Self And Place

I’m an artist who currently lives and paints in NYC, as I have this uncontrollable urge to displace myself from time to time. And that is how my art develops and in the best shape of, when ingesting and gesticulating an outside that’s alien and slightly uncomfortable.

My parents and I moved from China to the US when I was 6. I spent one year in North Carolina being “that special Asian girl”, to being quite forgettable in the immigrant soup that was NYC in the early 90’s. I became adept at weaving in and out in a zone of my own in a city full of noise and contradicting influence.

My journey has taken me from New York to Shanghai, to San Francisco and Montreal, then moist Vancouver, and blinding yet unforgettable LA, to barren Las Vegas full of potential, to calm and contained Switzerland, and finally back here to NYC, to the familiar, the beautiful, and the absolutely dreadful.

My art speaks of all those steps in between, of the wandering and meandering thoughts and self struggles of the mind and its many loops and built-in defenses as I absorb the effects of place when taken out of my comfort zone. And along the way, trying to find in myself a dignity that remains when all else familiar fades away.