Steven Lee West

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Artist Statement

Steven Lee West is an artist, who involves himself in posters, environmental art, and video. Mr. West recently returned from a trip to Eastern Europe. While in Chisinau, Moldova he participated as a panelist and lecturer in the first symposium on contemporary art, "Open Works". Moldova held its exhibition "6 Kilometres", the first exhibition of contemporary art in that country. While there he had the opportunity to visit Bucharest, Romania and see the exhibition "Experimentation". The posters produced where placed on the streets of New York City and Venice, Italy. The environments are constructed of furniture and walls, exploring the architectural ideas presented by Frank Lloyd Wright, and the dilemmas posed by those philosophies. A video piece title "The Silent Cartridge", about the massacre of El Mozote, a village in El Salvador. The cartridge used in the execution of the village was produced in Lake City, Missouri. The story is about the families who produced the cartridge and its eventuality.

Artist Bio

Solo Exhibitions:

1994 S.O.F.A., Horodner Romley Gallery, New York. N.Y.
1980 Union Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Harbor. MI
1979 Charles McGee Gallery, Detroit. MI

Group Exhibitions:

1995 Works for a Fun House, curated by Sue Canning, Saul Ostrow and Yvonne
Muranushi, E.S. Vandam, New York. N.Y.

Underlying Architexts, The Bone Gallery, New York. N.Y.

1994 Crash, organized by Robert Reynolds and Thomas Zummer, Thread
Waxing Space, New York. N.Y.

Artychoke TV, organized by Kenny Schachter, Flamingo East, New York. N.Y.

1993 The Rag Trade, organized by Saul Ostrow, InterArt Center, New York. N.Y.

Things To Make Your Eyes Happy, Muranushi Lederman Productions, New York. N.Y.

Transient Decor, curated by Saul Ostrow and Stuart Horodner, Roger Smith Hotel, New York. N.Y.

What You Are About To See Is Real, curated by Muranushi Lederman, Art - Chicago International, Chicago. IL

1992 In Context: What Is It About Modern Life That Makes It So&ldots;, curated by Saul Ostrow, Rosenburg Gallery, New York. N.Y.

1991 Europa/America Works on Paper, Molicaa Guidarte Gallery, New York. N.Y.

1982 Detroit Artist Market, Detroit. MI

1980 Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit. MI Exhibition Sites 1, 2 &3, Detroit MI

Video Screening:

1995 The Silent Cartridge (22 Minutes), AC Project Room, New York, N.Y.

The Leslie Thorton Workshop Video Screening, Donnell Library, New

York. N.Y. and L.A.S.A. Conference Exhibition, Washington D.C.

Performance Work:

1984 Taller Latin Americano, Artist Call, New York. N.Y.

1992 Franklin Furnace, New York. N.Y.

Poster Projects:

1993 Anatomy and Perspective, STREET ACTION, New York. N. Y. (February 15)

1992 Anatomy and Basin, STREET ACTION, New York. N. Y. (June 2)

Anatomy and Water, STREET ACTION, New York. N. Y. (March 24)

Anatomy and Dreamer, STREET ACTION, New York. N. Y. (February 18)

1992 Worker and Virgin Saint, STREET ACTION, New York. N. Y. (November 9)

Awards:

1994 The Artist/Mentor Project, Film/Video Arts, New York. N.Y.

The Leslie Thorton Workshop

Lectures:

1996 "Open Works,« Seminar, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau Moldova

Bibliography:

Shoichiro Higughi, Series 26: Art in New York Today, Idea No. 228, Sept., 1991.

Lucy Lippard, Art and Politics, Questions on a Politicized Performance Art, Art in America, Oct. 1984.

The Thing, Electronic Bulletin Board, Feb. 23 1993

Tribes, A Gathering of the Tribes: A Magazine of the Arts, Spring/Summer, 1993