Rick Wester Fine Art - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Rick Wester Fine Art. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Rachael Wren “Still It Grows”
I almost always work in a square format. I know that some artists find the square confining, but for me it feels like the most expansive shape — it gives me the freedom to move equally in all directions...More »
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Nicole Wassall “Magic, Mischief & Mayhem”
Nicole WASSALL, selection of wands featured in Magic, Mischief & Mayhem London based multimedia artist Nicole Wassall looks to myths and legends as well as modern history to question the nature...More »
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Cat Balco “No Seed Unsung”
I believe in those wing’d purposes, And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me, And consider green and violet and the tufted crown intentional, And do not call the tortoise unworthy because...More »
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Alyse Rosner “Trusting the River”
RWFA’s sixth solo exhibition of paintings by Alyse Rosner. Her first, in 2013, was the adumbrative Premonitions, intentionally scheduled with 7 Paintings, shortly thereafter. Her most recent, Day to Day...More »
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“If 6…. RWFA Artists & Guests” Exhibition
Now, if a 6 turned out to be 9, I don’t mind, I don’t mind….. - Jimi Hendrix, If 6 Was 9 (1967) RWFA presents If 6…. RWFA Artists and Friends. This is the gallery’s first in-person group exhibition...More »
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Tom McGlynn “At Present”
Adrian Stokes wrote that all art must have “Form, the trick of completeness.” McGlynn’s venture is that these strictly variegated surfaces that are unique and even idiosyncratic are generic, quasi-fictional...More »
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Cat Balco “My Exploding Stars”
When I am painting, I look for moments that feel specific yet unnamable and both abstract and real. I enjoy the poetry of gestural paint strokes and the harmony of colors speaking to each other. I try...More »
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Alyse Rosner “Day to Day: Recent Drawings, 2017 - 2019”
I am not going to the studio to draw. Instead, I am drawing while I live. I incorporate where I am, what I am thinking, what I remember, or imagine. These pieces are unfiltered direct output - as honest...More »
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Aaron Rothman “A Hollow Not A Void”
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“Circles & Squares” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Video installation
- 2019-06-13 - 2019-08-09
FEATURING: Johnny ADIMANDO Diane ARBUS Cat BALCO Ellen CANTOR Christopher COLVILLE Elisa DECKER Lynn DUNHAM Amy FELL Ben GODWARD Sandi HABER FIFIELD Sharon HARPER Kate JOYCE Rhea KARAM Michael...More »
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“Other News” Exhibition
Rick Wester Fine Art persents Other News, an exhibition of works in varying mediums by three women inspired by disparate sources but who share a common thread in responding to a world of unconfined violence...More »
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David Taylor & Marcos Ramírez Erre “DeLIMITations”
Rick Wester Fine Art presents the New York debut of DeLIMITations, a project executed by two multi-disciplined artists, David Taylor and Marcos Ramírez ERRE. The two artists - one American and the other...More »
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Mary Shah “Becoming More Like Air”
They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming. - Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha Rick Wester Fine...More »
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Max Kellenberger and Alex Yudzon Exhibition
[In this world,] the passage of time brings increasing order. Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern,...More »
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Cassandra Zampini “Data Mine”
A knowledge of photography is just as important as that of the alphabet. The illiterates of the future will be ignorant of the use of camera and pen alike. -Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in 1936, as quoted in...More »
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“Get Loose” Exhibition
Guest curated by Tracy McKenna Rick Wester Fine Art presents GET LOOSE, a group exhibition guest curated by Tracy McKenna featuring three artists whose work is tied together by an insistence on brash,...More »
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“Not Of This World: Transcending Reality In Photography” Exhibition
True and accurate depictions of the present world have been the central purpose of photography from its inception. Parallel to this aspect of the medium’s history has been the artist’s desire to transform...More »
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Alyse Rosner “A Little Bit of Time “
I want the things I see and live with to be part of the imagery and sensation of the paintings— perhaps to document my daily experience but also to chronicle the growth and decomposition that continues...More »
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Tom McGLYNN “Station / Decal / Survey”
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“Tremolo” Exhibition
Curated by Carolanna Parlato Rick Wester Fine Art presents a group exhibition, Tremolo, featuring works by ten artists employing widely varied mediums, including painting, photography, video and neon....More »
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Ima Mfon “Nigerian Identity” and Donna Ruff “The Migrant Series”
Rick Wester Fine Art presents two simultaneous solo exhibitions that reverberate as related, timely and relevant. Seen together, these two bodies of work are active reminders that the personal is political...More »
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Ira Martin “The Family Archives”
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Molly LAMB “Home and Away” and Christopher COLVILLE “Beyond Reckoning”
“From the moment I met both Molly Lamb and Chris Colville, I was determined to work with and exhibit their photographs. Each has a unique vision and approach, unlike any other I’ve encountered. Their photographs...More »
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“Lost in Space” Exhibition
This summer RWFA is presenting a group exhibition featuring the work of eight photographers abstractly exploring the classic subject of landscape. Photographing the landscape is as old as the medium itself....More »
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Mary Shah “A Place In Space Where We Both Meet”
Rick Wester Fine Art presents A Place In Space Where We Both Meet, the first solo exhibition in New York of paintings by Mary Shah. Receiving her B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 2007, Shah explores personal...More »
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Eric Pickersgill “Removed”
In 2015, 96.8% of the Earth’s population had a Mobile-Cellular telephone subscription. 47.2% had a subscription that included a broadband Internet connection. – ITU (International Telecommunications...More »
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David Magnusson “Purity”
The more I learned, the more I was surprised that I had been so quick to judge people I knew so little about. I was struck by the idea that what set us apart wasn’t anything more than how we had been influenced...More »
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Bjørn Sterri “Family Photographs, 2001–2015”
Similar to novelists, photographers often work with what is closest – creating tales from facts woven intimately with the essence of real experience. For 15 years Bjørn Sterri has photographed his family,...More »
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Yola Monakhov Stockton “Post-Photography”
The release of all constraints against creativity is on full display in Monakhov Stockton’s simultaneous exhibition, selections from her ongoing project of unique pinhole camera images, Post-Photography....More »
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Diana Matar “Evidence”
Stemming from the Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1960s and 70s, the idea that the political is personal is often bantered about. To prove it, a good majority of photography’s essential power would...More »
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David Leventi “Opera”
In celebration of the publication of David Leventi’s soon to be released monograph, Opera (Damiani, 2015), Rick Wester Fine Art presents an exhibition of his large-scale photographs from the series, the...More »
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David Battel “Out of Time”
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Donna J. Wan Exhibition
In her most recent body of work, the Taiwanese-born, Stanford educated and San Francisco based photographer, Donna J. Wan has dedicated herself to exploring an often shuttered and taboo subject - the taking...More »
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Joni Sternbach “Surf Site Tin Type”
Rick Wester Fine Art presents Joni Sternbach: Selections from Surf Site Tin Type - an exhibition of tintype images celebrating the March release of the photographer’s second monograph. Sternbach has spent...More »
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Lilly McElroy “I Control The Sun”
Rick Wester Fine Art presents the first solo exhibition in New York of work by the Los Angeles-based artist, Lilly McElroy. Titled I Control The Sun, the works on view delve into McElroy’s interest in...More »
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Jessica Todd Harper “The Home Stage”
Coinciding with the release of her second monograph, The Home Stage (Damiani Editore), Jessica Todd Harper will be featured in her first solo exhibition at Rick Wester Fine Art. Her first monograph, Interior...More »
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Allison L. Wade “It’s Not You”
Rick Wester Fine Art announces It’s Not You, the first solo exhibition in New York by painter and photographer Allison L. Wade. The exhibition will feature recent additions to the artist’s highly followed...More »
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Sharon Harper “Shifting Views”
Rick Wester Fine Art presents, Shifting Views, the gallery’s second exhibition of photographs by Sharon Harper. Featuring selections of recent work, Shifting Views is culled from the artist’s projects...More »
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Joni Sternbach “The Passengers: The New York City subway, 1975 - 1980”
Joni Sternbach, known internationally for her extensive documentation of surfers and surf culture using the archaic wet-plate collodion tintype process, had 25 years of experience photographing before...More »
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Lydia Goldblatt “Still Here”
Selected from the 45 images contained in her 2013 monograph published by Hatje Cantz, Still Here will be Goldblatt’s first exhibition with RWFA as well as her first solo show in New York. More »
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Alison Brady “What Should Remain Secret”
Elizabeth Houston Projects presents Alison Brady’s fourth solo exhibition in New York What Should Remain Secret in collaboration with Rick Wester Fine Art. This exhibition will be the first in many select...More »
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Kate Joyce “Bull City Summer”
Rick Wester Fine Art presents Photographs from Bull City Summer, a solo exhibition by the Chicago based artist Kate Joyce. The selection of photographs on view are taken from Joyce’s time spent in North...More »
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Laurie Lambrecht “Jungle Road”
Rick Wester Fine Art announces the opening of Jungle Road, our third solo exhibition of photographs by Laurie Lambrecht. For the last 25 years Laurie Lambrecht has quietly woven together a body of luminescent...More »
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John Goodman “Boxers + Ballerinas”
John Goodman’s camera [however] is not an instrument of detachment, analysis, or judgment, but an iris of an eye that is our own, dissolving ostensible barriers between object and subject. His intention...More »
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“Not Long Hidden” Exhibition
In the midst of the coldest winter in New York in 20 years it seems that no amount of freezing sunshine, Vitamin D or dry radiator heat can overcome the chill of the wind off the Hudson, East or Harlem...More »
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Alyse Rosner “7 Paintings”
Rick Wester Fine Art is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition of paintings on paper this year by Alyse Rosner, a Connecticut based painter. Her New York premiere of smaller scale works this past...More »
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“They Are Us: Animal Identity and the Anthropomorphic Urge”
The urge to identify with animals is as old as humankind itself. The symbiotic reliance we share with other species has been honored, celebrated, feared and respected for millennia. The creative visual...More »
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Joe Maloney “Asbury Park &The Jersey Shore, c. 1979”
After a hiatus of twenty years, the photographer Joe Maloney will be featured in a retrospective exhibition of photographs of the seaside resort town of Asbury Park and the Jersey Shore from the 1970s...More »
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Alyse Rosner “Premonitions”
Premonitions is Rosner’s first one-person exhibition in New York. In 2012, Alyse Rosner: Large Scale Work was exhibited at artSPACE in New Haven, Connecticut. The show, curated by Harry Philbrick, formerly...More »
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Sandi Haber Fifield “After the Threshold”
After the Threshold is the gallery’s third exhibition featuring work by Haber Fifield and her second solo exhibition here. Since the 1980s, her work has explored the visual, psychological and formal possibilities...More »
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Paola Ferrario "Signs & Remains"
Everyone has a camera today. Pencils and paper, once the tools used to jot down reminders and memories have been supplanted by the cellphone camera. Language is evolving from the written word to the impromptu...More »
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Laurie Lambrecht "China, 2009"
Rick Wester Fine Art opens the fall season with a survey of Laurie Lambrecht’s photographs from China created in 2009. Well known for her artists’ portrait studies, these Asian works are revelatory,...More »
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Joni Sternbach "Surfland, Revisited 2006-2011"
Sternbach has dedicated much of the past six years making portraits of surfers and their community employing the archaic, elaborate and fascinating wet-plate collodion process commonly known as tintype....More »
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Christian Vogt "The Flaxen Diary, 2003-2011 and Tree's Own, 2011"
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D.W. Mellor "Garvey 30 Years, A Photographic Portrait" Exhibition
The series focuses on a prolonged project of photographing a man who, at first, was a stranger but eventually evolved into a muse and friend. Garvey — 30 Years embodies the tradition of the extended portrait...More »
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"Laurie Lambrecht in Roy Lichtenstein's Studio: The First and The Unseen" Exhibition
Included are many of the first prints made of images featured in her soon to be released monograph, Roy Lichtenstein In His Studio (Monacelli, 2011). These are the prints she showed Lichtenstein during...More »
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"Hail Traveler! The Photographer as Tourist, and the Tourist as Subject" Exhibition
Works on view include a video piece by Lilly McElroy, titled "The Square-After Roberto Lopardo," a thirty minute video piece documenting a performance in Chicago. McElroy was contained in a square drawn...More »
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Jeff Mermelstein "Work Oeuvre Opera"
As one would expect from Mermelstein, this group of pictures is hardly based on beauty, society, style or runways but rather, it is part of the photographer's ongoing investigation into the collision of...More »
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Sandi Haber Fifield "Between Planting and Picking"
To celebrate the end of winter and to anticipate spring, Rick Wester Fine Art presents an exhibition of recent color photographs by Sandi Haber Fifield, selected from her upcoming monograph, Between Planting...More »
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"Random Thoughts" Exhibition
Selections from the gallery's inventory More »
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Jonathan Smith "Untold Stories"
Rick Wester Fine Art presents an exhibition of recent color photographs by Jonathan Smith, a British photographer living and working in New York for ten years. Saturated with an intense palette and dramatically...More »
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"Big Girls: Large Format Photographs by Women Photographers" Exhibition
Big Girls: Large Format Photographs by Women Photographers at Rick Wester Fine Art (RWFA) features a variety of compelling large-format photographs by women artists. On view from May 20 to July 30, 2010,...More »