Jane Levere reviews Westwood Gallery NYC: 30 Years, An Anniversary Exhibition.
"Since its inaugural exhibition of overlooked Bauhaus artists of the 1920’s, many of the gallery’s exhibitions have helped restore visibility to underrepresented figures in art history. These artists include Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980), revolutionary Art Deco cubist artist; Leo Matiz (1917-1998), Colombian photographer of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros; John Thomson (1837-1921), Scottish photographer who captured 19th century images of the people of China and the Far East; László Paizs (1935-2009), Hungarian artist whose work was influenced by WWII and the Hungarian Revolution; Boris Lurie (1924-2008), Holocaust survivor who went on to co-found the NoArt! Movement in NYC in the 1950s; Lucien Clergue (1934-2014), photographer of Picasso and Jean Cocteau’s 1960 film Testament of Orpheus; and Pop artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987), who, along with Victor ‘Hugo’ Rojas (1948-1994), was the subject of an 18-year research project culminating in an exhibition at the gallery of 13 mannequin sculptures, created c. 1979-80."
- Jane Levere
