KIM WESTFALL

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Current Works
2024


Ice Americano in Seodaemun Tunnel, 2024.
Tufted organza ribbon,  182.88 x 147.32 cm / 72 x 58 in









Moonies Tanning in the Moonlight, 2024.
Tufted organza ribbon, 91.44 x 137.16 cm / 36 x 54 in






Love You Long Time 1, 2024.
Tufted organza ribbon, 147.32 x 81.28 cm / 58 x 32 in






Red Light, 2024.
Tufted organza ribbon, 142.24 x 96.52 cm / 56 x 38 in







Black Hawk Village, Yongsan Garrison.
Tufted organza ribbon, 208.28 x 157.48 cm / 82 x 62 in




Oppa 
2023


It’s Daejeon, 2022.
Tufted organza ribbon, 170.18 x 132.08 cm / 67 x 52 in






Night Reaping, 2023.
Tufted organza ribbon, 190.5 x 238.76 cm / 75 x 94 in





Sunset at the Pine Club 1, 2023.
Tufted organza ribbon, 144.78 x 193.04 cm / 57 x 76 in



Sunset at the Pine Club 2, 2023.
Tufted organza ribbon, 144.78 x 193.04 cm / 57 x 76


Heartbreak Ridge, 2023.
Tufted organza ribbon, 109.2 x 137.1 cm / 43 x 54 in






Lounging in the Punchbowl, 2023.
Tufted organza ribbon, 146.05 x 193.04 cm / 57.5 x 76 in




Untitled, 2023.
Tufted organza ribbon,  114.3 x 127 cm / 45 x 50 in






Yankee Whore, 2023.
Tufted organza ribbon, Triptych (468 x 206 cm / 184.25 x 81.10 in)


Yankee Whore (Panel 1), 2023.
Tufted organza ribbon, Triptych (468 x 206 cm / 184.25 x 81.10 in)


Yankee Whore (Panel 2), 2023.
Tufted organza ribbon, Triptych (468 x 206 cm / 184.25 x 81.10 in)



Yankee Whore (Panel 3), 2023.
Tufted organza ribbon, Triptych (468 x 206 cm / 184.25 x 81.10 in)

The DMZ is Dreaming Again
(다시 꿈꾸는 DMZ)

“De-sited, de-auratized cultures are not merely replications devoid of any authenticity. They achieve another Being, another reality, which shines in the absence of the auratic. On the model of the term hyperculturality, it could be called hyperreality.”

Hyperculture (2022), Byung-chul Han

Organza ribbon tapestries started in 2020, develop into a research trip to the Korean Demilitarized Zone to experience the plants and animals that flourish in this accidental nature preserve. These orchids thrive where few are permitted access, and continue to survive despite past and future deterritorializations. The legacy of American engagement in Korea, and the dialectic between savagery and beauty in nature create strange opportunities out of crises.


DMZ / ROK / DPRK
2020-ongoing

Commelina Communis Dayflower, 2022  Tufted organza ribbon  111.7 x 147.3 cm / 44 x 58 in
Commelina Communis Dayflower, 2022.
Tufted organza ribbon, 111.7 x 147.3 cm / 44 x 58 in


Commelina Communis Dayflower, (detail)
Commelina Communis Dayflower, (detail)


Platanthera Grandiflora, 2022  Tufted organza ribbon  114.3 x 127 cm / 45 x 50 in
Platanthera Grandiflora, 2022.
Tufted organza ribbon,  114.3 x 127 cm / 45 x 50 in


Oreorchis Patens, 2022  Tufted organza ribbon  111.7 x 147.3 cm / 44 x 58 in
Oreorchis Patens, 2022.
Tufted organza ribbon,  111.7 x 147.3 cm / 44 x 58 in


Oreorchis Patens, (detail)
Oreorchis Patens, (detail)


Cymbidium Goeringii, 2022  Tufted organza ribbon  109.2 x 137.1 cm / 43 x 54 in
Cymbidium Goeringii, 2022.
Tufted organza ribbon, 109.2 x 137.1 cm / 43 x 54 in


Small Whorled Pogonia, 2022  Tufted organza ribbon  114.3 x 127 cm / 45 x 50 in
Small Whorled Pogonia, 2022.
Tufted organza ribbon,  114.3 x 127 cm / 45 x 50 in


Dendrobium Moniliforme, 2022  Tufted organza ribbon  119.3 x 134.6 cm / 47 x 53 in
Dendrobium Moniliforme, 2022.
Tufted organza ribbon,  119.3 x 134.6 cm / 47 x 53 in


Dendrobium Moniliforme, (detail)
Dendrobium Moniliforme, (detail)

Until Tomorrow, 2022 Tufted organza ribbon  oooo x ooo cm / 48 x 96 in
Until Tomorrow, 2020.

DMZ: Checkpoint
Real DMZ Project
August 31 - September 23 2023  


Participating artists:
Onejoon Che, Soyoung Chung, Gimhongsok, HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander, Kyungah Ham, Ikkibawikrrr, Su-Mi Jang, Sunny Kim, Makiko Kudo, Hyeseong Kwon, Jaeseok Lee, Jung-hoon Lee, Woosung Lee, Mikael Levin, Minouk Lim, Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho, Na Mira, Ok Seungcheol, Boma Pak, Hyungjin Park, Noh-wan Park, Seonglib, Youngsun Suh, Sikyung Sung, Kim Westfall, Tomoko Yoneda, Kyung Jin Zoh & Hye Ryeong Cho

The DMZ Exhibition: Checkpoint contemplates on how to perceive the division of Korea and the border area through the perspective of contemporary art and diversify its viewpoint. Continuing various artistic attempts that have dealt with the history and reality of division, it will perceive the DMZ as a new cultural creation zone where reality and imagination intersect.

While acknowledging that the contemplation on war, Korea's division, and the formation of the DMZ as the aftermath begins with an understanding of history and politics, the exhibition will approach the matter with a broader viewpoint and sometimes distance itself while going beyond boundaries. These views may be presented in ambiguous and unfamiliar forms or reveal blurred and layered meanings. We hope that the new artistic attempts will expose the reality and paradoxical situation of the DMZ and transcend our rational thinking and general sensibility.

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Spicy Memory attempts to reconcile the virtual, mutable nature of contemporary Korea with the militarized, static DMZ checkpoint. Ribbons (the artist's chosen material for her textile works), red pepper flakes, and fragments of the artist's adoption documents are encased in an acrylic resin record spinning on a turntable. The stylus never makes contact with the record.

Instead, Vera Lynn's We'll Meet Again and Hank Locklin's Geisha Girl play on loop from an unseen source.

The installation of Spicy Memory in a permanent exhibit of an American GI's bunk meditates on the history of Camp Greaves, and the ongoing US-South Korea alliance, and the contradictions of the DMZ as an ideological space, a nature preserve, and military checkpoint.

My Eyes are Down Here (2015), hangs above the mantelpiece. 








Spicy memory, 2023.
Acrylic resin, organza ribbon, adoption documents, red pepper flakes, record player.
30.48 cm / 12 in, Camp Greaves- Documenta 3
DMZ Paju, ROK.




My Eyes are Down Here, 2015.
Tufted acrylic yarn on wooden frame.
78.74 x 58.42 cm / 31 × 23 in, Camp Greaves- Documenta 3
DMZ Paju, ROK.





Spicy Memory, 2024.
video, Camp Greaves- Documenta 3
DMZ Paju, ROK.



As an Angel-American ♥ 

A public project about hyphenated American identity funded by NYFA’s City Artist Corps program.  


Liberty Island, NJ / Hudson River, NYC
2021

As an Angel-American ♥, 2021.
Digital drawing printed on polyester airplane banner with iron rod lettering
18.288 x 6.096 m / 60 x 20 ft, Liberty Island, NJ, NYC.


As an Angel-American ♥, 2021.
video, 0:54 sec, Liberty Island, NJ, NYC.


As an Angel-American ♥, 2021.
Hudson River, NYC.


As an Angel-American ♥, 2021.
 Liberty Island, NJ, NYC.


As an Angel-American ♥, 2021.
 Freedom Tower, NYC.