As if developed from memory, West’s latest collection channels imagery from a familiar past life. Just as the DaDa artists utilized art objects in unconventional forms produced by unconventional methods, West employees coincidence as a means of production. In the title piece, MINUTES, West captures the chance appearance of a bug on her windowsill, overshadowed by a blurred timer in the background. The image is striking with the distinct outline of the bug’s antennae forming a heart above the lifeless figure, also intimate through the juxtaposition of the subjects and the happenstance that unifies them.

Bill Phelps eliminates all the props, save his model, and plunges into the ocean, literally and symbolically in the fourteen, black and white limited edition archival prints featured in his second solo exhibition with the Robin Rice Gallery. Using a tight close-up as his point of view, Phelps submerges your senses into the sparkling surf, where occasionally a naked body lurks suggestively, playing in and out of your sight.