Home lies at the exit of every train stop, in every traveler’s mind. They travel around for their ideals and their lives. But home is where their hearts lie. To make someone feel touched sometimes all it takes is a rose; to fall in love sometimes all you need is a detail. Sometimes you end […]

By working with the characteristics of a chosen site I create sculptural installations that are architecturally as well as personally structured. Space and its parameters are examined, then altered, and manipulated, generating a very unique spatial environment, in order to sharpen our perception of it and of ourselves, beyond normal reality and its habits. I […]

Earth—Man was completed in August, 2007. It was scorching hot. At 8 a.m., I went a barber shop in the art district, and had all my hair and facial hair shaved off. At around 9 o’clock, a friend of mine started to paint on my head and my face. This friend is a graphic designer […]

In 2003 an all-night exposure of the stars made during a camping trip was lost due to the effects of whiskey. I was unable to wake up to close the shutter before sunrise; all the information of the night’s exposure was destroyed. The light of the rising sun was so focused and intense that it […]

My work derives from propaganda and other ideological sources. Since the late 1980s, I have made paintings and drawings based on images archived from advertisements, posters, “fine art” photographs, and tourist ephemera published under political movements ranging from the mid-1930s Nazi, WPA, and Stalinist “Five-Year Plan” tracts to current military recruiting and corporate Web-based “motivational” […]

Femininity in photography is not what it used to be. It is no longer romantic or desirable. As women, it seems that cotemporary images found in fashion and fine art are created to make us feel less than adequate. I yearn for the time when sensuality and grace could be found in subtle incarnations rather […]

Ripped and Torn is an arcade of unique artworks that appear to be sliced and diced with a scalpel, torn and ripped by hand, and assembled from non-logical parts by 24 whimsical artists who set out to create the aesthetic illusion of a magical world conjured up from the depths of their subconsciousness. Today collage […]

Kearny Street Workshop’s annual multidisciplinary arts festival entitled APAture features the work of emerging Asian Pacific American artists that live and/or work in the San Francisco Bay Area. This past fall APAture visual arts exhibition, Shifting Landscapes through the Labor of the Hand-Made, included a dynamic group of 20 artists practicing in a variety of […]

This past October, Mahan Gallery presented an exhibition of paintings, drawings, photography, and collage by nine globally recognized artists who share a strong interest in symbolical narrative. The exhibition functioned as a survey of mountainous aesthetics, simultaneously exploring the fables, folklores, and assumed simulations of the mountain by the artists or interpretation of the curator, […]

In light of the wonderful works on display from the Whitney and the Pompidou museums, which hold the two largest bodies of Alexander Calder’s work in public collections, no one will be disappointed. A quality of over-cautious linearity in the installations and uninspired lighting are the main flaws in this show, which travels to the […]