About

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).

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 many other national and international institutions.

Selected premiere Gallery exhibitions

1995 Tamara de Lempicka (1898 - 1980), first posthumous US retrospective for the Art Deco Polish painter

2000 Yuki Atae (b. 1937), first US retrospective of contemporary Japanese dollmaker

2002 Lazslo Paizs (1935 - 2009), first US retrospective of Postmodern Hungarian artist

2007 Lazhar Mansouri (1932-1985), first US survey of Algerian photographer

2008 Bob Adelman (1930-2016), first US rediscovery and survey of Civil Rights Movement photojournalism

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Projects beyond the gallery

Gallery co-founders curated and managed the largest glass sculpture commission in all of Asia at the time, The Chronos Trilogy, by Warren Carther in 1998
Gallery co-founders produced the award-winning documentary film Amazon Gold / River of Gold (2018)
An international traveling exhibition of photographs by Douglas Kirkland, curated by James Cavello and executed in collaboration with Karl Lagerfeld and Chanel Inc. between 2010 and 2012
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

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Media and Publications

The gallery has also authored and published books on gallery artists, most recently Boris Lurie: 100 Years, Gerhardt Liebmann: The SoHo Years, 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, and others.

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The gallery has been reviewed in major media publications including the New York Times in the 2007 for Lazhar Mansouri: Portraits of a Village, 1950-80, a retrospective of the Algerian photographer, for which Holland Cotter wrote: ‘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.’

Other media coverage of Westwood Gallery NYC includes Art in America, ARTnews, The Art Newspaper, artnet, The New Yorker, Artforum, CNN, PBS, ABC, NBC, CBS, WPIX, WWOR, NPR, NBC, NY1, The Miami Herald, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Observer, The Huffington Post, Art Nexus, the International Herald Tribune, Vogue, HighSnobiety, Hasselblad, Cosmopolitan, Le Figaro, Village Voice, Vogue Japan, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, CITYarts, Thomson Reuters, and the New York Photo Review.