Joachim West
Joachim West was born in Connecticut and moved to Plano, Texas as a teenager where he continued to demonstrate a committed passion for making art. He earned a BA in Art & Performance from The University of Texas at Dallas followed by an MFA in Producción Artística from La Universidad Politécnica de Valencia in Spain.
Since Joachim’s return to The United States, he has obsessively continued to pursue two bodies of work. The first, titled Mother Earth Is a Dirty Whore, is a visual continuation of his master’s degree thesis which was inspired by the suicide of a close friend. This tragic event spurred him to question whether violence was something that only a portion of humanity engages in or if all humans engage in one form of violence or another.
Joachim’s alternate artistic research practice explores the intervening role of chance into formalist aesthetics by combining production commodity painting with a unique mediated monoprint/painting transfer process that he discovered while studying art as an undergraduate student. The latest incarnation of this project combines American ingenuity with Chinese mass production and European taste. By doing so, it represents the nature of our contemporary global consumerist mass production culture.
Joachim's work has been included in the Hunting Art Exhibition twice since returning from Spain as well as many other group shows and juried exhibitions, including exhibitions curated by Trenton Doyle Hancock, Benito Huerta, Aaron Parazette, and Joan Davidow.
Education:
2009 La Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, MFA, "Producción Artística"
2007 The University of Texas at Dallas, Texas, BA, "Art & Performance"
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Solo Expositions:
2013 "Michael Westfried, Strip-Off Series,", Ro2 Art at The Magnolia, Dallas, Texas
2011 Mighty Fine Arts, “Michael Westfried: New Work, Dallas, Texas
2008 University of Texas at Dallas "Stripped Off: Creatively Exposed", Texas
2008 University of Texas at Dallas "In Memory of Andrew Haliburtan", Texas
Collective Expositions and Juried Shows:
2014 Draftsmen of the Apocalypse, Curated by Heyd Fontenot, CentralTrak, Dallas, Texas
2013 Hunting Art Prize, Houston, Texas
2013 The MAC Presents Carrie Crumbley at Ro2 Art, Dallas, Texas
2011 Hunting Art Prize, Houston, Texas
2010 3rd Coast National , Juror: Trenton Doyle Hancock, The K-Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, Texas
2010 The Hot Shop, Juror: Benito Huerta, Mighty Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas
2012 500XPO, Juror: Aaron Parazette, Dallas, Texas
2008 Geomorph, Curated by Charissa Teranova, CentralTrak, Dallas, Texas
2008 Spring Show '08, Curated by Joan Davidow University of Texas at Dallas, Texas
Joachim West was born in Connecticut and moved to Plano, Texas as a teenager where he continued to demonstrate a committed passion for making art. He earned a BA in Art & Performance from The University of Texas at Dallas followed by an MFA in Producción Artística from La Universidad Politécnica de Valencia in Spain.
Since Joachim’s return to The United States, he has obsessively continued to pursue two bodies of work. The first, titled Mother Earth Is a Dirty Whore, is a visual continuation of his master’s degree thesis which was inspired by the suicide of a close friend. This tragic event spurred him to question whether violence was something that only a portion of humanity engages in or if all humans engage in one form of violence or another.
Joachim’s alternate artistic research practice explores the intervening role of chance into formalist aesthetics by combining production commodity painting with a unique mediated monoprint/painting transfer process that he discovered while studying art as an undergraduate student. The latest incarnation of this project combines American ingenuity with Chinese mass production and European taste. By doing so, it represents the nature of our contemporary global consumerist mass production culture.
Joachim's work has been included in the Hunting Art Exhibition twice since returning from Spain as well as many other group shows and juried exhibitions, including exhibitions curated by Trenton Doyle Hancock, Benito Huerta, Aaron Parazette, and Joan Davidow.
Education:
2009 La Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, MFA, "Producción Artística"
2007 The University of Texas at Dallas, Texas, BA, "Art & Performance"
,
Solo Expositions:
2013 "Michael Westfried, Strip-Off Series,", Ro2 Art at The Magnolia, Dallas, Texas
2011 Mighty Fine Arts, “Michael Westfried: New Work, Dallas, Texas
2008 University of Texas at Dallas "Stripped Off: Creatively Exposed", Texas
2008 University of Texas at Dallas "In Memory of Andrew Haliburtan", Texas
Collective Expositions and Juried Shows:
2014 Draftsmen of the Apocalypse, Curated by Heyd Fontenot, CentralTrak, Dallas, Texas
2013 Hunting Art Prize, Houston, Texas
2013 The MAC Presents Carrie Crumbley at Ro2 Art, Dallas, Texas
2011 Hunting Art Prize, Houston, Texas
2010 3rd Coast National , Juror: Trenton Doyle Hancock, The K-Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, Texas
2010 The Hot Shop, Juror: Benito Huerta, Mighty Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas
2012 500XPO, Juror: Aaron Parazette, Dallas, Texas
2008 Geomorph, Curated by Charissa Teranova, CentralTrak, Dallas, Texas
2008 Spring Show '08, Curated by Joan Davidow University of Texas at Dallas, Texas
