Artist Statement
When Westbeth Artists’ Housing opened in Manhattan’s Far West Village in 1970, it was meant to be a self-sustaining live, work, and exhibition space where struggling young artists stayed until they became established. But most artists who moved into the 384 units and 13 floors at the building’s inauguration never left. Today, Westbeth stands as a time capsule in New York’s ever-changing artistic, cultural, and physical landscape, the last enclave of a quickly fading generation of artist and a nearly vanished era of New York City art history.
