Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to announce Tethered, an exhibition by Randy West.
Randy West creates the majority of his photo-based projects as series with marked attention to the form, material, and tactile quality of his subject—in this case, the architectural structure and abstract shape of crumpled photographic paper.
For West, the Tethered series began as an aggressive act of cutting and throwing away rejected images--his own discarded works that he has shredded and balled in his hands. West forces these scraps of photographic paper into sculpted gestures with the intent of creating a new two-dimensional work acting as a purposeful response to the original.