tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63185496552864270272024-03-14T01:58:25.653-07:00NEWSKim Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661355569203562764noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318549655286427027.post-31533035677840677482015-02-02T11:28:00.000-08:002015-02-02T11:48:12.922-08:00Crushed!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://girlcrush.la/item/the-painter-and-accidental-muralist-kim-west/">GirlCrush.LA</a> is a blog I've stumbled onto in the past, and I've found it to be a rabbit hole of really good goodness. Wendy Withers writes the blog, and it features interviews with a seemingly random cross-section of women who are for one reason or another, inspirational to Wendy and ultimately, to the reader as well. She asks questions that I always want to read the answers to, and shares pictures that offer a little bit of voyeuristic satisfaction.<br />
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I was therefore very flattered and a little nervous when Wendy approached me a few months ago and invited me to participate. It took me almost five months to get comfortable with my answers to her questions, but I finally did and you can now read them <a href="http://girlcrush.la/item/the-painter-and-accidental-muralist-kim-west/">here</a>.<br />
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<br />Kim Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661355569203562764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318549655286427027.post-84834454985027546492015-02-02T11:02:00.002-08:002015-02-02T11:04:45.951-08:0010 Best L.A. Street Art Murals of 2014<span style="color: #333333; font-family: serif12, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;">Love a Top Ten list, and what a fun way to finish up 2014. </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: serif12, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;">Thanks LA Weekly, Isaac Simpson and Fredrik Lisdskog for including 'Ode To Bohemia' in your round up:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #333333; font-family: serif12, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;">Kim West's gorgeous nature scenes have been bringing life to the Arts District since 2009's violent </span><a href="http://www.kimwest.com/welcometohollywood.html" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0053b8; cursor: pointer; font-family: serif12, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><i style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Welcome to Hollywood</i>.</a><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #333333; font-family: serif12, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;"> The mother of two spent weeks painting this work, </span><i style="background-color: #f6f6f6; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: serif12, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ode to Bohemia</i><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #333333; font-family: serif12, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;">, in March after being given the directive "do with it what you will." West, inspired by the corner of Seventh and Mill as a "literal intersection of the haves and have nots," sought to take viewers on on a journey across the physical length of the walls. "Conceptually, the piece begins in loss, and then becomes about memories, and the will to manifest from them a place to visit," says West, "a sort of daydreamed, fractured recollection of reality." </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #333333; font-family: serif12, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;">Full LAWeekly article <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/arts/10-best-la-street-art-murals-of-2014-5279399">here</a>.</span>Kim Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661355569203562764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318549655286427027.post-70364625921356678562014-05-13T12:15:00.002-07:002014-06-13T10:35:09.165-07:00website update out-take: the story of painting a mural in the company of a bird<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">The last post here was in September. So much for the resolution I made at the beginning of the school year to make a post a week. (Many moons out of school but September still seems like the beginning of the year to me.) At least I'm current (mostly) on </span><a href="http://instagram.com/westkim" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">instagram</a><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">.</span><br />
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The other thing I'm very behind on is my website update. It hasn't been done since 2009. I'm almost finished with the tedious task of culling, organizing, and captioning all the images of work I've been making between then and now. The new site will up in a week or so, and will basically be the same, but updated with new sections, including one for murals. I've been writing some extended captions for these, small tid-bits meant to be maybe a paragraph or two. I got carried away when recalling the process for this mural, as you can read below these progress shots:<br />
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Most of the murals I’ve painted have required some kind of scissor lift, my definite least favorite part of mural making. It’s really easy (and my preference) to get lost in the work of painting, to lose time, and to not be totally aware of what is going on outside of my head; i.e., not a great way to conduct yourself if you are a somewhat klutzy person standing atop a swaying platform 30 feet in the air. </div>
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It was another situation altogether with this project: a mural to span the consecutive staircases of an open plan, 3 level loft space. Because neither scissor lift nor scaffolding would be feasible, a couple of articulating ladders placed on the stairs became the elevators of circumstance. Ironically, this plan left me missing the dreaded scissor lift, or at least its level surface and railing.</div>
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The project was exciting though. So, onward. Upward!</div>
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Since the completed mural would be viewed from 3 different vantage points, yet be mostly centered at the middle/mezzanine level, I wanted it to visually function as 3 separate but cohesive parts. From a drippy, washy bottom level, the background for the mid-level focal point of a figure blowing golden bubbles would emerge. There would be a super saturated color palette across the middle level, made up of layers and layers of more washy areas. As gold leafed bubbles floated up the staircase, they’d drift past more layered washes that became more delicate and more subtle in color as they rose. </div>
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This composition and idea dictated that there would be gold leaf at the top height of the mural. Gold leaf application requires the use of both hands, so there’d be a few no-hands on the ladder moments. For the very highest no-hands bubble, the ladder would be set on the third floor landing edge and, as such, there were three unappealing (unlikely? potential? this is earthquake country!) scenarios I couldn’t mentally escape: 1) falling off the ladder and landing on the landing — though, just regular risk there, akin to a normal fall from a ladder extended over 20 feet; 2) falling from the ladder and bumping straight down the consecutive stairways; 3) slipping from the ladder and heading right over the side of the third floor landing balcony ledge and drop straight to the next floor of the space, some 40ish feet below. </div>
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Before any actual work had begun, I had completely come to terms with the no-hands on the ladder/ladder on the stairs situations. I’m careful. It would be fine. But near the end of the project, I changed my mind. I did not want to paint the last bubble — the one that was smallest, but significantly higher than the rest. </div>
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Because there was a bird. A “somewhat aggressive” bird, I had been told. </div>
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As the work began to wrap up, the physical distraction of the bird — a rainbow parrot who had free reign of the loft space, and full use of his wings — started to become problematic. At first he seemed mostly to prefer perching on the chandelier over my supply table, were he could both easily poop into my coffee cup, and hover over my brushes and jars. Though not productive, we eventually came to an understanding — when not sipping, I kept a napkin covering my coffee. And when I required access to my supplies, I would simply stand at a distance, wave my arms frantically, and shout until he moved. </div>
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The coffee cup poops I didn’t take personally, but my perception changed when he started buzzing the tower*. I'd be on the ladder, on the stairs, paint brush in hand, and out of nowhere a rainbow-ed blur would head towards me, a terrifying squawk preceding and accompanying his flight. As the fly-bys became more frequent and incrementally closer to my personal bubble of ladder working space, I held on tighter with my one free hand, and my inner debate about the necessity of the last, highest bubble became more heated.</div>
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I was counting on the idea that after so many layers, so many drips, and so many bubbles were finished, so too would be the piece. I kept at the work and continued to negotiate with myself about the potential last bubble. Did it really need this last bubble? Yes, probably. There was a sliver of a window carved out of a recess at the top of the ceiling, above the top staircase landing, and, it just made sense — the highest bubble should suggest that it might keep on floating. </div>
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I cleaned up almost everything over the course of two days — removing all the tape and protective paper from the stairs (which took hours), touching up here and finishing touches there, packing up almost all of the paint, jars, brushes, rollers, extenders and trays. I did this while studying and looking to really make 100% sure that this last bubble absolutely needed doing, and trying to convince myself that it didn’t. </div>
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The piece was working. The color was good. The composition was right. The thousands of layers and drips made from straight up opaque paint and paint mixed with a variety of translucent thinning and glazing agents were all doing their jobs - I was told it looked lit from within. I agreed. It looked good. But it also needed that last fucking bubble. And the stupid bird would not leave me alone.</div>
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In retrospect, there are at least a dozen, more well thought out strategies that I should have/could have employed. Instead, at the time, resigned, I only waited for a moment when I thought the bird seemed calm and distracted on the first level of the loft. When he seemed so, I quietly, feverishly went to work on the ladder with a bare minimum of gold leafing supplies in my hands. </div>
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I stared at my shirt on the floor. The lump within the shirt was not moving. I totally killed the bird. I began to freak. (Hello, I’m finished with the mural! Do you love it? Fantastic! Oh! And I’m so sorry, but I killed your bird.) Maybe I could I buy a replacement bird and they’d never know? Poor little pretty bird. </div>
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In my prickly, sweaty panic, I noticed a little flicker. And then something like my shirt sort of hopping. Maybe I just broke it’s wing? Or something else repairable? At that point, the terror changed a little — if the bird was fine, he was going to be crazier than ever. Also he was still in my shirt. And if something was broken, that was still very far from ideal. And the bubble still wasn’t finished. </div>
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I gently dragged the shirt/bird into the closest room with a door. The bathroom. The door was the pocket kind and I closed it almost the whole way. With the longest paintbrush I had, I stuck my arm though the cracked door, and flipped the shirt off of the bird. Who was, of course really, really mad and totally fine. Totally fine!!! He immediately flew up to the top of the shower wall and screamed at me for the rest of our time together. I finished the last bubble from the safety that only a bathroom’s pocket door can provide. The work was finished, I packed up and cleaned up the final bits, opened the bathroom door, and ran. </div>
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sometimes i like to be working on something related to the thing, but not on the thing itself. big painting adjacent. that's how <a href="http://kimwestnews.blogspot.com/2013/09/101.html" target="_blank">the 101 wall</a> got started. <br />
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if i'm mixing up water based paints, i mostly use disposable, slightly slippery pads of palette paper. depending on which type of paint (watercolor, gouache,
acrylic) is applied, the pigment can float a little and then seep into
the medium or water, becoming a pool with shifts in color depth.
it can separate. maybe it merges with a neighboring puddle. thicker paint just sits
there, like an island, letting water go around. eventually the
island color bleeds into the surrounding viscosity. i save some of the
paper palettes. road maps and color stories. <br />
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sketchbooks have contour drawings of studio plants and notes, written and drawn. definitions, facts i won't otherwise remember, lyrics, snippets of overheard conversations or interviews, observations, thoughts almost lost, passages from poems and novels, titles.<br />
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i started putting the palettes and stuff from the sketchbooks together. intentional distraction. warm ups. studio calisthenics. i.e., big painting adjacent type work. <br />
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a few years ago, a friend in tech made an off-hand suggestion that i should create a google alert system for my name. he figured it could be a good way for me to be aware of possible online references to a mural i had just completed. so i did. for a while, nothing. then suddenly: alert! kim west the realtor in east connecticut listed a property. if she detailed a property that had been freshly painted - multiple alerts. sometimes kim west the sleep lady had done something in a studio somewhere. alert! in any case, the alerts for the real estate kim west & the sleep lady kim west were relatively few and far between. also they were random and entertaining enough that i was never motivated to prioritize a spare minute to follow the google link to figure out a search parameter modification, or an altogether undo.<br />
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yeah. kim and kanye. in both quality and increasing quantity, the new alerts became oddly funny to me. i figured my inbox situation could potentially migrate from amusing to seriously annoying if those two ever got hitched. and, then of course...worse. they went and had the baby. alert! alert! all day, every day. <br />
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the other place kim & kanye infiltrate my virtual name space? instagram. if you are a glutton for bizarre entertainment and/or punishment (depending on your perspective), check out the serendipitous hashtag <a href="http://statigr.am/tag/kimwest" target="_blank">#kimwest</a> . <br />
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today, the 101 wall in the studio grew.<br />
<br />Kim Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661355569203562764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318549655286427027.post-89499133992395537102013-09-05T15:10:00.000-07:002013-09-05T19:36:44.619-07:00TBT // take the kiddo to work dayseptember, 2003:<br />
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ten years later.<br />
same kiddo ten years older with one little brother making him the big.<br />
a different state, a different studio by four.<br />
a long way from the hip riding days.<br />
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today we drew plants. we were blind contour-ers and sweaty sketchers. we battled the heat with an aggressive fan, and blew a fuse. we transferred drawings to transparencies and projected. we drank ice cold iced tea. <br />
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Kim Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661355569203562764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318549655286427027.post-4947209977811595192013-09-04T12:47:00.000-07:002013-09-04T13:25:09.966-07:00procrastinationtoday is my little-est's first day at preschool, and the drop off situation was *less than ideal*.<br />
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studio procrastination is, therefore, inevitable.<br />
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enter anxiety driven crafting. one of my oldest bff's is getting hitched anyday now, and crafting goods for her par-tay is, like, the perfect thing for today. <br />
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wine bottles bathed and de-labled, check.<br />
gold leaf, check.<br />
pandora playlists blaring, check.<br />
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<br />Kim Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661355569203562764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318549655286427027.post-59535990048073418192013-06-19T22:24:00.000-07:002013-06-19T23:02:37.175-07:00<h2 style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">new painting - <i>that pink sky night</i>, <i>yosemite</i> - finito!</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i> t</i><i>hat pink sky night, yosemite</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> 60" x 65"</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> acrylic, gouache, ink on raw canvas</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> 2013</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>that pink sky night, yosemite</i>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">it was that pink sky night.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">we were in yosemite. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">there was an end of summer kind of sunset. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">it was when
the deer with fuzzy
antlers were all over the place. they walked through the park
crosswalks, on the streets, and between the slowing traffic. they had no
fear. our friend said, "deer in velvet!" and that sounded to me like the
name of a band or something -- i had never heard the phrase. deer in
velvet: when a highly
vascular, velvety looking skin covers a deer's antlers as they grow,
providing oxygen and nutrients to the growing bone. once the antlers
reach full size, the velvet is shed, the bone dies, and the dead
bone structure becomes the mature antlers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">it was that time we saw the deer in velvet. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">when we wanted more. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">when we were hoping for a bear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>that pink sky night, yosemite</i> is the first finished painting in a new series of work based on personal memories. there will be more paintings
inspired by that pink sky night, and there is a studio full of works in progress that include palm trees,
pools, plants, highways, and some people, too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">more, soon!</span></div>
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Kim Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661355569203562764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318549655286427027.post-46755173245196816842012-10-29T12:12:00.000-07:002012-10-29T13:22:01.336-07:00poketo x typetruck TONITE!c'mon downtown this evening for the poketo x typetruck letterpress "type or treat" halloween event! <br />
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it's going to be fun. there will be treats. there will be wine. there will be a <a href="http://type-truck.com/the-truck/" target="_blank">moveable type truck</a>. and there will be limited edition letterpress prints from artwork by <a href="http://katebingamanburt.com/" target="_blank">kate bingaman burt</a>, <a href="http://michaelchsiung.com/#news" target="_blank">michael c. hsiung</a> and me. <br />
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here's a sneak peak of the drawing i made that's since been turned into a letterpress printing plate for the event:<br />
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this was a really enjoyable project for me for many reasons. first and foremost, getting to work with <a href="http://poketo.com/about/" target="_blank">the peeps at poketo</a> was great...i love their store & their vibe. couple that with <a href="http://type-truck.com/" target="_blank">kyle durrie's moveable type letterpress truck</a> (i'm still blown away by the brilliance of her combo), and i'm all smiles.<br />
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while painting will always be my true studio love, i confess to crushing on printmaking in general. there have definitely been on again/off again affairs with woodcuts, colographs, and monoprints over the years. but letterpress, by nature of the equipment required, plays a little hard to get as far a printmaking techniques go. i love that this type of printing is so old fashioned, mechanical, and that the results are so tactile and, in general, very romantic. this is the first time i've had an opportunity to have my own drawing made into letterpress prints, and i'm really excited about it. <br />
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what's with the bear and the kid in the bunny costume, you ask?<br />
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as a little kid, i grew up between monmouth beach, nj & long island, ny. my uncle drove a big rig semi-truck cross country. as i got older i would randomly recall a dream i'd had that went like so: one super sunny winter afternoon, my uncle rolled up in front of my grandmother's home, where i'd been playing out in the snow with my cousins. my uncle waved us over to the back of his trailer, grandly unhinged the lock and threw open the doors to reveal an enormous, full-bodied roaring polar bear. my cousins and i stood awkwardly in front of the bear until the flash popped on a camera.<br />
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a few years ago, my grandmother died and i was going through the photos
that didn't make it into her albums. a polaroid of me, my cousins, and
my uncle's taxidermy hunting trophy floated out of a pile of photos. turns out
that scene wasn't a dream after all, but i love that i thought it was
for all those years. <br />
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i've made many self-portrait drawings and paintings based on the polar bear imagery from that dream, and then from the photo as well. when playing with ideas for what to make for the letterpress/typetruck/poketo event, i thought of this image and how changing the snow-suit into a halloween costume could maybe be fun. <br />
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nostalgia, memory, bears and bunnies. happy halloween!<br />
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also, here's a <a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-lh-moveable-type-letterpress-truck-20121023,0,7751699.story?track=rss" target="_blank">nice article</a> about the event over at the la times. <br />
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if you're in la today, please do come by and say hi:<br />
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poketo flagship<br />
820 east 3rd street<br />
la, ca 90013<br />
5-8pm<br />
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<a href="http://poketo.com/">poketo</a> and <a href="http://powerandlightpress.com/about-me/">kyle durrie</a> (along with her amazing <i><a href="http://type-truck.com/the-truck/">moveable printing press truck</a></i>!!!) are teaming up with a few artists (<a href="http://katebingamanburt.com/">kate bingaman burt</a>, <a href="http://michaelchsiung.com/#news">michael hsuing</a>, and moi) for "TYPE or TREAT"... a halloween letterpress event. it's free and open to the public. and guess what else? there will be complimentary, limited edition letterpressed prints & masks for those who attend...guests can choose a plate that has been created by one of the artists, and print it in kyle's truck. so cool!! there will also be sweets & treats. all ages welcome. please stop by and say hello!<br />
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monday, oct. 29th, 5-8pm. poketo store, 820 e 3rd street, arts district, la, 90013Kim Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661355569203562764noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318549655286427027.post-77349546265222171032012-06-28T14:46:00.001-07:002012-06-28T14:58:21.059-07:00.y.e.l.l.o.w.yesterday i was thinking all about yellow.<br />
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back in the art-school-day, one of my first painting professors causally/ironically mentioned that "yellow paintings don't sell". though i smile a little every time that sentence pops into my head, which it literally does each time i use any shade of yellow, i've never bothered to wonder if that thought on yellow was my professor's sole opinion/experience, or if maybe he had heard it somewhere.<br />
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maybe the phrase was referencing the book <a href="http://www.jackwhiteartist.com/pages/books.htm">"the mystery of making it"</a>?, where the author, jack white, states, "there is one color that has always been difficult to sell. yellow." (for the record and for better and/or maybe worse, i stopped reading self-help books for artists after reading one given to me upon graduation from art school. the advice in that book included the suggestion for the would be successful artist to "wear capes, preferably black or deep purple." this was to be done in general, but especially to openings. also of importance was that, if aiming for a successful career as a painter, the said painter should find & keep a wife.) <br />
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the other thing that i sometimes think about when thinking about yellow, is that book <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Wallpaper">"the yellow wallpaper."</a> yikes. <br />
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and, from a long list of hero's, ben shahn: "how do you paint <a href="http://rogallery.com/Shahn_Ben/w-524/shahn-beatitudes.html">yellow wheat against a yellow sky</a>? you paint it jet-black."<br />
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i like yellow: sun. lemons. champagne. butterflies. school buses. 14k. safety vests. sand. egg yolks. i paint with yellow often. i've never shied away from it, nor from any other color for that matter.<br />
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got a 5gallon bucket of egg yolk yellow when initially choosing
the colors to begin work on the wildebeest mural. but, after painting
the majority of the wall mint green (mint green!), i've had cold feet on
using the yellow for anything other than tinting up or down some blue
or green or softly coloring some white. i've been second
guessing it. 'til yesterday. there is a lot of square footage and it's not easy to
physically erase quickly if it stinks. (see earlier post about fear of
public painting failure!)<br />
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deep breath, very long extension pole,
and some egg yolk yellow along with some fluro-yellow/water/poly
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yesterday. fingers crossed i'm still into it when i head back! <br />
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<br />Kim Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661355569203562764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318549655286427027.post-38706337553750296402012-06-25T13:22:00.000-07:002012-06-25T13:32:10.199-07:00#InstaThxi've become a little bit obsessed with instagram. i love it. today i found this post of niceness:<br />
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#instaLike all the likes :) thanks guys, especially <a href="http://web.stagram.com/p/191134772820675301_10793297">@instagrafite</a> for posting, and @pause12 for shooting!<br />
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and, while i'm at it, thanks paul solomon for the opportunity to paint this wall - you are the best! i am always super humbled & flattered by your patronage. <br />
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xo, <a href="http://followgram.me/westkim">@westkim</a> (if u want to find or follow me on instagram, that is!)<br />
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working in public can make me feel like i have to get everything right the first time. it's kind of a mental stress battle for me. my studio painting process is more or less solitary, and part of the reason for that is the intentional allowance for misstep and experiments gone awry. at best, there is inspiration for something new, or beauty to be extracted in the fixing. at worst, there is just a mess to be cleaned up, painted over, or thrown out. <br />
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i always have a plan when beginning a painting on an outdoor wall. but just like when working on canvas or paper in the studio - sometimes the idea works, and sometimes it doesn't. stressing about whether the plan is going to go well or not while making the work is not constructive, and i have to work hard at keeping that negativity at bay while making decisions.<br />
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there's also the issue of leaving the work in an unfinished state at the end of a day. out in the open. it freaks me out.<br />
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then again, working outside of the studio is also a little bit liberating. maybe it's ok to show an imperfect process. maybe its ok, and even instructive, to have strangers ask, "why didn't you stop <i>there</i>?", or, "it's done? <i>really</i>? are you sure?". outside of the studio/gallery, there is a different kind of accessibility to the work and its making. the ensuing critique can be interesting and/or entertaining. <br />
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random guy passing by: "too bad about the rain yesterday, huh?"<br />
me: "what do you mean?"<br />
random guy passing by (pointing to my painting): "all those drips."<br />
me: "those are on purpose."<br />
random guy passing by: "oh."<br />
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small child: "i really like those colors."<br />
me: "thanks!"<br />
small child: "your pants are like, really dirty with paint."<br />
me: "yeah...that happens!"<br />
small child: "so, are you, like, a REAL painter?" <br />
me: "yeahup!"<br />
small child: "so, like, that's what you DO?"<br />
me: "yes." <br />
small child: "what's your name?"<br />
me: "kim."<br />
small child: "kim WHO?"<br />
me: "kim west." <br />
small child: "i've never heard of you." <br />
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and with that, here you go: a process montage of my latest (completed) mural. (<a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/62909726015072391/">this one</a> is <i>still</i> in the works.) enjoy!<br />
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the one with the bubbles is on e3rd st, downtown los angeles/arts district, framed by some blooming jasmine, on part of a wall that is sandwiched between <a href="http://www.wurstkuche.com/">wurstkuche</a>, <a href="http://www.apolisglobal.com/common-gallery/">apolis common gallery</a> and the soon to open <a href="http://poketo.com/blog/category/los-angeles/">poketo flagship store</a>!<br />
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thanks again & xo <a href="http://www.yookamusic.com/ymn/jessstroup">jess</a> for the music. <br />
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<br />Kim Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661355569203562764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318549655286427027.post-16863906548178172412012-06-05T01:50:00.000-07:002012-06-05T01:55:32.477-07:00wolves & pink jeanswolves (actually, coyotes! but everyone calls them wolves, so....at this point, wolves they may be!) looking good with pink jeans. then again, what doesn't look good with pink. i love pink.<br />
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my buddy <a href="http://www.madisonandgrow.com/company-bio/">teresa</a> over at <a href="http://www.madisonandgrow.com/">madison&grow</a> stumbled across my work as the backdrop for these cute pix from <a href="http://theeffortlesschic.com/about/">the effortless chic</a> & <a href="http://theglitterguide.com/2012/04/16/style-sessions-pink-jeans-two-ways/">the glitter guide </a>the other day & sent them over. thanks y'all!<br />
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<br />Kim Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661355569203562764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318549655286427027.post-1192474046486678802012-06-05T01:28:00.002-07:002012-06-05T01:56:11.023-07:00sausages & bubbles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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via the <a href="http://laist.com/2012/05/28/extra_extra_exotic_sausages_are_the.php">laist</a>Kim Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661355569203562764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318549655286427027.post-56492646644434365822012-06-05T01:25:00.000-07:002012-06-05T01:30:10.974-07:00colors in lanice shots -- thx <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://colorsinla.com/2012/05/28/bubbles/#more-5063">colors in la</a>!<br />
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<br />Kim Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661355569203562764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318549655286427027.post-61416635417423712312012-04-23T10:07:00.000-07:002012-04-23T10:12:35.694-07:00update: LALA's inaugural opening receptionthanks to everyone who came out last saturday night 4/21/12 to the new <a href="http://lalaarts.com/" target="_blank">LALA gallery</a>. when we arrived mid-way through, i was told the turnout had surpassed 1200 guests, and people were still pouring though the doors as we left. nice christening of the <a href="http://www.lalaarts.com/">space</a>! really happy to have been included in this one.<br />
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if i missed you at the show, and you were looking for the lions, there was a last minute swap -- lions for bubbles:
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"i feel fine", 2012. 96"x72". collage on discarded "set"flat wood board. acrylic, gouache, spray paint, sharpie, craft paper, newsprint, tissue paper, gloss medium.<br />
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"no way home 4", 2012. 37"x26"; gouache, acrylic, film tape, 24k gold leaf, artist tape, chalk pastel, gouache, charcoal, graphite, and ink on paper.<br />
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over on <a href="http://www.streetartnews.net/2012/04/la-freewalls-inside-los-angeles-group.html">streetartnews.net</a> , there's a comprehensive look at the show with lots of good pix.<br />
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thanks again for coming out to say hi!Kim Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661355569203562764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318549655286427027.post-77895557232772076442012-04-17T12:22:00.000-07:002012-04-17T12:22:43.345-07:00group show -- LA FREEWALLS/INSIDE at LALA Galleryi have 2 new pieces in the upcoming LA FREEWALLS/INSIDE group show, which opens saturday, april 21. stop by the opening from 7-10pm & say hello! <br />
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LALAgallery:<br />
1335 willow street, 2nd floor<br />
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in willow studios building, next door to villains tavern<br />
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a few progress peeks...see the finished work at the show! <br />
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"no way home 4", 2012. 37"x26"; gouache, acrylic, film tape, 24k gold leaf, artist tape, chalk pastel, gouache, charcoal, graphite, and ink on paper.<br />
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"lions on the ropes 2 (old la zoo)", 2012. 48"x72"; acrylic, ink, gouache, china marker, 24k gold leaf, and glitter on canvas. <br />
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we (my husband, kg, aka partner in crime) rented one of these monsters:<br />
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luckily, our monster came with some really useful tips. <br />
like this one:<br />
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so here we are about at 9am, about 50+ feet up, 10ish more to go, and i am very much wishing there was something far stronger than caffeine in that cup:<br />
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i am such a wimp. though i have a sort of smile on my face, when this shot was taken, i was pretty much thinking about:<br />
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a) wimping out. <br />
b) the fact that real street & graffiti artists (as opposed to me, a studio painter who accidentally caught the bug to paint on big outdoor walls) get to this height and a lot higher...and more often than not it's at night, and rushed, and the cops are probably on the way, and chances are their equipment, if any, is way shakier than this. and, well, if they can do it...<br />
c) my husband's offer to go grab us a couple of 40's. <br />
d) exactly how hurt would i get if this thing toppled over? <br />
e) my safety harness, and if it is really supposed to go there and look like that?<br />
f) the part of the monster that physically attaches our basket platform to the telescoping arm, the part that seemed only equivalent to the size of a quart sized paint can. <br />
g) wimping out.<br />
h) ...wimping out.<br />
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at a certain point i guess adrenaline just takes over. that's a nice rush though. once i got used to the height, the sway, and the stress-inducing sounds of the boom's engine & beeping, it was really just SO MUCH FUN. pretty much the most addictive thing i've found to do with paint.<br />
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here's a video montage of the process:<br />
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direct link to youtube if above won't play:<br />
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ants in the pants to get on to parts 2 & 3!!!<br />
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oh! and a few other things: <br />
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this work is on the side of the <a href="http://districtmillworks.com/">district millworks</a> building on e. 3rd in the downtown la arts district. if you visit them or their site, you will find that they make very beautiful things there.<br />
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thanks <a href="http://www.veritecartel.com/">kelly garner</a> & brian paul carlson for documenting with photos. <br />
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and thanks to my talented friend <a href="http://www.fiveoceansmusic.com">jess stroup</a> for letting me use your music in the montage.Kim Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661355569203562764noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318549655286427027.post-29744473352425209802012-02-22T16:51:00.000-08:002012-02-22T16:51:41.600-08:00yay for inspirations!how original: my kiddo inspires me. i am prepared to hear that the following is genius only a mother could see...but i'm going to share anyway because i haven't been able to stop giggling about this when i came across the following magazine doodles in an old design magazine the other day.<br />
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a favorite past-time of my biggest little is going through magazines with a sharpie and adding mustaches, devil horns, samurai swords or AK47s to various figures, or dismembering said figures with giant x'd out eyes and so on. it's not uncommon for me to come across drawn bullets and nuke explosions replacing the entire nytimes style magazine. or,<br />
just a plain old plane bombing a highway of cars:<br />
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for the above <i>violent</i> image and all the others i won't post here, i blame society (but, of course!), general boyhood imagination, and most definitely over-exposure to a certain beloved friend's (you know who you are) ipad games. <br />
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but. two pages in that same design magazine later, and: <br />
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and:<br />
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is it just me, or are those little chair & house characters adorably inventive!? genius, clearly (says mom!)! but really, more than --or equal to-- falling in love with those little house/chair guys, i was loving the flexibility in the drastic change in imagery from one page to the next, and the ease with which that transition was made, and the sense of play in all of it. <br />
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i read an interview years ago on <a href="http://myartspace-blog.blogspot.com/">myartspace>blog</a> with Holly Hughes, <br />
a painter/printmaker and one of my former college painting professors.<br />
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one excerpt from the interview with her that i think of often is this:<br />
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"Our minds teem with encoded versions of all they have processed – and much of what others have as well. Painting allows access to that attic of the mind with great efficiency. Memories are structural trees hung with words and images, roots deep into the subconscious, back into history and gene pools. My fascination with potentially arbitrary juxtaposing acknowledges the results of the overwhelming quantity of information in our age and thus the certainty of incorrectness." (full interview <a href="http://myartspace-blog.blogspot.com/2008/01/art-space-talk-holly-hughes.html">here</a>.)<br />
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random imagery, inspiration, mixing it all up: yes!!Kim Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661355569203562764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318549655286427027.post-21237605527111785012012-02-15T12:40:00.000-08:002012-02-15T12:40:06.227-08:00love affairseriously enamoured of these little works. not just for their glinty, mini-model-geometric-architecturalness, but also for how they just sneak up on you. today, sitting with teresa of <a href="http://madisonandgrow.com">madison&grow</a>, soaking up inspiring shop talk and snacks at the <a href="http://dailydoseinc.com/">daily dose</a> in their charming, brick, vine, and moss covered curved alley patio,<br />
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i noticed another couple:<br />
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WHO IS MAKING THESE LITTLE GEMS!?! i love them.Kim Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661355569203562764noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318549655286427027.post-7453330651717849742012-02-08T12:23:00.000-08:002012-02-08T12:38:14.804-08:00am/pm 'hood lovewhen i walk around the neighborhood in the morning, and i spy this work*:<br />
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and, <br />
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when i get email reminders from <a href="http://downtownmuse.com">downtown muse</a><br />
to attend an evening event around the corner, like this:<br />
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, i end the day more informed, inspired, and entertained! <br />
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also, nice stairway at lala gallery:<br />
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thank you mystery (to me) geode-ish paper folder/gluer/installer and nailhead/washer/upholstery tacking artist(s)*, and thank you <a href="http://www.jetsetgraffiti.com/">LALA gallery</a> for the meeting last night.<br />
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(* who's work?! love.)Kim Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661355569203562764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318549655286427027.post-21661047016004221362012-01-09T11:07:00.000-08:002012-01-18T09:43:18.190-08:00Brooklyn Street ArtToday I was googling for this, a favorite piece from Nomade that went up (and down all too quickly) on a wall around the corner from me a few months ago:<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rq1aEIE7uOU"target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rq1aEIE7uOU</a><br />
thanks BSA -- love the montage!Kim Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661355569203562764noreply@blogger.com0