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Established in 1995 in NYC by co-founders James Cavello and Margarite Almeida, Westwood Gallery NYC is dedicated to recontextualizing art history, supporting the local Bowery Arts community, and rescuing, preserving, and archiving the works of overlooked artist estates. In 2016, the gallery moved into its current space at 262 Bowery, dedicated to exhibiting the internationally known and historically overlooked artists that have called New York City’s Bowery neighborhood their studios and homes. Recently, the gallery has expanded its program to include veteran New York artists working in all media.

Approaching three decades, Westwood Gallery NYC has undertaken numerous groundbreaking rediscoveries of both local New York and global international artists working in painting, sculpture, and photography. The gallery has completed large-scale projects in public art, documentary film, museum collaborations, and humanitarian philanthropic activities. In 1995, the gallery was founded at 568-578 Broadway, in the same building as Leo Castelli Gallery, John Gibson Gallery, Susan Teller Gallery, and Curt Marcus Gallery, and steps away from the Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New Museum, and African Art Museum.

From the gallery’s inception, our program has focused on contemporary and historic artists, and presented comprehensive exhibition surveys of significant yet overlooked visual artists and photographers. Westwood Gallery NYC also represents and manages the estates and studios of Will Insley (1929-2011), Roy Schatt (1909-2002), Constantin Antonovici (1911-2002), James Juthstrom (1925-2007), Charles Hinman (b. 1932) and Lazhar Mansouri (1932-1985).

Other projects across the gallery’s history include:

James Cavello and Margarite Almeida’s humanitarian participation with Worldwide Children’s Foundation of New York, providing life saving and life altering surgeries for children through 2017
the largest glass sculpture commission in all of Asia “The Chronos Trilogy” by Warren Carther in 1998
the award winning documentary film Amazon Gold / River of Gold
a traveling exhibition of Douglas Kirkland photographs with Karl Lagerfeld and Chanel Inc., curated by James Cavello

The gallery’s ‘Firsts’ include seminal exhibitions in painting, sculpture, and documentary photography:

the first posthumous US retrospective for the Art Deco Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka (1898 - 1980) in 1995;
the first US retrospective of contemporary Japanese dollmaker Yuki Atae (b. 1937) in 2000;
the first US retrospective of Postmodern Hungarian artist Lazslo Paizs (1935 - 2009) in 2002;
the first US survey of Algerian photographer Lazhar Mansouri (1932-1985) in 2007;
the first US rediscovery and survey of Civil Rights Movement photojournalism by Bob Adelman (1930-2016) in 2008;

The gallery has also authored and published books on gallery artists, most recently Don Porcaro: Time Will Tell, Danny Simmons: The Long and Short of It, Alan Steele: Unconditionally Constitutional, The Language of Hands: Photographs from the Buhl Collection, Boris Lurie: LIFE AFTER DEATH, and others. The gallery will publish its first monograph on Will Insley in 2024.

The gallery has been reviewed in major media publications such as for our exhibition for the estate of Algerian photographer Lazhar Mansouri (1932-1985) when, in our 2007 retrospective “Portraits of a Village, 1950-80,” Holland Cotter wrote in the New York Times: ‘as more and more work comes to light, so do the names of remarkable artists, well known to their contemporaries, now known within a global framework.’

Westwood Gallery artists are represented in the permanent collections of Museum of Modern Art New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Smithsonian, Victoria and Albert Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museo Tamayo, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Qatar Museums, PS1, Walker Art Center, The Kreeger Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and other national and international institutions.

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