Joanna Beall Westermann, Old Virginie, 1965-1967
Venus Over Manhattan is pleased to announce an exhibition of work by Joanna Beall Westermann, organized in collaboration with the late artist’s estate. It will be the first solo presentation for the artist in over two decades. A student of Josef Albers and Diego Rivera, Joanna Beall Westermann’s contributions were significant, yet somewhat obscured in her lifetime by her marriage to famed sculptor and printmaker H.C. Westermann. Venus Over Manhattan’s exhibition comprises a group of paintings, drawings, and collages that indicate the pioneering spirit of a quiet and compelling talent. Her works on display contain an original distillation of modernist, expressionist, and surrealist precedents, which Beall creatively reimagined in order to extract from the mundane that which is extraordinary.
Venus Over Manhattan is pleased to announce an exhibition of work by Joanna Beall Westermann, organized in collaboration with the late artist’s estate. It will be the first solo presentation for the artist in over two decades. A student of Josef Albers and Diego Rivera, Joanna Beall Westermann’s contributions were significant, yet somewhat obscured in her lifetime by her marriage to famed sculptor and printmaker H.C. Westermann. Venus Over Manhattan’s exhibition comprises a group of paintings, drawings, and collages that indicate the pioneering spirit of a quiet and compelling talent. Her works on display contain an original distillation of modernist, expressionist, and surrealist precedents, which Beall creatively reimagined in order to extract from the mundane that which is extraordinary
