James Cavello
-NYC
Background & Position He began his arts career in the late 1980s as Oneartnation President of the Park Slope Artists Council, a nonprofit with over 300 artists, organizing exhibitions in alternative spaces nationally and internationally. He later served as Director of the Museum of the National Arts Foundation before establishing an arts consulting practice in SoHo.
Gallery Program Westwood Gallery has a reputation for championing historically overlooked artists, advancing scholarship, and serving as a bridge between art, community, collections, and education. Within the last decade, the gallery has increased its focus on intertwining historical research with contemporary relevance, and has defined itself as a key voice in shaping dialogue between past and present — reaffirming Downtown NYC as a critical site of artistic production. Westwood Gallery NYC
Civic Role In November 2022, Cavello was unanimously elected President of the SoHo Broadway Initiative — the first NYC gallerist to be elected President of a Business Improvement District (BID). Westwood Gallery NYC
Current Exhibition His current show (through May 9, 2026) presents NO!art: Downtown Rebellion, 1960s, focusing on Boris Lurie, Sam Goodman, and Stanley Fisher, alongside a tribute exhibition for gallerist Gertrude Stein (1927–2026).
Are you looking at Cavello as a potential contact in relation to the Bill Rabinovitch show — given his deep SoHo roots and focus on historically underrecognized Downtown artists? That alignment seems quite direct.
Dana Altman critic/writer, and director at Westwood Gallery, she published Art and Multiplicity, 2008) and contributed critical writing to LADA on performance art, poetry, and socially engaged practice. Thisisliveart The writing focuses on ritual, embodiment, and the collapse of linguistic meaning into sound — work at the threshold of performance, phenomenology, and reception theory. Westwood Gallery has a reputation for championing historically overlooked artists, advancing scholarship, and serving as a bridge between art, community, collections, and education. Within the last decade, the gallery has increased its focus on intertwining historical research with contemporary relevance, and has defined itself as a key voice in shaping dialogue between past and present — reaffirming Downtown NYC as a critical site of artistic production.