Yookan Westfield loves cat. She has two cats, one named Orange, big tomcat and the other one
named Grey beautiful female, and both are eight years of age represent the vigor of emerging lives.She thought any cat has their individuality. She respects that.Also, her family like cat from ancestor.
They always live with cat.
In Yookan Westfield’s work, her cat portraits with landscapes which Brooklyn, her hometown
in a small westerly Japanese seaside town. Also, her family appears with. Her family had many miracle stories related to their cat. One of them, their cat grave had critical moment to move by new road plan.
Yookan refused strongly. Then, new road was made other places to remove big farming. After, air became
cleaned, silence was returned to this graveyard area. And big mall and hot spring resort were made
around new road which only three minutes from her hometown house. Yookan family became very
convenience.
Yookan try to make new miracle story with her cat in her painting.
Yookan Westfield was born in Nanao-City, Japan and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.She
earned a BFA from Kanazawa college of Art and an MA from Musashino Art University in Japan.She completed at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.Westfield received
the Dokuritsu Prize in Dokuritsu Exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan in 1997
and 1998. She has been a member artist of the Dokuritsu Art Association since 1999. She has participated
in the Dokuritsu Exhibition as a member and juror many times since 2000.She has held six solo shows
at the Ginza Surugadai Gallery,Toky osince 1984. Westfield has exhibited at venues including
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Saitama Modern Art Museum, and others in Japan.In New York, she
is a featured member artist of the Prince Street Gallery in 2005. She has participated in the gallery's
group shows and has her solo show held four times since 2007.Her work has been reproduced and
reviewed in the New York Seikatsu, Gallery Studio, NY and Hokkoku Times Newspaper, Bijyutunomado
or Gekkanbijyutu (Japanese Art Magazine). Her work is represented in the government collection of
Nanao-City, Japan.
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