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.

Installation and events
Kala Art Institute Gallery
2017

Installation as glowing stage for various actions designed to improve people’s “mettle” and feelings of safety, post-election and post-Ghost Ship fire. This project encouraged participants to shed fear and feel more in control of their lives and emotions in multiple forms.

Actions in the space included a youth journalism podcast event about the fire, an internet privacy/safety for activists workshop, a self-defense video shoot, and numerous “safety selfies” on yellow paper. The space was bookended by 2 large illustrated prints of Kala’s 2 closest fire stations; 2 strong boxes in dreamy, inviting environments to convey calm, courage, protection and hope.

Print Public Fellowship Exhibition, Mayumi Hamanaka, curator

wall painting
Museum of Craft and Folk Art
San Francisco
2011

Hand-painted recreation of Sister Corita Kent’s* Some Rules for Students and Teachers.
Commissioned for the E is for Everyone: Celebrating Sister Corita exhibition at MOCFA.

(*often misattributed to John Cage, who contributed Rule 10.)