APAture 2023

Seven panels in my series Blue Remnants were included in the Kearney Street Workshop’s APAture 2023 Visual Showcase presented at ARC Gallery & Studios in San Francisco, CA from October 14 through November 4, 2023.  Dimensions: 19’ x 9’ x 1’

Statement: In the Blue Remnants series, I try to make sense of the history and culture I inherit as a mixed-race, Filipino-American. My father returned to the Philippines when I was 14 years old to escape the dehumanizing, white supremacist culture of the United States. With him, my direct tie to Filipino culture, food, and language left, defeated. And thus began my experience of never quite belonging, of not quite knowing where to find my cultural inheritance. I was left only with memories. But is this personal experience entirely different from the broader experience of a repeatedly colonized people where so much of our history and culture takes the form of ghosts and tortured memories, from which we attempt to cobble together a national narrative to recreate a sense of continuity?

Bellingham National 2023

Later that year, six panels were included in the Whatcom Museum’s Bellingham National 2023 in Bellingham, WA. The exhibition, Acts of Healing and Repair,  was curated by Grace Kook-Anderson, The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art at the Portland Art Museum and was on view at the Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher Building from November 11, 2023 through February 25, 2024.

Tales of the Tattoo 2022

In 2022, three panels were included in Tales of the Tattoo held by the Museum of Northern California Art in Chico, CA from August 25 through October 9, 2022.