Category: ARCHIVE

  • Collaboration

    Toronto artist Mary Porter and I have been working on joint projects since 2012. Our shared interests in art history and collage were the starting point, and the nature of our long-distance collaboration lent itself to web-based work that explores the shared language and imagery of the internet as organized by Google. A Conversation is a digital correspondence project…

  • In Blue

    In September and October of 2011, I took part in an artist residency at the Ox-Bow School of Arts, in Saugatuck, Michigan. These photos were taken in the Old Inn on the school grounds, where students would stay during the summer months.  I was instantly attracted to the blue colours in the rooms, from the…

  • we could be lovers

    According to Pliny the Elder, the invention of drawing/painting occurred when a Corinthian maiden traced the profile of her lover using charcoal and the shadow of his face on a wall.  He was about to depart for war, and it was a way to remember him by. During my What’s Love Got to Do With…

  • The Way We Were

    This body of work presents a series of paintings based on the concept of false nostalgia, combining visual elements from popular culture of past decades. Growing up in the 1980s as a Chinese-Canadian, I was surrounded by the Western mass media’s idealized representations of love and family of bygone years. As a result, I often…