Category: ARTWORK

  • Vacation

    I unexpectedly lost my father shortly after reconnecting with him in person following years of separation due to COVID-19. His sudden death compelled me to seek out old family photographs and I stumbled upon a collection of images from past vacations. These photos depicted only locations, devoid of people. Initially, I attributed them to my…

  • New Work & Various Projects
  • Collaboration

    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…

  • Piggies

    Piggies

    I began working with my grandmother’s carefully curated collection of ceramic pigs and piggy banks when she was first diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. With the onset of her dementia, my grandmother felt a need to collect things and had begun to hoard. But this collection of pigs was assembled when collecting was still for pleasure and through…

  • Of Myth and Men

    Of Myth and Men is both a visually and thematically collage-like series of oil paintings.  I mix art-historical images from Greek and Old Testament myths with romantic, familial and platonic relationships from my own life.  I have chosen to work with popular myths that I personally identify with but that have also been repeatedly painted throughout history. A…

  • pretty boys kill me

    In pretty boys kill me, I address the subtle distinction between desire and obsession, with soft-featured young men serving as muse. Through my drawings, I continue to reference both public and personal histories. Poster-sized drawings of many pretty boy faces, arranged in pattern, present an aesthetic ideal of beauty. Each face was meticulously drawn one at a…

  • Rejected Memories

    Rejected Memories

    A work in progress

  • In Blue

    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…

  • The Way We Were

    The Way We Were

    Solo exhibition (2009) The Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada 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…

  • Portraits