I’m a second generation Taiwanese-American artist and writer based in Los Angeles. I work in ceramic sculpture and glaze, as well as mixed media painting. My practice is in conversation with the non-Western art, the history of ceramics, and painting. Material research is central to my practice. Drawing from Song Dynasty glaze innovations, I’m interested in expressing emotion, bi-cultural identity, and the erosion of time through surface and glaze. I make a range of work, from Chinese, Greek, and Persian inspired large vessels with painterly glaze compositions, 3D printed ceramic reliefs, to slab glaze paintings.

In my mixed media painting, I combine paper pulp, raw ceramic materials such as red iron oxide and kaolin, pigment, lava rock, glass, and acrylic paint into a dirt landscape, incorporating ceramic shards and glaze test tiles into a visual language of earth minerals. My paintings explore the relationship between ceramics, environmental erosion, and the natural world.

My work is influenced science fiction futurism, video games, and a Southern California immigrant upbringing, between my parent’s pizzaria in Torrance, California and Taiwan. My work has been featured in The New York Times: T Magazine, Surface Magazine, and MilK Decoration, and I’ve recently exhibited at Laisun Keane (Boston), Stroll Garden (LA), Rhett Baruch (LA), and Object & Thing (New York).