Kim West

Kim West is a painter whose multidisciplinary oeuvre encompasses work on canvas, clay, sculptural forms, and myriad architectural elements, as well as performance-activated installation projects.

Using gestural, painterly marks and washy translucence layered into opacities, West expresses narratives and feelings pulled from memory, biota, and historical artifacts. Site-specific landscape elements are observed and researched, informing compositions and palettes that span from Techni-Color manufactured brights to chromatic blushes of other-world ether.

West’s public mural work, described as “dreamlike” by The New York Times, scales from intimate wall pieces to environmentally scoped expanses, including California’s largest hand-painted mural, Kaleidoscope (How’d Ya Get to be Happiness?) in Huntington Beach, and the U.S.’s largest known kinetic mural, Inexhaustible Blooms, in Mountain View, California.

West graduated from the painting department at Rhode Island School of Design, following additional studies at Smith College, Amherst College, and the Instituto de Allende.


https://www.kimwest.com/