, 2:00 PM

Panel Discussion: Wednesday, April 17th, 7:00 PM 

Closing Reception: Sunday, April 21st, 5:00 to 7:00 PM

There will be an online catalog with essay by Paul D’Agostino

Featured Artists: Elisabeth Condon, Susan Luss, Alyse Rosner (Westbeth). 

Mind 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.

2023/2024 Whitney ISP Studio and CURATORIAL EXHIBITION(S) – April 29 – May 26, 2024 

Curated by Gregg Bordowitz, Whitney ISP

Two group shows, presenting our newly moved in neighbor, The Whitney ISP studio and curatorial practices. The Independent Study Program (ISP) consists of three interrelated parts: Studio Program, Critical Studies Program, and Curatorial Program. The ISP provides a setting within which students pursuing art practice, curatorial work, art historical scholarship, and critical writing engage in ongoing discussions and debates that examine the historical, social, and intellectual conditions of artistic production. The program encourages the theoretical and critical study of the practices, institutions, and discourses that constitute the field of culture. 

Rutgers in New York – June 1 – June 21, 2024

Group show featuring Rutgers’ MFA student’s work.

Artist Reception and Opening: Saturday, June 1st, 2024, 6-8 PM in Westbeth courtyard.

Featured artists: A group exhibition featuring works by Sandra SK Amoabeng, Ang Bidak, Alfred Dudley III, Em Gallagher,  Andrew Kennedy, Kabi Raj Lama, Maisie Luo, Justin Nalley,  Nick Newlin, Adi Blaustein Rejtö, Maura Torres, Anton Varga. Artists are graduates of the 2024 MFA program in Visual Arts from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. 

WEST SIDE EXPOSURE: WHITNEY STAFF – June 28 – July 22, 2024 

This recurring annual group show presents the Whitney museum’s staff selection of artworks. 

The Whitney Staff Art Show—an exhibition that celebrates and showcases the many artists who work at the Whitney Museum of American Art—will take place at Westbeth Gallery in July 2024. The seventh iteration of the free exhibition will highlight dozens of works created by staff members from all divisions of the Whitney and deepen already-strong connections between the neighborhood, the artistic community, and the Museum. For more information, please visit whitney.org or join our newsletter at whitney.org/newsletter.

“ESKFF // GALLERI RAMFJORD – A TRIBUTE”- July 26 – August 19, 2024 

Curated by Elisabeth Ramfjord

Celebrating a 10 year long collaboration, highlighting works from artists in residency programs at ESKFF over the years.

The 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. 

ART LIVES HERE: WESTBETH – August 27 – September 17, 2024 

Co-curators Connie Lee, Karen Fitzgerald, Alison Cuomo 

Artist Reception and Opening: Tuesday, August 27, 2024, 5:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. 

Featured Artists: Heather Cox, Salem Kreiger, Roberta Fineberg, Jose Soto, Jacqueline Rada, Jacqueline Herranz Brooks, Michael Wolf, Mel Smothers, Jorge Luis Rodriguez, Karin Bruckner, Susan Luss, Carol Paik, Pauline Galiana, Hollie Heller, Mija Jung, Alison Causer, Emily Stedman, Gale Rothstein, Yael Dresdner, Cheryl Aden, Rima Grad, Ellen Weider, Susan Stair, Elan Cadiz, Carol Bouyoucos, Eileen Hoffman, Yvonne Lamar Rogers, Capucine Bourcart. 

Art Lives Here: Westbeth, is an exhibition featuring the collaborating artist members of Art Lives Here, Inc. curated by founder and chief curator Connie Lee. The show will present medium to large scale paintings, fiber art and mixed media artworks. Art Lives Here is known for nurturing and thriving arts community and providing access to art for a broad constituency. We will host a performance by artist Susan Luss, a weekly fiber art workshop, artist talks and our signature Third Thursday event which brings together artists, arts professionals and collectors once a month since October 2021. 

UP CLOSE FROM AFAR – September 22 – October 16, 2024 

Curated by Valérie Hallier 

Artist Reception and Opening: Friday, September 27, 2024, 6-8 PM

Featured Artists: Khaila Batts, Nell Breyer, Alex W. Rader, Sandra Cavanagh, Honglei_Li, Allan Gorman, Pauline Galiana, Kelly Boehmer, Teena Soni, Rina Dweck, Marie Chloé Duval.

The group exhibition explores eclectic artistic perspectives on our contemporary moment in the West. Through an array of mediums from painting to sculpture and installation, artists from Asia, Europe and from within the United States, offer detailed views from their multicultural perspectives on contemporary existentialism. 

Global Art Project presents CrossingBorders: WE ARE ALL IMMIGRANTS – October 24 – November 14, 2024 

Curated by Carl Heyward 

Artist Reception and Opening: October 24, 2024, 6 pm-8 pm

Featured Artists: Carl Heyward, Akiko Suzuki, Macha Melanie, Nancy Hom, Celine Ka, Sian Price Monica Lisi, Teri Dryden, Elise Marshall, Isabel Ruiz Perdiguero, Mikel Frank, Carol Heft Diego Rios, Sandee Johnson, Leslie Alcott, David Jenowe, Brian Auerbach Bea Last, Diane Williams, Lena Bartua Herbert Siguenza, Alvaro Sanchez, Madeleine Wories Glen Rogers, Massimo Nota, Mia Chambers, Helene Ofwestrom, Naomi Middelmann, Emmanuel C Montoya.

An exhibition of works by members of GLOBAL ART PROJECT, an international multimedia collaborative collective with over 80 members operating 17 different countries.

Exhibition concept: The Borders are wide, various, concrete and philosophical all offering an illusion of safety and definitive organization of reality ignoring the shifts in need and agendas at play at any given moment in time be it on the international stage or the personal internal platform.

While an obvious way to look at Borders is as it relates to geographic demarcation and with its socio-political ramifications, however, the artists in this exhibition take it one step further citing  Borders that confound and limit us personally; Borders to be psychologically challenged, broken through and/or accepted.

The artists in this exhibition are familiar with Borders and how it manifests in their lives as creative human beings. Emphasis must be given to the importance and timeliness of this exhibition as an outlet for frustration and anxiety as artists attempt to illustrate, enact and represent both change and consciousness raising on a world-wide scale as well as on a personal level in a time when systems are seemingly breaking down in regard to personal expression and freedom.

GLOBAL ART PROJECT (GAP) a collaborative collective of 80 working artists in 17 countries since 2013 presents painting, collage, sculpture, fiberworks, photography, movement, film-video, audio. Artist / curators Ron Weijers (10dence Gallery The Netherlands) and Carl Heyward (GAP) who developed the initial CrossingBorders exhibitions in Belgium at Campo Santo in Ghent (2019) then the Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery in the SF Bay Area, (2020). CrossingBorders has evolved as world conditions have intensified into WE ARE ALL IMMIGRANTS (Palazzo Turrisi- Palumbo, Lecce, Italy May 2023) reflecting the tensions and backlash as well as the compassion and support evidenced in the rise of severe immigration laws that limit movement and inclusion and has resulted in the loss of hundreds of lives at sea as well as solidarity and pointed acts of defiance as much of the globe moves toward more restrictive zenophobic nationalistic policies.

WESTBETH WINTER SHOW 2024 – November 19 – December 28, 2024 

This yearly group show celebrates all Westbeth’s visual artists, presenting in one show around 90 different practices through one artwork.

About Westbeth

Founded in 1970, Westbeth Artists Housing is a nonprofit housing and commercial complex dedicated to providing affordable living and working space for artists and arts organizations in New York City. The Richard Meier-designed complex located on West and Bethune Streets in the heart of the West Village has provided 383 units of affordable housing and studio space since it opened 52 years ago. Over the course of its history, Westbeth has been home to a number of influential artists, musicians and performers, and played an important role in supporting and sustaining the creative community in New York and beyond.