West Street Gallery

May 25

Open for baseness — GR

Mar 30

YOU TOLD ME THE OTHER NIGHT
OPENING RECEPTION THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 7-9PM

West Street Gallery is pleased to present “You Told Me the Other Night.” The group show features new work by Sam Anderson, Trisha Baga and Nick Parker, Ian Cheng, Greg Fong, Grayson Revoir, Anicka Yi.

You told me the other night
That you Googled yourself
And found a boring YouTube video
Made by a high school kid with your
Name. In the video he said his
Name, you said, and it was weird.
Somewhere in something
That you sang to me that you had written
This occurred, something about you having
No name, or a name that might as well be no
name at all. Or no identity. And the dead
Generality of your childhood you’d woken
Up from.
—Excerpt from “Coeur de Lion,” by Ariana Reines

WEST STREET GALLERY - 395 West St. #2 - gallery@weststreet.info

Dec 12

GRAYSON REVOIR GIVES INTIMATE INTERVIEW

What about your cell phone? Do you leave it on when you work? Do you like getting calls or texts in the studio?

G- To be honest, I don’t think I really notice it much. I leave it on all the time. When I do notice I have a text message or an email I get excited. I feel really excited when people contact me. When someone is telling me about some event or asking me a question I want to know what that is right away. I like having that device. I will usually have it on somewhere in the studio and maybe it will get covered by a shirt or a tool and then I forget about it until I find it again. I guess it adds to the distraction but I try and embrace it.

READ ON.

Oct 12

THIS THURSDAY NIGHT (THE 13TH, THAT’S TONIGHT) AT MARTOS GALLERY, 540 W 29TH STREET. HOPE YOU CAN MAKE IT. —MM

Sep 2

AN EVENING WITH GRAYSON REVOIR. PHOTO BY KYLE THURMAN—AG

Aug 10

OK!!! WHATEVER???—AG

Jul 5

LOTS OF WSG FRIENDS IN THE SAM FALLS-CURATED SHOW, “PRODUCTIVE STEPS,” UPSTATE NEXT WEEKEND—MM

May 21

Dec 15

WEST STREET GALLERY AT NADA AND GRAYSON REVOIR FEATURED IN ARTCARDS.—AG

Dec 14

OOPS… WEST STREET GALLERY WENT TO NADA

(IT WAS FUN)

NADA ART FAIR, MIAMI BEACH, DECEMBER 2–5, 2010
SAM FALLS, GRAYSON REVOIR
BOOTH P6

West Street Gallery is pleased to present a solo show of new work by New York-based artist Sam Falls. The works will rotate daily throughout the course of the NADA fair.

Falls’ practice emerges from lessons of luminosity and contact learned from the field of photography. Featured here, his “Fade” sequence involves leafs of construction paper, variously masked, exposed to the sun to create indexes, and two-dimensional reliefs. The resulting images infer burning, blinding, entropy, depth, time, preservation, and loss; the “Fades” also demand on the part of the viewer an interpretation at the axis of process, narrative and illustration. At NADA, Falls also displays his “Crumpled Paper” sculptures: light, fragile structures comprising paper cast in resin. By this casting process, the artist simulates a historical, even museological approach, transforming chance compositions into structures preserved.

The artist will present a unique, 32-page artist book, published by Gottlund Verlag. On Saturday, NADA will include Falls in its event and performance programming, featuring his video, Holding Pattern (Example 7) (2010).

West Street Gallery also coordinates an off-booth installation. New York-based artist Grayson Revoir “builds out” a room at the Deauville Hotel by creating site-specific simulations of public furniture.