There is a Crack in Everything
Group show curated by Valérie Hallier
*Located within Westbeth’s former Synagogue space. Photos by David Plakke.
There is a crack in everything regroups contemporary artists working in installation, sculpture, drawing, painting, photography and video art. The show stages the duality of existence, with some artwork emerging from darkness while others bask in the glow of light. The title, inspired by Leonard Cohen's lyrics, serves as a metaphor for the inherent imperfections and vulnerabilities within our reality as well as within the previously dormant space the show populates and brings back to life.
The vast space still shows its defects as the artists imprint their own realities and dreamscapes onto its rough edges and surfaces, but there is transformation, instability, there is expectation. We undulate between chaos and order, soft and hard, organic and artificial, light and darkness. Nothing is fine, but you are.
Exhibiting artists include: Santina Amato, Amy Butowicz, CHiKA, Claudia Cortinez, Jean Foos, Tom Fruin, Tessa Grundon, Valérie Hallier, Leslie Kerby & Lianne Arnold, Christina Massey, Joseph Morris, Anne Muntges, Aston Philip, Matthew Schlanger, and Etty Yaniv.


Mural by Jean Foos

Amy Butowicz (front), Etty Yaniv (back) & Jean Foos (back left)

Joseph Morris, Santina Amato, Valérie Hallier, Leslie Kerby & Lianne Arnold

Joseph Morris, Santina Amato, Valérie Hallier, Leslie Kerby & Lianne Arnold

Claudia Cortinez, Santina Amato, Christina Massey

Christina Massey, Jean Foos, Etty Yaniv, Amy Butowicz

Christina Massey, Tom Fruin, Aston Philip, CHiKA

Claudia Cortinez, Christina Massey, Santina Amato, Joseph Morris

Tom Fruin

Matthew Schlanger, Tom Fruin, Christina Massey

Matthew Schlanger

Tom Fruin, Anne Muntges

Leslie Kerby & Lianne Arnold, Anne Muntges

Anne Muntges

Valérie Hallier, Santina Amato

Santina Amato

Leslie Kerby & Lianne Arnold, Santina Amato, Tom Fruin, Joseph Morris, Aston Philip

Christina Massey, Jean Foos, Etty Yaniv

Christina Massey, Jean Foos, Etty Yaniv

Tessa Grundon, Valérie Hallier, Christina Massey, Valérie Hallier