Art of Darkness – Bill Westheimer

Four of my tintypes are in the Summer Show at Martha Schneider Gallery in the River North section of Chicago, IL. From the gallery website: New discoveries from around the globe. As all galleries we continually seek new artists and undiscovered talent, but one distinguishing feature of our gallery is the desire to give young [...]

Big news – four huge prints selected from the MANUAL PROJECT hand portraits have been installed in the windows of 544 Bloomfield Avenue in Montclair NJ.  As part of a collaboration between the Montclair Arts Council and the Montclair Business Improvement District and participating property owners, vacant storefronts will be turned into display spaces for [...]

Two of my pieces: Hubble Rubble B-10 and Was-Wasn’t #37 will be in the show for ART from the ashes and the Glendale Parks & Open Space Foundation June 19th is the grand opening of the exhibition to benefit the rehabilitation of Deukmejian Wilderness Park. The exhibition will take place at the planned future home [...]

The 2010 Michael H. Kellicutt International Photo Show at the Coastal Arts League in Half Moon Bay, CA includes PORTRAIT OF SCOTTY PRINCE. The show is from June 11th through July 5th, 2010. Coastal Arts League Zaballa Square 300 Main Street Half Moon Bay, CA. 94019 +1 650.726.6335 info@coastalartsleague.com The jurors awarded the image an [...]

The current exhibitions at the MAD Museum on Columbus Circle in midtown Manhattan are incredible. BESPOKE is a show of handmade bicycles.  On display are some amazing feats of engineering and craftsmanship. May 13 – August 15, 2010 DEAD OR ALIVE is a fantastic collection of art objects made from animals and plants. April 27 [...]

A show at the NJAI Gallery Essex Green, 495 Prospect Avenue, West Orange NJ curated by Lorena La Grassa includes three recent images from my Hubble Rubble series. The New Jersey Arts Incubator is proud to present its fourth art exhibition, and first in its new studio at the Courtyard on Essex Green, Peripheral Field. [...]

A show of  portraits curated by Dr. Virginia Butera at  Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery at the College of St. Elizabeth in Morristown NJ, includes my Portrait of Eugene Brennan. Portraits by more than 30 artists will fill the Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery in Annunciation Center, in a new exhibition that opens June 10 [...]

The Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton NJ is showing two of my photograms of plants in BOTANICA curated by Mary Birmingham May 23 to September 12, 2010. This excellent show includes paintings, sculptures, installations and  photography by Ginger Andro and Chuck Glicksman Joan Backes Samanta Batra Mehta Susan Beiner Susan Breitsch Lynne Buschman Emilie Clark [...]

A two person show at The Imlay Gallery in Montclair NJ featured my photography and my wife Lisa’s ceramics and glass works March 19 through April 24, 2010.  This was the first installation of ASCENT.

Four of my photograms of globes were included in the exhibit TERRA at the NJAI Gallery, Essex Green, 495 Prospect Avenue, West Orange NJ   February 20  to March 20 2010.

Anish Kapoor’s installation “Memory” at the Guggenheim Museum is an astonishing and sublime experience. On view from October 21, 2009–March 28, 2010 you can see into the void of time and space. While you are there you can absorb the breadth and depth of the work of Wassily Kandinsky, too. The online view of the [...]

The Alan Klotz Gallery will be showing 5 of my Waterflowers series in the Holiday show and sale. located at 511 W 25th St 7th floor in New York’s Chelsea gallery district, the show will run from December 4th to 20th with an opening reception Friday December 4th from 6-8pm (sorry I won’t be there.) [...]

This may the best show of the decade…. Man Ray at the Jewish Museum With photographs, paintings, drawings, films, sculptures, books and of course Ray-o-grams it gives great insight into the man and his work. There is even a photo of Emmanuel Radnitzky at his bar-mitzvah. Run, don’t walk to the Jewish Museum 1109 5th [...]

The Art of Money – exhibit at the Arts Guild of New Jersey November 13 – December 11 2009 Reception Sunday November 15, 1:00 – 4:00 pm Gallery Hours Friday through Sunday 1:00 – 4:00 pm I’ll be showing work from my Oenone series Artists include Bill Westheimer Hanna Von Goeler Adrienne Heath-Stiefel MiYoung Sohn [...]

ODDYSSEY – The Billiad by Bill Westheimer Oddyssey is a quirky photo journal of one man’s trip around the world – without leaving Ohio. With humor and style the traveler visits towns from Moscow to Mesopotamia, Congo to Calcutta, Aberdeen to York by way of Utopia and scores of other unlikely places all found in [...]

My book of memories triggered by cameras is now available from Amazon for $19.95 and also directly from me with a personalized inscription for $15 plus shipping. Free Inscription More info about MOMENTO and you can download a PDF preview MOMENTO was reviewed by Douglas Stockdale on his The Photobook blog

A brush with the great Irving Penn At the risk of making this blog seem like a bunch of obits, the death of Irving Penn reminded me of my brief interaction with him back in the mid 1980′s when I moved to New York and was looking for work as a photo assistant. Mr. Penn [...]

Artist, Photographer, Activist, and Educator Jerry Burchfield died on September 11, 2009 from Colon Cancer. We’ll remember Jerry as an incredibly imaginative and creative artist, a generous and insightful mentor and educator, and a dedicated activist who took action to make his Southern California community a better place. The LA Times obituary provides a good [...]

The amazing Gigapan system uses a digital camera and a robotic camera holder to take multiple pictures of a scene. The pictures are stitched together on a desktop computer, uploaded and streamed from the gigapan.org website so that you can pan and zoom into the finest detail in huge pictures. I have been experimenting with [...]

click! photography changes everything is a collection of essays and stories by invited contributors and visitors like you discussing how photography shapes our culture and our lives. Explore how photography changes Who We Are, What We Do, What We See, Where We Go, What We Want and What We Remember. Curated by Marvin Heiferman, this [...]