Artist Statement

As a first-generation immigrant, my work is influenced by identity, geography, and socioeconomic events. It is focused on figures and their transformation that changes based on the setting. The figure is very important as a subject because it allows the artist to explore texture, color, form, and identity. We tend to empathize or humanize with these figures even if they may not read as a person all the time. My work strives to explore human relationships with the “other”. I often play with the figures and organic shapes, they can be manipulated without losing what their nomenclature represents.

My early work is inspired by artists like Frida Khalo, Diego Rivera, Beckmann, Guston, and Goya and by the socio-politics. My interest in the Setting vs Human. During my formative years, I generated a strong sense of wonder for these relationships between bodies and the environments we place them.