Westwood Gallery

07/25/2024

Boris Lurie (1924-2008) dares you to “quench your thirst” for domestic paradise and conspicuous consumption in his frenzied collage from 1962.

Lurie's fascination with female archetypes is evident in his collages utilizing images of women who defy “traditional” gender roles like 'pin-ups’ or models in 'girlie magazines.' “Quench Your Thirst” (1962) distinctly points to the insidious objectification of women within the domestic realm. Populated with repeating images of girls in white dresses, women on the beach, and 1960s hairstyles, the piece casts a critical eye on the idealized expectations placed on women within patriarchal society.

On view until July 27 at “Boris Lurie: 100 Years,” curated by James Cavello.

Boris Lurie, “Quench Your Thirst” (1962), acrylic paint and transfer on canvas, 68 1/2 x 42 1/4 inches | 174.0 x 107.3 cm

© Boris Lurie Art Foundation, Photo: Boris Lurie Art Foundation

07/24/2024

Fueled by both emotional trauma and immense courage, Boris Lurie (1924-2008) used art as a vehicle to reassert his voice and to restore a human presence within an increasingly desensitized society.

In 1947, one year after emigrating to the US, Lurie began his “Dismembered Women” series. In these twisted limbs and contorted postures, Lurie captures an essence of beauty and character that is utterly raw and uncensored. Several paintings from this series are included in “Boris Lurie: 100 Years,” the centennial exhibition curated by James Cavello.

“Boris Lurie: 100 Years” will be on view through July 27.

01./ Installation View, “Boris Lurie: 100 Years,” Westwood Gallery NYC, 2024
02-04./ Boris Lurie, “Dismembered Woman” (1955), oil on canvas, 35 x 44 inches | 88.9 x 111.8 cm
05-07./ Boris Lurie, “Three Women” (1949), oil on canvas, 29 x 36 inches | 73.7 x 91.4 cm
© Boris Lurie Art Foundation, Courtesy the Boris Lurie Art Foundation.

07/19/2024

While the New York City art scene of the early 60s revolved around established abstract expressionists and emerging Pop artists, Boris Lurie, and fellow NO!Art artists Sam Goodman and Stanley Fisher, were creating omething radically different. Seeking to restore a sense of human presence within an increasingly detached art world, the trio founded NO!Art – a movement that confronted the social issues that other artists shied away from.

Lurie’s NO!Art pieces, collages of printmaking, painting, and found photography, were characterized by their denouncements of racism, imperialism, capitalism, and sexism. Embedded within these critiques, however, is the hopeful message that change is possible.

One of the paintings on view in "Boris Lurie: 100 Years," curated by James Cavello, is “Memo to the U.S. [Hairdos]” (1963) – a monumental 16-foot canvas, never-before-exhibited in the United States.

During Lurie's lifetime, this work was shown in Paris at a happening organized by Jean-Jacques Lebel, and viewed by both Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, who were photographed seated in front of it by Pablo Volta.

Boris Lurie, Memo to the U.S. [Hairdos] (1963)
paint and paper collage mounted on canvas
62 x 195 inches | 157.5 x 495.3 cm
© Boris Lurie Art Foundation

01./ Installation View, "Memo to the U.S. [Hairdos]" (1963), Westwood Gallery NYC, 2024
02./ Installation View, "Memo to the U.S. [Hairdos]" (1963), Westwood Gallery NYC, 2024
03./ Detail view, "Memo to the U.S. [Hairdos]" (1963)
04./ Photograph by Pablo Volta, Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray at a happening organised by Jean-Jacques Lebel in front of Boris Lurie’s collage, 1965. Courtesy the Boris Lurie Art Foundation.

07/18/2024

Happy 100th Birthday to Boris Lurie (1924-2008)!

Boris Lurie: 100 Years, curated by James Cavello, an anniversary celebration of Boris Lurie's artwork and life opens tonight at Westwood Gallery NYC.

The anniversary exhibition, the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, will include over 30 paintings, collages, and works on paper from 1945-1972 by Boris Lurie (1924-2008), co-founder of the NO!art movement.

The exhibition will be on view through July 27, 2024.

07/10/2024

Carmen Cicero (b.1926) is an American artist who has been creating vibrant, figurative paintings for over six decades.

Originally from New Jersey, Cicero moved into his loft on the Bowery in 1971 after a catastrophic fire destroyed his Englewood, NJ studio and his entire body of early abstract expressionist work. As he moved studios, his style underwent a dramatic shift. While his early works were characterized by abstraction and automatic drawings inspired by memories, Cicero began rendering cartoon-like figures to depict states of mind rather than concrete scenes.

Cicero’s paintings are heavily influenced by his early years as an Abstract Expressionist, his studies under Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell, and his artistic circle of artists, poets, and jazz musicians.

On view are two watercolors by Carmen Cicero. Despite being made over 30 years apart, both works capture a unique sense of urban living through their expressive figures and surrealist settings.

Loft Law: Photographs by Joshua Charow," curated by James Cavello, is on view until July 13!

01./ Carmen Cicero, Looney Tunes (2023), watercolor on paper, 15.5 x 20 inches | 39.3 x 50.8 cm
02./ Carmen Cicero, Two Ladies (1989), watercolor on paper, 22 x 30 inches | 55.9 x 76.2 cm
03./ Photograph by Joshua Charow, Carmen Cicero in his Bowery Loft (2023), archival pigment print on Canson Platine paper

07/09/2024

Join us tomorrow evening for a ticketed, in-person talk with documentary photographer and filmmaker Joshua Charow and Lower Manhattan Loft Tenants co-founder Chuck DeLaney.

Chuck DeLaney is a photographer and was one of the co-founders of the Lower Manhattan Loft Tenants group. As a co-founder of the organization, DeLaney was directly involved in lobbying on behalf of artists for Article 7-C, otherwise known as the Loft Law. DeLaney himself has resided in his loft in South Street Seaport since 1975.

The Gallery Talk is on the occasion of the exhibition Loft Law: Photographs by Joshua Charow, the first solo exhibition for New York-based documentary photographer and filmmaker Joshua Charow (b. 1998), curated by James Cavello.

Gallery Talk, 6:00 - 7:00 PM
Book Signing, 7:00 - 7:30 PM
Doors open at 5:30 PM

$10

Find the link to purchase tickets in our bio!

01./ Loft Law Books in the Gallery. Photo by Westwood Gallery NYC.
02./ Photograph by Joshua Charow. Chuck DeLaney in his Financial District Loft, 2023. Printed 2024.

07/05/2024

Thank you to Zachary Ginsberg .ginsberg and Apollo Magazine for the new review of Loft Law: Photographs by Joshua Charow, curated by James Cavello!

Loft Law is on view for one more week, through Saturday July 13th.

"Charow’s photographs often take a wide-angle view of these spaces with their inhabitants seated in the centre. Aside from the baseline construction – tall ceilings, massive central spaces, support columns and wooden floors – the lofts are all built and inhabited differently. Some are wide open; others are crowded with canvases so precariously stacked that one wrong turn could bring them all down...
The spaces are direct extensions of the creative practices of the people who live in them. Steve Silver painted his floors with rainbow grid patterns resembling his paintings and sculptures of the same style, some of which are displayed alongside Charow’s photos at Westwood Gallery. "
- Zachary Ginsberg, Apollo Magazine

02./ Photograph by Joshua Charow. Anne Mason in her Little Italy Loft, 2023.
03./ Photograph by Joshua Charow. Joe Haske in his Hudson Square Loft, 2022.
04./ Photograph by Joshua Charow. Carmen Cicero in his Bowery Loft, 2023.
05./ Photograph by Joshua Charow. Curtis Mitchell in his Dumbo Loft, 2023.

06/25/2024

We are very pleased to announce Steve Silver's solo exhibition opening Winter 2024!

Bronx-born painter Steve Silver has been creating abstract artworks for over four decades. His first exhibition in NY was at OK Harris Gallery and has had exhibitions in Mexico, Germany, and Spain.

Steve's work follows in the footsteps of the minimal art movement established in New York City in the 1960s and 70s. His practice integrates his heavy inspiration from poetry and literature, creating works that at their core are a riff of reality with their color, form, texture, and space.

The work of Rumi, poet Wallace Stevens, and symbols related to the labyrinth, languages, and pictorial systems infiltrate his thinking and artwork.

Many of these themes follow with his series titles, like "And The Key is Turned" (2009), coming from W.B. Yeats' Meditations in Times of Civil War, where Yeats writes: "We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty."

01./ James Cavello and Steve Silver in Silver's Williamsburg Loft, 2024. Photo by Westwood Gallery NYC.
02./ Studio View and Steve Silver, "Color at the Speed of Light: Albert" (1991-97), acrylic on polystyrene on wood, 126 x 162 x 5 inches
03./ Detail of "Color at the Speed of Light: Albert" (1991-97)
04-05./ Steve Silver, "Sentinels" (2006), acrylic on Arches Cover mounted on wood, 8 x 25 feet
06-07./ Steve Silver, "And The Key Is Turned #4" (2009), acrylic and interference acrylic on MDF, 45 x 45 x 1 inches

06/17/2024

Two more new press articles for Loft Law: Photographs by Joshua Charow, curated by James Cavello! Thank you to Kyle Almond and Hugo Lindgreen !

https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2024/06/style/nyc-artist-lofts-cnnphotos/

https://www.ft.com/content/a8e101a9-9634-405f-b9c6-7a67905798d0

Also we're excited to announce that Loft Law has been extended two more weeks -- now through July 13th!

“This isn’t just a thing of New York’s past. This is the present. You can walk down the street and look at a window and you might see (an artist), and they’re still working and they’re still making their paintings and sculptures. I think it’s a beautiful part of our city, that this exists. It took a lot of resilience and ingenuity to stay in these spaces.”
- Joshua Charow, CNN Style

"Working off a list of addresses he found online, [Charow] started pressing buzzers. By this time, of course, the moratorium on Brooklyn has long since lapsed. Artists had infiltrated every old industrial quarter of the city. Most of them had been living there quietly for decades, diligently pursuing their singular visions while the city around them turned into something unrecognisable from the one they had arrived in decades previously."
- Hugo Lindgreen, The Financial Times

What can be learnt from the pioneers who turned abandoned lofts into the creative heart of the city?

06/15/2024

Kimiko Fujimura (b. 1932) is a Japanese-American painter who has created works for over sixty years.

In 1965, Fujimura was selected as one of “Japan’s Top 5 Female Painters in Contemporary Art” by Geijutsu-Shincho, a Japanese monthly art magazine. She moved to New York City in 1968. Fujimura has participated in the historic Women Choose Women (1973) exhibition at the New York Cultural Center, the annual Contemporary Reflections (1973) exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT, and numerous solo and group exhibition in New York and Tokyo galleries. She has completed public and private murals for the Roseland Ballroom, Giorgio Armani’s Milan residence, and recently the Louis Vuitton, Ginza Namikidori Store, Tokyo in 2021.

On view is Fujimura’s “Party - 3 (Party at Peter’s)” (1990) from her ‘Memories’ series of a dinner party at the home of her longtime patron and friend, architect Peter Marino. Fujimura is seated in the lower center of the table, surrounded by the expressive individuals of the downtown art scene.

Stay tuned for news about Kimiko Fujimura's solo exhibition at Westwood Gallery this September 2024!

1/ Kimiko Fujimura, Party - 3 (Party at Peter’s),1990
oil on canvas, signed
36 x 28 inches | 91.4 x 71.1 cm

2-3/ Photograph by Joshua Charow. Kimiko Fujimura in her Chinatown Loft, 2023. Printed 2024.
archival pigment print on Canson Platine paper
Image Size: 12 x 18 inches | 30.5 x 45.7 cm
Paper Size: 16 x 20 inches | 40.6 x 50.8 cm
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs

06/05/2024

Two new press articles for Loft Law: Photographs by Joshua Charow!

"The stillness of the archival pigment prints allows for continuing scrutiny, as distinct from the frequent one-second cuts Charow uses in his videos. This is a shrinking community of artists, all of whom have occupied their loft spaces for as long as sixty years. The law that undergirds the lives they live will expire once the last of them have passed away ... Charow could have focused even more directly on the attributes of portraiture, but he brings forth another aspect of his attentiveness in the ways he documents the stuff in these spaces."
- Buzz Spector, Brooklyn Rail

"Documentary film-maker and photographer Joshua Charow sought out the creatives still inhabiting New York’s former industrial spaces - factories, warehouses and theatres – as the last of the art scene holds out against gentrification. The introduction of the “loft law” in 1982 gave legal protection and rent stabilization to people living in non-residental buildings."
- Sarah Gilbert, The Guardian

The exhibition is on view through June 29th, and includes artwork by eleven artists featured in his photographs: Carmen Cicero, Loretta Dunkelman, Betsy Kaufman, Kimiko Fujimura, Joseph Marioni, Carolyn Oberst, Marsha Pels, Gilda Pervin, Steve Silver, Mike Sullivan, and Jeff Way.

06/02/2024

Loft Law: Photographs by Joshua Charow is on view through June 29 and includes works by eleven of the artists featured in the photographs.

The gallery and the photographer are donating 20% of the proceeds from the sale of photographs in the exhibition to the individuals depicted in the photograph – our way of giving back to support NYC’s artist community.

If you are interested in acquiring a photograph, send us a DM or email through the link in our bio.

Loft Law: Photographs by Joshua Charow | Installation Views
Westwood Gallery NYC, New York, 2024.
Photo: Westwood Gallery NYC

06/01/2024

Curtis Mitchell is an American artist who has lived in the mechanical penthouse of a Dumbo ice cream factory since the 1980s.

His loft has soaring 36-foot ceilings and factory windows that wrap the top half of the walls, providing the ideal live/work environment for his sculpture, video and constructed photography work.

“In ten months of searching [for a loft], I never saw a place with 36-foot ceilings. There were none of the walls [that are] here. When I first walked in, it was very rough. On the other hand, it was completely open. There was no stairway up to the second floor of the loft. You had to go through the building stairway, outside to the roof, to come inside. It looked just like a dream. To me, it still is a dream.”
- Curtis Mitchell

01. Photographs by Joshua Charow, Curtis Mitchell in his Dumbo Loft, Printed 2024.
archival pigment print on Canson Platine paper
Image Size: 12 x 18 inches | 30.5 x 45.7 cm
Paper Size: 16 x 20 inches | 40.6 x 50.8 cm
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist’s proofs

05/31/2024

Bronx-born painter Steve Silver has lived in his Williamsburg loft since 1979 and filled every square inch overflowing with art.

Alongside his photographs by Joshua Charow is a unique painted installation “Primary School 105” (2014) comprised of sixteen 7.5 x 7.5 x 7.5 inches cubes. Each cube has five sides with nine unique paintings created by first laying a primary color as a base, then swiping over the section with an interference color until Silver composes an abstract landscape. The title of the series comes from childhood memories of playing with blocks in grade school, a universal experience of our beginning years learning how to interpret shape and color.

The work is available as a singular cube or multiple cubes to form a curated installation.

Joshua Charow photographed Steve in his loft and the resulting image made the cover of the book, Loft Law: Photographs by Joshua Charow, published by Damiani Books. The book is sold out, but in its second printing, with high demand for orders throughout the world.

Congratulations to Joshua Charow and all the participating artists in telling this important story of artists living under the Loft Law in NYC.

01. Steve Silver, Primary School 105 (2014), sixteen acrylic on MDF cubes, 7.5 x 7.5 x 7.5 inches each | 19.1 x 19.1 x 19.1 cm
02-07. Photographs by Joshua Charow, Steve Silver in his Williamsburg Loft, Printed 2024.
archival pigment print on Canson Platine paper
Image Size: 12 x 18 inches | 30.5 x 45.7 cm
Paper Size: 16 x 20 inches | 40.6 x 50.8 cm
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist’s proofs

05/30/2024

Gilda Pervin (b. 1933) is an artist who has lived on the Bowery for over four decades.

Her unique sculpture “Treasures Within” (2022) in the current exhibition, is a wonderful tactile nest created with twine, found objects, and painted in black acrylic.

“The appearance of my work develops from a love of the materials that I use. Through this process of manipulation, I discover portrayals of time, memory, loss, transition – moments caught that suggest a passage of time.”
- Gilda Pervin

Included here is a photograph of Gilda Pervin in her studio loft on the Bowery.
The famous German-born American sculptor Eva Hesse lived in the same building in the 1960s, using the attic as her art studio.

01-02. Gilda Pervin, Treasures Within (2022), twine, acrylic paint, found objects, cement base, 12 x 12 x 12 inches | 30.5 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm.
03. The Meeting (2024), whiteground etching, signed, 14 x 11 inches | 35.6 x 27.9 cm.
04-07. Photograph by Joshua Charow, Gilda Pervin in her Bowery Loft, Printed 2024
archival pigment print on Canson Platine paper
Image Size: 12 x 18 inches | 30.5 x 45.7 cm
Paper Size: 16 x 20 inches | 40.6 x 50.8 cm
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist’s proofs

05/24/2024

Loretta Dunkelman is an abstract artist whose minimal works are directly inspired by architecture and negative space.

Dunkelman is a co-founder of A.I.R. Gallery , the first all-female artists’ cooperative galleries in the United States. She was instrumental in organizing “Thirteen Women Artists” one of the first major exhibitions featuring women artists in the country.

Dunkelman has lived in her loft – a former lodging house on the Bowery – since 1966. Overlooking the intersection of the Bowery, Chinatown, and the Lower East Side, Loretta has watched the area change from “skid row” to its present day.

Three of Dunkelman’s abstract oil-chalk on paper works from the 1970s are on view next to her photograph by Joshua Charow in our current exhibition “Loft Law” through June 29.

Loretta Dunkelman
01. Agia Triada, Floor for a Sanctuary, Oct-Nov, 1974
02. Stadium Series, Jul, 1976
03. Stadium Series, Aug, 1976
all three oil-wax chalk and pencil on paper

04. Photograph by Joshua Charow, Loretta Dunkleman in her Bowery Loft, Printed 2024
archival pigment print on Canson Platine paper
Image Size: 12 x 18 inches | 30.5 x 45.7 cm
Paper Size: 16 x 20 inches | 40.6 x 50.8 cm
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist’s proofs

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05/23/2024

Experimental filmmakers Ken and Flo Jacobs have resided in their Tribeca loft since 1965! At the time they moved in, the monthly rent for the 2,000-square-foot-loft was $70. Much like many lofts in the area, their loft was a gathering place.

“Once, we staged a live shadow play with a stretched curation in the loft. Our audience consisted of just two people: Yoko Ono and John Lennon. They were on the brink of sponsoring us to present our work more formally when the authorities intervened in John’s life, disrupting our plans. It could have led us down a different path.”
- Ken and Flo Jacobs

You can see these photos and more in our current exhibition, Loft Law: Photographs by Joshua Charow, on view through June 29th.

Photograph by Joshua Charow, Ken and Flo Jacobs in their Tribeca Loft, Printed 2024
archival pigment print on Canson Platine paper
Image Size: 12 x 18 inches | 30.5 x 45.7 cm
Paper Size: 16 x 20 inches | 40.6 x 50.8 cm
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist’s proofs

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05/10/2024

"Documentary photographer and cinematographer Joshua Charow has lifted the veil on a unique sector of the city’s rich history: artist lofts."
- Annabel Keenan, Cultured Magazine

"If you’re lucky enough to walk into one of their studios, you will be transported back to the year they moved in, to a New York that doesn’t exist anymore," writes Charow in his intro. The [photographs] give us “a peek into the wonderful worlds they’ve created and sustained in our ever-changing city.”
- Wendy Goodman, Curbed, Published by NY Magazine

"Ratified at a time when the Lower Manhattan art district was beginning to take shape—with eclectic galleries and installations sprouting in bunches and the legendary who’s who of contemporary art clamoring to make an impression—the Loft Law instituted a safeguard for ambitious beatniks to secure, live, and work in these picturesque studio spaces normally only seen in coming-of-age indie flicks."
- Jason Meggyesy, Highsnobiety

A selection of six press articles for Joshua Charow!

His debut exhibition Loft Law: Photographs by Joshua Charow opens next Thursday May 16th, 6:00-8:00PM. Including artwork by eleven artists featured in his photographs: Carmen Cicero, Loretta Dunkelman, Betsy Kaufman, Kimiko Fujimura, Joseph Marioni, Carolyn Oberst, Marsha Pels, Gilda Pervin, Steve Silver, Mike Sullivan, and Jeff Way.

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05/02/2024

📸 Opening May 16th from 6:00-8:00PM -- Loft Law: Photographs by Joshua Charow.

We're very excited to announce the first solo exhibition for New York-based documentary photographer and filmmaker Joshua Charow (b. 1998), curated by James Cavello.

This is Charow’s premiere exhibition of his photographs and short documentary films on New York artists.

The exhibition includes forty photographs by Charow and twenty works of art by eleven of the artists featured in the photographs: Carmen Cicero, Loretta Dunkelman, Betsy Kaufman, Kimiko Fujimura, Joseph Marioni, Carolyn Oberst, Marsha Pels, Gilda Pervin, Steve Silver, Mike Sullivan, and Jeff Way.

Kimiko Fujimura in her Chinatown Loft
Photograph by Joshua Charow
© Joshua Charow, Courtesy the artist and Westwood Gallery NYC

04/26/2024

Inger Johanne Grytting is now on view in "Drawing Out," a traveling exhibition produced by Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, at Tegnerforbundet in Oslo, Norway.

The exhibition examines drawing as a form of expression and gives an insight into how differently artists utilize the medium - both in the traditional sense with a focus on craftsmanship, and beyond to the untraditional.

The following artists are represented in the exhibition:
Marsil Andjelov Al-Mahamid (b. 1983), Anna-Eva Bergman (1909-1987), Bjørn Carlsen (b. 1945), Arnold Dahlslett (b. 1948), Arne Ekeland (1908-1994), Sissel Fredriksen (b. 1963), Jan Groth (1938-2022), Inger Johanne Grytting (b. 1949), Johanne Marie Hansen-Krone (1952-2024), Jean Heiberg (1884-1976), Mogens Henckel (b. 1966), Sigfrid Ingebjørg Hernes (b. 1956), Iver Jåks (1932-2007), Ragnhild Keyser (1889-1943), Rolf Nesch (1893-1975), Tone Lyngstad Nyaas (b. 1962), Silje Figenschou Thoresen (b. 1978), Kjell Varvin (b. 1939) and Beth Wyller (b. 1947).

Inger Johanne Grytting, T9, 1999, graphite on paper, 76 x 56 cm
Inger Johanne Grytting, T54, 2005, graphite on paper, 76 x 56 cm

Installation Views, Drawing Out, Tegnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway
Image credit: The Norwegian Drawing Center / Øystein Thorvaldsen

04/20/2024

Happy Birthday to Harvey Quaytman who would have celebrated his 87 birthday today!

Three of Quaytman's paintings are on view in our current exhibition "Artists on the Bowery Part 5: Jake Berthot, David Diao, Harmony Hammond, Louise Nevelson, Harvey Quaytman, Carrie Yamaoka" through May 11.

Installation Views, Artists on the Bowery Part 5 at Westwood Gallery NYC, 2024.
Photo: Westwood Gallery NYC

Courtesy the Harvey Quaytman Trust and Van Doren Waxter .

04/17/2024

Throughout her career, Harmony Hammond has been interested in material and process in her painting practice and in pushing traditional printmaking. In her paintings, she utilizes fabrics, grommets, and mixed media elements to disrupt the grid, many times focusing on the juxtaposition of that grid with the meditative aspects of repetitive gestures that heal and protect the surface.

First taking these ideas to paper in 2011 with master printer Marina Ancona at 10 Grand Press, Hammond created a series of Grommetypes, built up layers of wet-onto-wet ink printed onto pre-grommeted handmade paper.

On view in the exhibition are two unique works in near-monochrome black, one from her Aperture and one from her Rim series. Despite their sparse materials of ink, grommets, and paper, the monotypes expand on Hammond’s notions of the grid, burying the texture of the base layer behind accumulations of ink, like new skin.

Hammond is an American artist who is a leading member in the development of the 1970s feminist art movement in New York as well as a co-founder of A.I.R., the first women’s cooperative art gallery in New York. Hammond's work is concurrently on view in the 2024 and in "The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art" at the in London, United Kingdom.

[01-03.] Harmony Hammond, Aperture #6, 2013, Monotype on grommeted Twinrocker paper, 28 x 20 inches | 71.1 x 50.8 cm
[04.] Harmony Hammond, Rim Series #6, 2011, Monotype on grommeted Twinrocker paper, 13 x 10 1/2 inches | 33.0 x 26.7 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Gray Associates . © Harmony Hammond.

04/12/2024

Opening April 17th next week in Venice!

Boris Lurie: LIFE WITH THE DEAD
April 20th - November 24th, 2024
Opening Reception: April 17th, 5:00-8:00PM
Presented by the Boris Lurie Art Foundation and Museum Center for Persecuted Arts to coincide with the 60th Venice Biennale and to commemorate the 100th birthday of Boris Lurie.

The exhibition will include over fifty works from the 1950s-70s that illustrate his active commitment to social justice and the memory of the Holocaust.

On view at Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista di Venezia, Spazio Espositivo Badoer.

[01.] Flyer for Boris Lurie: LIFE WITH THE DEAD.
[02.] Boris Lurie, NO with Mrs. Kennedy, 1963.
[03.] Boris Lurie, Three Women, 1957.

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04/06/2024

Artists on the Bowery Part 5: Jake Berthot, David Diao, Harmony Hammond, Louise Nevelson, Harvey Quaytman, Carrie Yamaoka

On view are two rare wall sculptures by Louise Nevelson, a monumental 1970s abstract painting by Jake Berthot, unique monotypes by Harmony Hammond (her work is concurrently included in the Whitney Biennial), abstract paintings integrating acrylic and ground glass by Harvey Quaytman, a tennis court painting from David Diao’s Da Hen Li House Cycle, and black vinyl works by Carrie Yamaoka that emphasize perfection vs imperfection.

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