?At Last? Solo exhibition at Hamiltonian Gallery, March 2011 featuring 3 video projections, a series of pastel drawings and digital prints.

This work was created in response to the Amargosa Desert in Nevada on the edge of Death Valley. "At Last" was inspired by the sculptural rendition of Leonardo DaVinci's "The Last Supper" by Belgian artist Charles Albert Szukalski at Goldwell Open Air Museum in Rhyolite ghost town. I lived and worked in collaboration with the local residents of Beatty, Nevada in an effort to immerse myself in this small desert community.

This extreme environment is hauntingly beautiful yet a bitter place to survive so I wanted to capture that grittiness in the setting and characters of "At Last." The small mining town of Beatty has a primarily male, blue collar population struggling to find employment and these young men were the perfect misfit cast for this project. After finding several wild burro skulls during my mountain explorations, I connected the story of the Last Supper with the tradition of old master Vanitas, and combined this inspiration with the local desert landscape in order to produce this body of work.

2-channel video animated with pastel drawn backgrounds, projected life-size into a corner.

I create video installations that examine how various cultures have historically depicted illumination-- physical, intellectual, and spiritual. Transcribing pictorial space into three-dimensions through pastel drawings, performance, and digital green-screen animation, these video composites are projected into corners, onto the floor, and wall. I actively draw upon art historical painting, film, and video in order to reframe it in alternative, interdisciplinary contexts.

Curious about how the act of seeing today is transformed by technology, my work slows viewers down in order to contemplate quiet moments they might otherwise miss. In a fast-paced society where media constantly competes for our short attention span, I challenge viewers to reconsider traditional stories from my cultural backgrounds--both American and Chinese, and encourage an ethnographic understanding of still and moving images. I hope viewers will reflect on their visual consumption and enjoy new ways of seeing.

2-channel video animated with pastel drawn backgrounds, projected life-size into a corner.

I create video installations that examine how various cultures have historically depicted illumination-- physical, intellectual, and spiritual. Transcribing pictorial space into three-dimensions through pastel drawings, performance, and digital green-screen animation, these video composites are projected into corners, onto the floor, and wall. I actively draw upon art historical painting, film, and video in order to reframe it in alternative, interdisciplinary contexts.

Curious about how the act of seeing today is transformed by technology, my work slows viewers down in order to contemplate quiet moments they might otherwise miss. In a fast-paced society where media constantly competes for our short attention span, I challenge viewers to reconsider traditional stories from my cultural backgrounds--both American and Chinese, and encourage an ethnographic understanding of still and moving images. I hope viewers will reflect on their visual consumption and enjoy new ways of seeing.

performed at (e)merge Art Fair, Capitol Skyline Hotel, D.C.

Designed for a contemporary art fair, a Chinese factory worker hawks goods to the audience from a peddler's cart. Behind, a wall projection depicts assembly workers. Referencing Apple Inc.'s Foxconn controversy, the work highlights commodity production, labor inequity, and global economies.

Video projections on the floor playing with light.

My floor projections examine pictorial space in a three-dimensional environment through green-screen animation, time-lapse recording, performance and architectural installation. These videos with experiment how light can change the form of a surface and affect the viewer based on it's position relative to the viewer. I'm particularly interested in how light can be animated to express our inner condition and provoke us to seek external answers.

Work shown at Silber Gallery, Goucher College in solo exhibition "Perspectives: a Look through Cultural Lenses.

New video works with cross-cultural sensibilities made in response to corner projections that reference western art history. Juxtaposing American and Chinese perspectives of pictorial space, Perspectives compares ways of seeing still and moving images; ideas of illumination; and visual consumption.