Project Type: Installation

CR 3.0

2023/4
10 ft h x 9 ft d x 17 ft w
Installation, painting, sculpture

The term “Comfort Room” in the Philippines means “bathroom”: in this series, the term is ironically repurposed to invoke a space for grief, loss, solace and transition, with the paintings and installation set in a fantastical, hotel-like space. Lightweight fake rocks function as semi-comedic surrogates for the ponderous symbolism of real rocks and their evocations of permanence, heaviness and place.

Venue: Frieze LA/Silverlens Galleries booth

Chatsilog Revisited

2022
Installation, photo, video, sculpture
Asian Art Museum

This installation took MOB’s 2010 Chatsilog video as the point of entry for a new, immersive installation in honor of the late Carlos Villa, subject of the Asian Art Museum’s retrospective exhibition of his work and influence.

Comfort Room

Installation with paintings
Coulter Art Gallery

Mise-en-scene in two parts (front stage, back stage) addressing grief, loss, and liminality. The term “Comfort Room” in the Philippines means “bathroom”: here, it’s instead meant to invoke spaces of solace and transition.

Exhibition for the Stanford Art Practice Program’s Holt Visiting Artist Residency, curated by Gabriel Harrison.

 

Fire Season

2021
installation/works on paper
installation shown here: Berkeley Art Center
*new acquisition of the Asian Art Museum

September 9, 2020 was Northern California’s infamous “Orange Day,” when wildfire smoke choked the Bay Area, turning the skies into a doomsday scenario. This specific date, compounded with the early months of the pandemic and other tragic national and personal events, spurred on this body of work.

Fire Season employs the complementary/contrasting colors of orange and blue for both tension and relief,  as well as solitary figures and boxed forms to embody climate crisis, public health crisis, and personal crisis.

Curated by Patricia Cariño Valdez for Berkeley Art Center; by Abby Chen and Naz Çuguoglu for Asian Art Museum.

Klub Rupturre!!

Klub Rupturre!!
installation, video, performance
video TRT 45 min 19 sec
Black & White Projects Gallery
2019

Taking the form of a 1989 regional TV Dance Party, Klub Rupturre!! was a multimedia installation that incorporates painting, performance, video, installation, with an a late 80s palette and soundtrack. In the video, a creepy hostess introduces each song as dancers work their way through a top ten countdown leading up to the moment of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The installation was the set for the video as well as the venue for public events, including a live dance party.

2 minute edit of the 45 minute video here.

This project took place during the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that profoundly reshaped much of the culture of the Bay Area, in a year of great significance globally.

Klub Rupturre!! was funded by an SFAC Individual Artist Commission Grant.