Sweet Sweat

SWEET SWEAT: A SOLO SHOW
Sweet Sweat is about treasured and lost connections; to both my first home in the deep Florida south and to loved ones through the years. Intimacy and nostalgia are central throughout the show, referencing the melancholy in mourning memories and places never to exist again.

A solo show exhibited at Current Space in Baltimore, MD

Bountiful

The collage artworks in Bountiful bring together seductive scenes of abundance and adornments. These tantalizing  displays are full of allurements such as diamonds, extravagant clothes, and decor that feed our society’s ever-present unhealthy relationship to materialism. These items, juxtaposed with the Black female body, adds an element of objectivity and the transactional nature in which Black women’s bodies have been viewed through history. 

Fine Company

Fine Company is a multimedia installation centered around the utopian aspirations of the English colonizers of the United States. The exhibition space contains time capsules built by the Virginia Company in an alternate reality in which the corporation that founded Jamestown still exists today.

Value Studies

Value Studies is a series of works in various media that explore the entanglements of global capitalist systems, constructions of cultural identity, and value. I utilize the language of material histories and commodities specifically tied to the collective national identity of the Philippines. I’m also utilizing personal sensorial and material associations in my work, as a way of grounding it in an autoethnographic approach to research and art production. Chromatic value also plays a part in creating these pieces.

The House that Daddy Built

The House that Daddy Built is a multimedia installation centered around propaganda from Altria - the 2003 rebranding of Philip Morris Companies, Inc headquartered in Richmond, VA. This work addresses the theft, violence, and greed associated with the early founding of the United States and pivots that against the artists childhood aspiration of becoming a famous architect.
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