Headlands Center for the Arts

Artist Statement

I am a multi-material artist in pursuit of broadening inherited cultural narratives through drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, and installation. My perspective as an immigrant who grew up in 1970s Los Angeles informs the narratives and material significance of the culture I experienced. With a preference for the handmade, I reflect on themes of loss, memory, and history.

I am influenced by visual culture and consumerism, using them as a visual language with inherent meanings that I can subvert or transform into new concepts. I prefer to get out of the way of the resulting work, choosing to inhabit an observational approach of replication, scale, and perspective to provoke an experience of art via mind and body.

While At Headlands

Throughout my career as an artist and art educator—nearly always involving the practice of drawing—I have developed a way of teaching drawing as a culmination of my own natural inclinations toward mark making and seeing, as well as those of my teachers, and the Western educational modes in which I experienced. I now seek to explore what my voice could become from a “beginner’s mind,” by dismantling or unlearning the methods I have come to rely upon, challenging those conventions through experimentation and play with new (to me, anyway) techniques and methodologies. I am grateful for an opportunity to commit to this endeavor at the Headlands Art Center, an environment known for encouraging exploration and creativity.