New York, NY – A milestone exhibition to celebrate its 30th anniversary, Westwood Gallery NYC: 30 Years, curated by James Cavello, will feature 80 works of art selected from the gallery’s expansive history of over 180 exhibitions and 800 artists. The public exhibition will be on view from September 6 through October 25, 2025, with an opening reception on Saturday, September 6th, from 5 to 8pm.

Founded in 1995 by James Cavello and Margarite Almeida, Westwood Gallery began its journey in SoHo’s historic Broadway arts corridor and is currently located in the Bowery Arts District, a moniker coined by the gallery to celebrate the history of artist pioneers, galleries, and museums on the Bowery. The gallery program has a reputation for championing historically overlooked artists, advancing scholarship, and serving as a bridge between art, community, collections, and education.

Since its inaugural exhibition of overlooked Bauhaus artists of the 1920s, many of the gallery’s exhibitions have worked to restore visibility to underrepresented figures in art history. This included:
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 the celebrated 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 a revelatory exhibition of 13 mannequin sculptures, created c. 1979-80.