Exhibitor listing
WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC
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E-mail address :
info@westwoodgallery.com
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Website :
http://www.westwoodgallery.com
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Exhibitor's Artists:
Clergue Lucien
Biography :
Lucien Clergue is a legendary fine art photographer, author, educator and filmmaker. His work has been associated with significant artists of the 20th century, including Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Roland Barthes, Max Ernst, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Salvador Dali, Jean Renoir, André Kertész, Marcel Breuer, Roman Polanski and the Gipsy Kings.
Clergue has captured extraordinary images of Saltimbanques, nudes, the bullfight, intimate portraits of artists, intellectuals, musicians and creative individuals. His photographic artistry extends to experimental and visionary images of deserts, cities and integrating master paintings with the human form. In addition to photography, Clergue has created and directed numerous art related films, including Picasso, War, Love and Peace. He is co-founder, along with Michel Tournier, of the annual Les Rencontres d’Arles Photographie, the internationally recognized photography festival in Arles, France.
Lucien Clergue is one of only three photographers (including Henri Cartier-Bresson and André Kertész) to receive the French Legion of Honor award. In addition, he is the first photographer bestowed with membership in the Académie des Beaux Arts of the Institute of France. Clergue’s photographs have been exhibited in over 100 solo exhibitions worldwide. Harvard University’s Fogg Museum has an extensive collection of Clergue’s photographs, as well as Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
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El Castillo Bryan
Biography :
Bryan El Castillo deconstructs and reconstructs layers of photographs and painting to create a fractured and emotionally charged image. Through a technique of collaging photographs on canvas and overpainting, the artist focuses on the mystique of the individual, the search for identity in an ego-centric culture and the impact of our own selfish and indifferent actions over the environment.
El Castillo has created several series of work, including self-portraits examining the effect of television, film and internet on the viewer’s psyche. The daily barrage of media images takes on a generation too narcissistic to consider the consequences of daily actions. His latest series focuses on retro imagery combined with world events to question our perception.
El Castillo has also contributed work to the documentary Amazon Aid, which exposes illegal gold mining in the Amazon, to be released in 2012. WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC has exhibited Bryan El Castillo’s artwork since 2007.
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Indiana Robert
Biography :
Born in New Castle, IN, 1928
Education: Art Institute of Chicago, 1953
Robert Indiana was born in New Castle, Indiana. He moved to New York City in 1954 and joined the pop art movement, using distinctive imagery drawing on commercial art approaches blended with existentialism, that gradually moved toward what Indiana calls "sculptural poems".
Also exhibited by:
Rosenbaum Contemporary,
Contessa Gallery,
KM Fine Arts - Chicago | LA,
Kirkland Douglas
Biography :
Douglas Kirkland started his career in 1957 as an apprentice to photographer Irving Penn and was hired by Look Magazine as a photojournalist. Since then, he has completed scores of projects and books, and his fine art photographs have been widely exhibited worldwide, in both galleries and museums. In 2002 Kirkland was named ‘Photographer of the Year’ by PhotoImaging, Manufacturing and Distributor’s Association (PMDA). He is the recipient of the 2003 Lucie Award for ‘Outstanding Achievement in Entertainment Photography’, as well as receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Motion Picture Society of Operating Cameramen. In 2006 he was awarded The Golden Eye of Russia and also honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from CAPIC in his native Toronto, Canada. In 2007, Douglas received an Honorary Master of Fine Arts Degree form Brooks Institute for his commitment and dedication to his profession.
Douglas Kirkland’s photographs have been on view and are in the collection of numerous museums and institutions in the US and internationally, among them Eastman House in Rochester, The Annenberg Space for Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, The Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, PA), Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Museum of the Triennial in Milan, The Smithsonian, the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Tokyo); Gemeentemuseum of Den Haag (The Netherlands), Southeast Museum of Photography. His exhibition, My Life in Pictures, at the Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (solo) was rated number 3 in terms of visitor attendance of all 2010 photography museum exhibitions internationally, according to the Art Newspaper. An exhibition of images of Coco Chanel, 1962, launched, organized and curated by Westwood Gallery, is currently touring selected locations worldwide. Photography books by Douglas Kirkland include: Light Years, Redefining Beauty, O
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Lurie Boris
Biography :
WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC is pleased to present paintings, drawings, collage and original artwork by Boris Lurie (1924-2008) at the debut of Art Southampton (July 26-30, 2012). This extraordinary artist co-founded the NO!art movement in 1959. Westwood Gallery will exhibit 1950s and 60s works of art in their booth, which highlight the expressive, experimental and significant artwork by Lurie. The gallery premiered the first New York exhibition in June 2010, after the artist’s death.
In 1946, after surviving the Holocaust, Lurie moved to New York City where he became a part of the underground art scene through a movement he co-founded with Sam Goodman (1919-1967) and Stanley Fisher (1926-1980). The NO!art movement was a form of free expression, without commercial motivation, encompassing the artists’ views on politics, society, art, personal experiences and visceral expression.
At the time, NO!art was largely rejected by art critics, museums and collectors, until the artists and artwork of NO!art became more understood and accepted in the art world. In 1970 Lurie wrote a statement for an exhibition in Germany, “The time for Yes-art is not at all at hand. Who knows? Maybe NO!art’s time is yet to come.” Boris Lurie was known for his startling images of pin-ups incorporated into Holocaust photographs, as well as sculptural work with clothing scraps. The collages with ‘pin-ups’ reflect the paper constructions Lurie created over the decades utilizing pages from ‘girlie magazines’, an alluring objectification, which encompassed much of his work, and the paintings indicate Lurie’s fascination with the female archetype, based on relationships with women throughout his life.
Lurie’s artwork has been exhibited at Weimar-Buchenwald Memorial, Germany, Block Museum of Art Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Chelsea Museum, New York City, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA and other museums and galleries in the U.S., Germany, Latvia and Israel
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ABOUT
Contemporary fine art with emphasis on New York art scene artists.
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Founded
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1995
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James Cavello
President/co-owner
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Margarite Almeida
Executive Director/co-owner
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Dana Altman
Director
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WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC, established in 1995, exhibits Contemporary artwork in all media with emphasis on photography and photo-based work, including collage, multi-media and video. Gallery owners, James Cavello and Margarite Almeida have created hundreds of exhibitions worldwide and assisted with private and public collections. Their expertise in the fine arts developed from individual acquisitions to site specific projects, art multi-media, branding, publications, estate management and films.
The gallery program encompasses traveling museum exhibitions, art talks, private and corporate art consultation, gallery events, as well as non-profit collaborations. The Plus Projects division exclusively represents estates of New York art scene artists from the 1950’s and 60's through museum-quality exhibitions and educational programs. The estates include James Juthstrom (1925-2007), Will Insley (1929-2011), Lazhar Mansouri (1935-1985), Roy Schatt (1909-2002), Constantin Antonovici (1911-2002), and Boris Lurie (1924-2008). Gallery artists are represented in the permanent collections of MOMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, Smithsonian, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, PS1, Walker Art Center, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and other national and international institutions.
Museums / curatorial collaborations: The gallery has created several traveling exhibitions and provided or sold artwork to museums. The list of museums includes Art Museum of the Americas (Washington DC), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, MOMA, Ft Lauderdale Museum of Fine Art, Boston University Art Gallery, The Annenberg Space for Photography (Los Angeles, CA), Erie Museum (Erie, PA).
Selected Media Reviews: The New York Times, Art in America, ARTnews, Artnet, New Yorker, Artforum, CNN, PBS, ABC, NBC, CBS, WPIX, WWOR, NPR, NBC, NY1, Miami Herald, SF Chronicle, NY Observer, The Art Newspaper, The Huffington Post, Art Nexus, International Herald Tribune, Vogue, Hasselblad, Cosmopolitan, Le Figaro, Village Voice, Vogue Japan, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, City Arts, New York Photo Review.
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