Contributor: Macy West

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Profile: Macy West is a Philadelphia-based painter and art educator making work about hope not yet realized, using abstraction as a means of refiguration. Her paintings deal with sight, literally, and as a metaphor for knowing. She received her MFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture in May 2025 and her BFA from Louisiana State University in May 2021. From 2021–23, Macy taught high school art and physics at a private school in Covington, Louisiana, an experience that reinforced the relationship between education and her artistic practice. Recent shows include her solo show Manifold at Temple Contemporary in 2025 and Fuzzy Forms, a group show in Stella Elkins Gallery in 2024 (Philadelphia).

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