ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is rooted in a life of change and layered perspectives. I was born in China, raised among artists, and later immigrated to the United States. Art has always been part of my landscape—not just something I make, but something I live alongside. I share my life with a fellow artist, and together we move through a world that is never still. These experiences—migration, family, cultural crossings—shape both the textures of my life and the surfaces of my canvases.
I work across media—oil, watercolor, ink, monoprint, collage, and mixed materials—because no single medium can contain the shifting nature of memory and experience. Each piece becomes a meeting ground where East and West, past and present, private memory and public history overlap. I often layer paint with fragments of paper or found imagery, allowing unexpected juxtapositions to emerge. This process reflects the way life itself feels: never tidy, but always richly interconnected.
My art doesn’t follow a fixed style because I don’t see life that way. A painting may begin with a figure, but dissolve into abstraction; a collage may feel playful at first, but hold traces of longing underneath. The diversity of approaches mirrors the diversity of the stories I carry—the dislocation of immigration, the grounding force of family, the echoes of tradition, and the surprise of reinvention.
Looking at my own body of work, I see a visual diary of transformation. Each piece holds a fragment of where I have been, who I have loved, and what has changed along the way. They are not grand statements, but lived responses—moments of curiosity, discovery, or reflection, translated into material form.
Through this work, I invite viewers into a space of connection. My hope is that the layered images speak not just to my own story, but to the universal experience of navigating complexity: of finding beauty in contradiction, of carrying the past while making room for the new.