Stephen Westfall: Better Angels

Stephen Westfall (b. 1953) is a painter known for his particular brand of geometric abstraction. He received his MFA in 1978 from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his first solo exhibition, in 1984 at Tracey Garet in New York's East Village, drew reviews noting that approach. Exhibitions followed through the 1980s and 1990s at Daniel Newburg Gallery in New York, Galerie Paal in Munich and Galerie Wilma Lock in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and in 1995 at Andre Emmerich Gallery in New York, followed by several exhibitions at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. and Galerie Zurcher in Paris. Recent work has been shown at Kunstgalerie Bonn, David Richard Gallery in Santa Fe and Alexandre Gallery in New York, which represents him. He taught for twenty years as a professor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. His exhibition is on view at Serious Topics in Los Angeles.