STEPHEN WESTFALL

Angle
oil and alkyd on canvas
30"x 40"
2018
$ 14,000

 

STEPHEN WESTFALL (b. 1953) received his MFA in 1978 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His first solo exhibition in 1984 at Tracey Garet in New York’s East Village earned reviews in Art in America and Artnews that took note of his particular brand of geometric abstraction. Exhibitions followed during the 1980s and into the 1990s at Daniel Newburg Gallery in New York, Galerie Paal in Munich, Germany and Galerie Wilma Lock in St. Gallen, Switzerland. An exhibition of paintings took place at Andre Emmerich Gallery in New York in 1995, followed by several exhibitions at Galerie Zurcher in Paris. Westfall has been represented in New York by Lennon, Weinberg since 1997. Recent work has been exhibited at kunstgaleriebonn in Germany and David Richard Gallery in Santa Fe.

Westfall has been included in several important survey exhibitions of abstract painting including Abstraction/abstractions, geometries provisoires at the Musée d’art moderne in Saint-Etienne, France in 1997 and in both exhibitions titled Conceptual Abstraction, first at Sidney Janis Gallery in 1991 and in the exhibition that revisited that show which took place at the Hunter College Art Gallery in 2012.

Works by the artist are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, Denmark, the Munson Williams Proctor Museum in Utica, New York, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Westfall has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Nancy Graves Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He received a Rome Prize Fellowship and spent a year at the American Academy in Rome during 2009 and 2010. He is a professor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and in the graduate program at Bard University. He is a Contributing Editor at Art in America. — Source
 

SUMMER LOVE STATEMENT

The shimmying grids from these years portray movement as life within a seemingly stable structure. Space is light, movement, overlapping webs, and figure/ground reversals. The grid is a malleable sign. - Stephen Westfall

 

SOLO SHOWS

2016 • Crispy Fugue State, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York

2015 • Stars and Candy Wrappers, AD&A Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

2015 • Jewel Curtain, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2014 • Above the Desert of Non-Objectivity Stars Are Diamonds, LAProjects, Landshut, Germany

2014 • Stephen Westfall—Oracle, OMI International Arts Center, Ghent, NY

2013 • Jesus and Bossa Nova, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York

2011 • Seraphim: Paintings and Works on Paper, Lennon Weinberg, Inc., New York

2010 • The Rome Prize: Recent Painting, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco

2010 • Pavimentazione sul Muro, American Academy, Rome, Italy

2009 • Recent Gouaches, Room for Paper, San Francisco

2009 • Stephen Westfall: New Y(W)ork, Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland

2008 • Stephen Westfall: New Works, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York

2007 • Stephen Westfall, Solvent Space, Richmond, VA

2006 • Stephen Westfall: New Paintings, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York

2005 • Stephen Westfall: Recent Paintings, Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland

2005 • Stephen Westfall: New Monotypes, Aurobora Press, San Francisco

2005 • New Works on Paper, Bruno Marina Gallery, Brooklyn

2004 • Stephen Westfall, Paal Kunst & Konzept, Munich, Germany

2004 • Stephen Westfall, Galerie Zurcher, Paris, France

2003 • Stephen Westfall, Bruno Marina Gallery, Brooklyn

2003 • Stephen Westfall: New Monotypes, Aurobora Press, San Francisco

2003 • Stephen Westfall: New Paintings 2002-2003, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York

2002 • Stephen Westfall: New Paintings, Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland

2001 • Stephen Westfall, Galerie Paal, Munich, Germany

2001 • Stephen Westfall: New Paintings, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York

2000 • Five Paintings: Stephen Westfall, Gallery of the Department of Art and Art

2000 • History, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

1999 • Stephen Westfall: Neue Arbeiten, Galerie Paal, Munich, Germany

1999 • Stephen Westfall: Abstract Journey, A Twenty Year Survey, Belk Gallery, Western

1999 • Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC

1999 • Stephen Westfall: New Paintings, Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland

1999 • Stephen Westfall: New Paintings, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York

1998 • Stephen Westfall, Galeire Zurcher, Paris, France

1997 • Stephen Westfall: Neue Bilder, Galerie Paal, Munich, Germany

1997 • Stephen Westfall, Galerie Zurcher, Paris, France

1996 • Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland

1996 • Stephen Westfall, Galerie Paal, Munich, Germany

1995 • Stephen Westfall: New Paintings, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York

1994 • Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland

1994 • Galerie Paal, Munich, Germany

1993 • Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York

1993 • Erik Stark Gallery, New York

1991 • Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York

1991 • Pretto Berland Hall, New York

1990 • Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York

1990 • Lawrence Olivier Gallery, Philadelphia

1988 • Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York

1987 • Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York

1984 • Tracey Garet Gallery, New York

1978 • University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

GROUP SHOWS

2017 • Concurrent Exhibitions in Abstraction: Stephen Westfall, Deborah Zlotzky, Jason Karolak, Kate Petley, Don Voisine, Marcelyn McNeil, Wendi Harford, Lloyd Martin, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

2016 • Bedazzled, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx

2016 • Painting Color, LSU School of Art Glassel Galllery, Baton Rouge, LA

2016 • Welcome Back Show, Mason Gross Schoool of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

2016 • Chromatic Space—curated by Jonathan Lippincott, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, BMCC, New York

2016 • Chasing the Rose, Clinton Corners, NY

2016 • The Onward of Art—American Abstract Artists 80th Anniversary Exhibition, curated by Karen Wilken, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, New York

2016 • Visible Histories—American Abstract Artists, curated by Max Weintraub, Morris-Warren Gallery, New York

2015 • Karma Funk Farm—Polly Apfelabum & Stephen Westfall, The Suburban, Milwaukee, WI

2015 • Fiber Optic, Minus Space, Brooklyn

2015 • A Few Days, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York

2015 • Re-Op: “The Responsive Eve” Fifty Years After, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2015 • Salon du Dessin, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York

2015 • Oysters with Lemon, Ventana244, Brooklyn

2014 • Freak Flag, Brian Morris Gallery, New York

2014 • Polly Apfelbaum & Stephen Westfall: Electric Zinnia Field, Kunstgaleriebonn, Bonn, Germany

2014 • Fifty Years of Distinguished Alumni, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

2014 • To Leo, A Tribute from the American Abstract Artists, Slideshow Gallery, Brooklyn

2014 • Sensory Impact, Morgan Stanley World Headquarters, Purhcase, NY

2014 • Geometry Poems—curated by Katherine Mojzsis & Ronna Lebo, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn

2013 • Punchline, The Institute Library, New Haven, CT

2013 • AAA75th Anniversary Print Portfolio, University of Tennessee: Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN

2013 • American Abstract Artists, School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH

2013 • Julian Pretto Gallery Exhibition, Minus Space, Brooklyn

2013 • Welcome Back Show, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ

2013 • Martin Pfeifle Stephen Westfall: Papier/Paper III, Kunstgaleriebonn, Bonn, Germany

2013 • AAA Print Portfolio, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT

2013 • Wit, The Painting Center, New York

2012 • Conceptual Abstraction, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York

2012 • Welcome Back Show, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ

2012 • InsideOutsiders: Mary Heilmann and Friends, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY

2012 • Mind Head, JiM Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain

2012 • The Family Show, ILLE Arts, Amagansett, NY

2012 • The Annual: 2012, National Academy Museum, New York

2011 • American Abstract Artists, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

2011 • ABSTRACTION curated by Janet Kurnatowski, The Icebox and Grey Area, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2011 • Draw the Line, Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York

2011 • Ghost in the Machine: curated by Stephen Westfall, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York

2011 • Reverie: curated by Stephen Westfall, Zürcher Studio, New York

2011 • American Abstract Artists International / 75th Anniversary, Galerie oqbo, Berlin, Germany

2011 • American Abstract Artists / 7thth Anniversary, OK Harris, New York

2011 • Paper A-Z, Sue Scott Gallery, New York

2011 • American Abstract Artists, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2010 • Welcome Back Show, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ

2010 • Lateralisms, The Hogar Collection, Brooklyn

2010 • American Abstract Artists International, The Otranto Castle Museum, Ontranto, Italy

2010 • Ends and Means, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York

2010 • A Continuum of Creativity—Chautauqua Anniversary Show, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York

2009 • Color-Time-Space, curated by Kim Uchiyama and Joanne Freeman, Janest Kurnatowski Gallery and Lohin Geduld Gallery, Brooklyn and New York

2009 • Personal Abstraction, HKJB, Brooklyn

2009 • The Ballad That Becomes An Anthem, ACME, Los Angeles, CA

2008 • Flow Chart, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York

2008 • The Idea of Nature, 33 Bond Gallery, New York

2008 • Present Tense, Spanierman Modern, New York

2008 • One of a Kind; Monoprints, Monotypes, Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown, NY

2007 • Taking Shape, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York

2007 • Lateral Attitudes, Raritan Valley Community College, Sommerville, NJ

2007 • Welcome Back Show, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ

2007 • Written on the Wind: The Flag Project, Rubin Museum of Art, New York

2007 • The Fall Dutch Barn Show, Rose Burlington Fine Art at Lindsey Brown Upstate Studio, Clinton Corners, NY

2007 • Paper, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York

2006 • Close Proximity: Works of Intimate Scale, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, TX

2006 • Entre Chien et Loup, Blue Acier Inc., Tampa, FL

2006 • ArtHouston: Introductions, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, TX

2006 • White II: An Exhibition of White Paintings, Howard Scott Gallery, New York

2006 • Sharon Brant, Edward Shalada, Stephen Westfall, Wooster Arts Space, New York

2006 • Stille Abstraktion: Minimalisms von Internationalem Rang, Galerie im Alten Rathaus, Prien am Ghiemsee, Germany

2005 • IDEAL: Selections from the American Abstract Artists, Metaphor Contemporary Art, New York

2005 • Group Exhibition: Gallery Artists, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York

2005 • Watercurrents 2005, Kouros Gallery, New York

2005 • Optical Simulations, Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh, NY

2004 • Negative Space, The Galeriea Nacional of the Museo de Los Ninos, San Jose, Costa Rica

2004 • The Anxious Image, The Painting Center, New York

2004 • Art for a Landmine Free World, Pace Wilderstein, New York

2004 • The Art of the Definite, curated by Helen Miranda Wilson, DC Moore Gallery, New York

2004 • Abstraction Pure & Impure, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

2004 • Toys in the Attic, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York

2004 • Slightly Off Center: 14 Artists, The Vermont Studio Center at 55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York

2004 • Exhibition for Jurors, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

2004 • Intersections, Douglas Elliman Gallery, New York

2004 • Group Show, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York

2004 • Eccentric Spaces: The Fiction of Place, N3 Project Space, Brooklyn

2002 • Working the Grid, Lafayette College, Easton, PA

2002 • 177th Annual Invitational Exhibition, National Academy of Design Museum, New York

2002 • Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Design Museum, New York

2002 • New Year New York New Work, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York

2002 • The Tipping Point, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia,

2001 • Stephen Westfall & Sheila Kramer, Rico, Brooklyn

2001 • Beauty Without Regret, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2001 • Abstraction and Immanence, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York

2000 • Painting Abstraction, Studio School, New York

1999 • Selected Work from the 1998-99 Manhattan Exhibition Season, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

1999 • Abstract Journey: A Twenty Year Survey, Belk Gallery Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC

1999 • OM, Dorsky Gallery, New York

1999 • Compliments, Ernest Rubenstien Gallery, New York

1998 • Munchen—New York, Kunstbunker Tumulka, Munich, Germany

1998 • Real Fiction, Wigmore Fine Art, London, England

1998 • Utz: A Collected Exhibition, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York

1997 • After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting After 1970, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY

1997 • Abstraction Index, Condeso Lawler Gallery, New York

1997 • Abstraction/abstractions, geometries provisoires, Musee d’art modern, Saint-Etienne, France

1997 • FIAC, Galerie Zurcher, Paris, France

1996 • Bare Bones, TZ ART and Co., New York

1996 • Trois Collections d’Artistes, Martin Disler, Gunther Forg, Oliver Mosset, Musee Cantonale La-Chaux-De-Fonds, Switzerland

1996 • Radikale Malerie, Galerie Paal, Munich, Germany

1996 • Balancing Act, Room, New York

1995 • Minimal Optimal, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York

1995 • The Uninvited—Bill Barette, Ricko Espinet, Brian Wood, Apex Art, New York

1995 • Critics as Artists, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York

1995 • Geometric Abstraction, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD

1995 • Contemplative Geometry, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York

1994 • Geometry en Question, Galerie Zurcher, Paris, France

1994 • The Conservative Vocabulary, An American Vision, Galerie Schlegel, Zurich, Switzerland

1994 • Whateva, Dru Arstark, New York

1993 • Uses of Geometry, Snyder Gallery, New York

1993 • New Grid Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York

1993 • Basel Art Fair, Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York

1993 • Paintings, Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York

1993 • Jours tranquilles a Clichy, Paul Goyannes, Paris France and Tennisport, Long Island City, NY

1992 • Geometric Strategies, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York

1992 • Behind Bars, Thread Waxing Space, New York

1992 • Works on Paper, Diane Brown Gallery, New York

1991 • Conceptual Abstraction, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

1991 • 18 Artists From New York, Galerie Lohrl, Monchengadbach, Germany

1991 • Figuring Abstraction, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York

1991 • Just Painting, Trenkman Gallery, New York

1991 • Processing Syntax, John Good Gallery, New York

1991 • Post War Geometric Concepts, 1945-1990, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York

1990 • The Ends of Paintings: The Edges of Abstractions, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1990 • Group Show, Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York

1990 • Abstract Painting, Lawrence Olivier Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1990 • Specific Metaphysics, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York

1989 • Expressive Geometries, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA

1989 • John McCracken, Oliver Mosset, Stephen Westfall, Terrain, San Francisco, CA

1989 • Abstract Options, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

1989 • Currents 6: Abstraction, Milwaukee Museum of Art, WI

1989 • Small Works, New Abstract Painting, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA

1989 • Neo York, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

1989 • Newcastle Salutes New York, Newcastle Polytechnic, Newcastle, England

1988 • Works on Paper, Shea & Becker Gallery, New York

1988 • Formal, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York and Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL

1988 • The Four Corners of Abstract Painting, IGT< New York

1987 • Fiction/Nonfiction Gallery.

1987 • D’Ornamentation, Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York

1987 • Zurich Forum, Zurich.

1987 • Art Across the River, Outer Limit Gallery, New York

1987 • The Four Corners of Abstraction, Elisabeth McDonald Gallery, New York

1987 • Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

1986 • Paintings and Objects, Postmasters Gallery, New York

1986 • Abstraction/Abstraction, Paul Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL and Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

1986 • Red, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York

1986 • Abstraction Rediscovered, Rosa Elman Gallery, New York

1986 • Movements, Philip Dash Gallery, New York

1986 • From the Gallery, Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York

1986 • Spirit Tracks: Large Abstract Drawings, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York

1985 • Final: Love, Cash/Newhouse Gallery, New York

1985 • Critics and Dealers, Mo David Gallery, New York

1985 • Humanist Abstraction: Geometric patinting of the 50s and 80s, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York

1985 • Between A & D, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York

1985 • Precious, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York

1984 • Currents 6: Abstraction, Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI

1984 • Small Works, New Abstract Painting, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA

1984 • Neo York, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

1984 • Newcastle Salutes New York, Newcastle POytechnic, England

1980 • Abstraction 1980, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

1978 • West Hubbard Gallery, Chicago, IL

1974 • New Talent, Edward Thorpe Gallery