This is one print in a series titled Terrain. It is documentation of my current artistic process that features me taking neon tubes into nature, and other spaces that I occupy.
Walking around the dock in North Carolina, I felt such a peaceful feeling. What else can one wish for?
I created this piece by first taping my paper to the floor, and then chalking up the bottom of an office chair. My intention was to record all the movements over a few days made by my partner who, because of Covid 19, is currently working from home.
My friend Miracle decided to stray from the trail on the mountain we were hiking in Switzerland. Before I could process what was happening, I had my camera up and ready to capture the moment. Miracle inspired me so much that day, to be as brave as you can.
In this painting, I explored the small footprints one leaves behind in a space they have inhabited for a significant period of time.
I was inspired to make this work after returning from studying abroad in Italy. I wanted to capture this small moment in time when I stopped on the street in Florence to look at this letter box.
Inspired by the specific lighting of Norman Rockwell paintings.
This work was a reflection of acknowledging that everything relies on the other. In painting and everywhere else.
After New York City issued a state of emergency, the anxiety and fear about COVID-19 became obvious.
I was inspired by Bisa Butler's colorful portraits and wanted to create an expressive painting that shows how isolated I feel during these times. I begin paintings by blocking in colors and shapes monochromatically, building up values and slowly incorporating different tones through layering.
This piece is paper collaged on landscape fabric. I used drawing paper as well as Chinese traditional paper to create this composition.
An abstract interpretation of a music video. I used color and movement to invoke that same exciting quality and feeling from the video.
This piece is meant to represent the emotional atmosphere present this year - as we experience disruption, uncertainty, and fear, life still continues.
Created while living in the home of Carson McCullers.
I am inspired by ideas of repurposing and our awareness of environment. Part of a micro utopia installation called Polynation, filled with plants, hammocks and videos of bees pollinating gardens, this hybrid meld of commodified product wrap questions perceptions of beauty, and the effect we have on the natural world.
I create abstract images that are extremely simple but present to be very complicated from close up. For me, the result of “finished work” is not important, but the creative process is. I practice my own meditation. After stacking all elements together, composition becomes really unreadable with a vague concept.
My main intention is to open the viewer’s eyes to something other than the norm. I want people to come up with their own rendition of “art”. I want them to think that everything is not what it seems, as simplicity of a common object can transform into something else.
I hope this work makes the eye wander and fill the viewer with delight and meditative energy. I want the color scheme to be calming but also have touches of dark, contrasting line work that energizes the space.
Every year 20 million tons of post consumer textile waste are put into landfills. My work strives to bring attention to this crisis, to unmake waste and give value back to these discarded materials. This piece is made from textile waste, transforming damaged, discarded materials into new forms.
This piece is about colorism within the Latinx community and how much, as a group, we choose to turn a blind eye to it.
This is a portrait of a man who has just arrived in Los Angeles for the first time. He is blinking and taking in his new surroundings.