Artist Statement
I am a storyteller using fiber and mixed media to tell my stories.
My stories began as personal fables and evolved into social commentaries when I realized that the recycled materials in my work have their own history; having been produced by many other hands on different continents before they came to me.
In my piece “Toxic Habits”, deformed frogs made of cotton remnants are displayed in lab-like archetype using plastic bottles. This piece is a commentary of our consumer habits that fuel the environmental toxic build-up. On the other hand, in “Chronicles of Young Bride” the cultural symbol of Korean womanhood, the Bojaghi, becomes a vehicle to illustrate four specific moments in a woman's marriage and the difficult first years of the new bride’s life in her husband’s household.
In much of my work, graphic elements figure prominently, whether they are compositional elements of facial features or letterforms. I find that these ubiquitous images enrich my intended message because viewers often insert their own stories and memories associated with these images.
By presenting these images in an unexpected perspective, outside the usual context or in a novel material, I invite the viewer to observe them anew as forms clear of preconceptions, to question the symbolisms in these images that we share in our culture, and to toy with and examine the layers of obscured meaning in the viewer’s own memories.
Group Exhibitions
2012 |
Collective Actions, Marin Community Foundation, Novato, CA |
2011 |
Gymboree, 500 Howard St. San Francisco , Jan - Sept
Re: Value, PLEXUS Art Group, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
Hats Off to Roni, Oshman JCC Palo Alto, CA |
2010 |
Intersections 5: Colors_Concepts_Contours, San Francisco, CA
Cross Current, Elsewhere Gallery, Fairfax, CA
Blue Planet Show, SOMArts Center, San Francisco, CA
Zero Cancer, Honor Thy Healer, Mill Valley, CA
Memories and Transition, O’Hanlon Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1 in100: America Behind Bars, Palo Alto Jewish Community Center, CA
1 in100: America Behind Bars, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
Open Craft and Sculpture show, Marin Society of Artists Gallery, Ross |
2009 |
ACCI 2009 National Juried Exhibition, Berkeley, CA
Green Dimensions art exhibit, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
fiber DIMENSIONS at Falkirk, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
Student Spring Salon, College of Marin Fine Arts Gallery, Kentfield, CA
re:Birth (juried), College of Marin Fine Arts Gallery, Kentfield, CA
Pins of Marin, 142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, CA |
2008 |
College of Marin Fine Arts Gallery, Kentfield, CA, Student Spring Salon
College of Marin Fine Arts Gallery, Kentfield, CA Miniature show
O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA For the Love of Fiber |
2007 |
Marin Society of Artists, Kentfield, CA, A Moment in Time
ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA, National Fine Craft Exhibition
Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, Annual Member Show |
2006 |
College of Marin Fine Arts Gallery, Kentfield, CA, Student Show
Marin Society of Artists, Kentfield, CA, National Exhibition
Marin Society of Artists, Kentfield, CA, Annual Member Show |
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Publications
1985 Paul Rand: A Designer's Art, Yale University Press
Graphic Example, p228 on subtopic “word/pictures”
Affiliations
Fiber Dimension
Surface Design
Education
1986 -1987 Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Master's in Fine Arts
Earl Markowitz Scholarship in Fine Arts1986
1984 Yale University, Brissago, Switzerland
Satellite summer program in Graphic Design1980-1984
1980 -1984 Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Teaching and Design Experience
Designer, Project Manager, Milton Glaser, Inc., New York City, NY 1987-1989
Instructor, Augusta College, August Georgia,2000
Selected Project List
2007 Vestry Wines, New York, City, NY
Logo design
2006 Hymn Factory, Stamford, CT
Logo and CD cover design
2001 Strawberry Point Elementary school, Mill Valley, CA
Logo Design, Newsletter Graphic Editor
2000 Discovery Museum, Sausalito, CA
Invitation Design of the Annual Fundraising Gala
2000 Marin Fertility Medical Group, Greenbrae, CA
Corporate Identity
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