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We learn about people through their faces but a portrait is not just a documentation of the face. Portraits are subjective projections and through this series of photographs, I have tried to explore the relationship between human interactions and our attempt to visually represent people.Strangers, Family & Friends, 2012, photo series with silkscreen, various sizes
Rosanna
Natalie
Tiffany
*exhibited at Too Deep for You UBC BA / BFA Graduation Exhibition, UBC’s annual BFA/BA Visual Art graduating exhibition is TOO DEEP FOR YOU. The exhibition showcases the ambitious final projects of graduating Visual Art students. Materially and methodologically diverse, artworks in the exhibition are representative of students’ heterogeneous areas of inquiry, and of their ongoing negotiation of critical thinking and material artistic practice.*
*exhibited at ExplorASIAN 2012: Generation One Art Exhibition, ExplorASIAN 2012, the 16th annual month-long festival to celebrate Asian Heritage Month in Metro Vancouver – features the “Generation One Art Exhibition” as one of its signature programs. Generation One, a platform for local artists to showcase their artworks in the community, appears at multiple sites throughout Metro Vancouver. A special purpose of this year’s exhibition is to highlight young artists who are home-grown first-generation Asian-Canadians, or new immigrants.*
Strangers, Family & Friends, a set on Flickr.
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printmaking allows artists to work with the traces of printing. Every mark made for the print leaves traces behind. Silkscreen printing was not recognized for this ability like etching or woodcut. Through this series of prints, I have tried to explore the possibility of this material, the relationship between ink and printing process.
6 layers of colors, 2012, silkscreen print series, various sizes
6 layers of colors I
6 layers of colors III
6 layers of white
6 layers of grey
6 layers of black
*exhibited at Too Deep for You UBC BA / BFA Graduation Exhibition, UBC’s annual BFA/BA Visual Art graduating exhibition is TOO DEEP FOR YOU. The exhibition showcases the ambitious final projects of graduating Visual Art students. Materially and methodologically diverse, artworks in the exhibition are representative of students’ heterogeneous areas of inquiry, and of their ongoing negotiation of critical thinking and material artistic practice.*
6 layers of colors, a set on Flickr.
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Perhaps because of those memories, so long abandoned and put out of mind, nothing now survived, everything was scattered.
- Marcel Proust
Dear Jon, Please Remind Me, 2012, silkscreen print, 4.5 X 6.5”
*exhibited on 5Blanks.com MAILART-PROJECT: THEME “TRACES*
*exhibited at Third Year Here, a selection of work from Visual Arts students from the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, University of British Columbia.*
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How we should SHOP. How we should EAT. How we should THINK. How we should ACT.
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San Francisco, a set on Flickr.
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Vancouver Tenants.
Chris Gergley chose to document Vancouver apartments that he sees as suffering from amusingly uncoordinated color schemes and pathetic gestures of interior decor by landlords. These 3-4 story tall apartments were once popular but no loner as competitive as the more profitable high-rise condos. While Gergley see the designs of these apartments as an aesthetic failure back when he worked on the series Vancouver Apartments in 1997-1998, now I see character. Compared to the cookie-cutter high-rise apartments along False Creek, these old apartments located in Kitsilano have more individuality. They may not be more attractive but their style adds more character to the historical fabric of Vancouver architecture. In dialogue with Gergley’s work, I wanted to explore the diverse community of tenants currently living in these character apartments. The apartment themselves act as individual portraits. But together with the tenants’ presence, it creates another tension and interesting dialogue about character and individuality.
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Played times.
ABSURD HAPPINESS.
There’s no reason why we shouldn’t be happy because there’s no reason to happiness. We don’t have to limit ourselves to what we think can bring us positivity in our lives. There is no political, social or economical agenda to this. If we can spread a little love, give more free hugs, then we can share some more happiness.
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it. - William Feather
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