My art practice denotes freedom and unapologetic honesty. My artwork explores a variety of general themes in my personal narrative - my family’s cultural background and my experiences as a first generation American as well as my shift in careers from corporate lawyer to full-time working artist and mother. Using gestural abstraction as story-telling, my art explores subjective personal themes of duality such as growth, love, rejection, family, isolation, chaos, calm, flawed beauty and perfection. Abstraction feels liberating and there’s no fixed narrative so the story can change at any moment and that’s okay. I work to provoke a vivid, emotional response, but also leave an impression of uncertainty.
As an artist, I study the concept of excavation and discovery and I explore consistent themes of change and evolution using various mediums including oil paint, acrylic paint, oil stick, ink, house paint, gesso and pastels. I use heavy sculptural layering to explore the dynamic tension between the unintentional stroke and the meticulously planned one. Together, these gestures create connection and movement, and my intuitive mark-making reflect my spirit and the humanness of my experiences.
I’m inspired by the process of building and removing layers in order to reveal what is really underneath - whether what is hidden away in the bottom layers shows our true selves below masks we wear in order to live and protect ourselves in the world, or our emotions that are so complicated and fluid that we only get to the truth once all the complexity and layers are removed. All layers are at once pristine and messy. Even the simplest of shapes and marks have meaning - especially when made into visual art - and we can’t help but see something and make it personal.
I believe all human experiences and emotions are important and valuable - often filled with joy but sometimes encumbered with unpredictable and terrible pain. I aim to make art that is relatable to viewers in a contemplative and personal way, as I create work that is profound, penetrating, and evocative, very much corresponding to ourselves and how we live.
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