Michael West: We Come Alive and Dream offers a portrait of the pioneering female Abstract Expressionist painter Michael (Corinne) West. Like her contemporaries Lee Krasner and Elaine de Kooning, West struggled to gain traction in the post-war male-dominated art scene. In addition to creating compositions that are simultaneously highly emotive, personal, and deeply intellectual, West was a prolific writer of poetry and aesthetic theory. This exhibition, which takes its name from the final line of her 1945 poem “The New Art,” explores the relationship between her poems, essays, notes, and her spirited gesture painting.