room for paper 07 - Stephen Westfall: recent gouaches

For exhibition seven in the room for paper we are honored to present recent gouaches by renown New York painter and critical writer Stephen Westfall. Westfall is a recipient of this year's Prix de Rome, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship, three NEAs, two New York State Council on the Arts Awards, the 2... Read more

For exhibition seven in the room for paper we are honored to present recent gouaches by renown New York painter and critical writer Stephen Westfall. Westfall is a recipient of this year’s Prix de Rome, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship, three NEAs, two New York State Council on the Arts Awards, the 2006 Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Arts, and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work is widely reviewed, most recently in the April issue of Art in America. Westfall’s painting is as democratic as it is bipolar, and he extols the virtues of both states. These intimate gouaches tread the fine balance between a conceptually based abstraction and an intuitive navigation rooted in the experiences of the body; between the strange forces of art history and contemporary culture, and the gravitational forces that channel color and light.