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Westwood Gallery Contemporary art gallery in New York City's Bowery Art District.

WESTWOOD GALLERY, established in 1995 in NYC, focuses on contemporary artists from the 1960s through today, including downtown artists, Bowery Arts District, historic photography, and secondary market artwork. Other projects include an award-winning documentary environmental film, site-specific installations, international art collaborations, museum loans and non-profit philanthropic activities. The gallery also has a research, archive and book publishing division to preserve artist estates and their legacy. Westwood Gallery artists are represented in the permanent collections of MoMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Smithsonian, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, PS1, Walker Art Center, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and other national and international institutions.
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10/13/2026

Nobuho Nagasawa is among "10 Japanese Women Artists You Should Know" featured in Yuki Sumner's editorial for

Find a link to the full article on westwoodgallery.com 🔗

10/08/2026

Which fabrics do you recognize?

In Danny Simmons’ mixed-media works, barkcloth forms a foundational layer—connecting contemporary abstraction with one of the world’s oldest textile traditions.

Simmons incorporates barkcloths from distinct cultural traditions around the world into his compositions, bringing together materials with deep histories of place, process, and use.

The result is a layered visual language rooted in an ancestral, cross-cultural relationship to material.

Eva Hesse (1936–1970) developed a radically original approach to sculpture from her studio on the Bowery in New York.Wor...
10/06/2026

Eva Hesse (1936–1970) developed a radically original approach to sculpture from her studio on the Bowery in New York.

Working with materials such as latex, fiberglass, and rope, Hesse challenged the geometric order of Minimalism, embracing irregularity, repetition, and the tension between structure and fragility. Her work introduced a deeply personal, tactile dimension to sculpture that helped shape the emergence of Post-Minimalism.

Though her career was brief, Hesse’s influence continues to resonate. Her time on the Bowery also forms part of the neighborhood’s rich artistic history, which Westwood Gallery NYC explores through our ‘Artists on the Bowery’ exhibition series.

01./ Eva Hesse preparing her Bowery studio for photographer Gretchen Lambert, 1966
Photo: Gretchen Lambert
02./ Eva Hesse at her working table at her 134 Bowery studio.
Photo courtesy of Hesse estate.
03./ Eva Hesse, Repetition Nineteen II, 1968
Fiberglass and polyester resin, nineteen units
© 2026 Estate of Eva Hesse. Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich.
In the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

10/03/2026

Artist Danny Simmons understood that materials have histories of their own.

By incorporating fabrics like African wax print into his abstract paintings, he created works in which visual form and cultural memory are inseparable.

Danny Simmons: The Journey of Spirit
🗓️on view through November 7, 2026

10/01/2026

What does the dot mean to artist Danny Simmons? 🔴

Many abstract expressionist artists have used circles and organic forms to challenge the rigid geometry of modernism, with an emphasis on nature and individuality. For Simmons, however, repetition becomes a way of suggesting continuity, linking the individual mark to something larger than itself.

This is characteristic of Simmons’ broader approach: familiar visual elements are taken out of their conventional context and given new meaning within an abstract composition.

His achievement was not to reproduce traditional motifs, but to transform them into the building blocks of a contemporary visual language.

🗓️'Danny Simmons: The Journey of Spirit' is on view through November 7, 2026

09/29/2026

Danny Simmons, We Shall Not Be Moved (2025)
oil and fabric on bark cloth

on view through November 7, 2026
in Danny Simmons: The Journey of Spirit

09/25/2026

How Danny Simmons' paintings communicate without telling us what to see 🧩

Danny Simmons uses textiles and symbols to convey a sense of ineffable connection to African heritage without resorting to representational interpretation. Black figures, peeking through lace, refuse the viewer's scrutiny and control how much we are allowed to see and know.

Danny Simmons: The Journey of Spirit
🗓️ on view through November 7, 2026

09/23/2026

Bring the exhibition home with a catalogue, published by Westwood Gallery NYC 📚

Featuring artwork images, installation views, as well as texts about the artist and his ongoing MTA Arts & Design mega-project, the exhibition catalogue for 'Danny Simmons: Journey of Spirit' is available for purchase at the gallery for $40 (plus tax).

🗓️ The exhibition is on view through November 7, 2026

09/19/2026

13 years ago, Danny Simmons and Brian Tate created a project to bring attention and visibility to New York City artists.

Westwood Gallery NYC exhibited artworks by 25 artists chosen from hundreds of artist submissions from across the 5 boroughs as part of their program entitled Curate NYC.

This year, Simmons’ work will continue to give back to the community through a permanent public installation commissioned by MTA Arts & Design in Jamaica, Queens.

Danny Simmons: The Journey of Spirit
on view through November 7, 2026

09/17/2026

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Danny Simmons: The Journey of Spirit
on view now through November 7, 2026

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262 Bowery
New York, NY
10012

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm

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