The gallery is delighted to announce its representation of the veteran abstract painter Stephen Westfall

Stephen Westfall, Three Kings , 2015, oil and alkyd on canvas, 66 x 78 inches Westfall Press Release   The gallery will present its first exhibition of Stephen Westfall’s new paintings next season in fall 2020. A selection of recent and earlier paintings are available to view by appointment.

Stephen Westfall, The Future Advances and Recedes , 2015, oil and alkyd on canvas, 78 x 66 inches   Since Stephen Westfall’s first solo show in the East Village in 1984, his crisp, hard-edged paintings have charted a course between post-minimalist geometries and a Pop inflected awareness of a painting as a thing in the world. Drawing on influences as diverse as Caucasian and Navajo rugs, medieval heraldry, Byzantine floor tile, early twentieth century abstraction, architecture, and Pop, Minimalist and post-Minimalist painting, Westfall’s abstraction is deeply articulated while formally honed into an active, perceptual immediacy. His brightly colored diamonds, triangles and trapezoids in the most recent canvases are conjoined into dynamic compositional skeins that seem to lean into space rather than recede.

Stephen Westfall, Otherwise , 2013, oil and alkyd on canvas, 48 x 48 inches Originally from the West Coast, Stephen Westfall received his MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1978. During the 1980s and 90s he exhibited his work at Daniel Newberg Gallery, New York; Galerie Paal, Munich; Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York and Galerie Zurcher, Paris; among others. This past spring his work was featured at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York. In addition to his studio practice, Westfall has been engaged in large-scale public installations, including a major recent commission from the Art and Design program of the MTA. This project includes three works, two of which measure over 60 foot, and are executed in laminated glass. They adorn the 30 th  Avenue subway station in Astoria, Queens. Other installations include large wall paintings created for the McNay Art Museum (2016), Art OMI (2014), and the American Academy in Rome (2010). Works by the artist are in public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Munson Williams Proctor Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and Louisiana Museum (Denmark), among others. Westfall has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Nancy Graves Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2009 he was awarded a Rome Prize Fellowship and spent a year working at the American Academy in Rome. Westfall is a professor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and in the graduate program at Bard College. He is a longtime Contributing Editor at  Art in American . Since 1997 he was represented by Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York.

Stephen Westfall, Amors , 2016, oil and alkyd on canvas, 84 x 60 inches

Henry Adams will speak on Hyman Bloom October 26 th  at 3:30 pm

Hyman Bloom, Seance , ca. 1950, oil on canvas, 34 x 26 inches

Eleanor Heartney writes on Bloom in the current issue of  Art in America Click here to read press release   Henry Adams, noted American scholar and co-author of the new monograph  Modern Mystic: The Art of Hyman Bloom , will talk on the artist at the gallery during the closing reception for  Hyman Bloom: American Master  on Saturday, October 26 th , at 3:30 pm. Join us! Please e-mail the gallery at  inquiries@alexandregallery.com  to RSVP

American Art also on view by appointment

Stuart Davis, Gloucester , 1930, oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches

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