Winstead's

Winstead's is a 2018 lithograph depicting a subject associated with Winstead's, a Kansas City drive-in hamburger restaurant established in 1940 and a local institution near the University of Kansas, where Nam has taught since 2001. The work likely depicts the restaurant's packaging, a burger, or a signature food item from its menu. Nam's treatment of a regional American fast-food institution as a lithographic still life connects her engagement with consumer food culture to a specific local geography. The Birds & Flowers subject classification may indicate the composition places the food object within a broader arrangement. Lithography allows the rich tonal rendering necessary to describe the textures of paper wrappers, sesame-seeded buns, or the restaurant's mid-century graphic identity.