About

I am a San Francisco–based painter working in abstraction. As an immigrant, I carry a sensitivity to adaptation and displacement—not as narrative, but as a condition that shapes how I paint and how the work unfolds.

I do not begin with a fixed image. Each painting develops through an extended dialogue with the canvas. Marks are added, buried, scraped away, and rediscovered as I respond to what the surface asks of me. Through layering, disruption, and revision, the painting gradually finds its own structure. It is finished not when it illustrates an idea, but when it achieves an internal coherence—when it can stand on its own.

Color becomes weight, pressing, lifting, and holding the surface in tension. Layered gestures and shifting scales create fields where movement is simultaneously restrained and released. Texture carries the memory of the painting's own making; surfaces accumulate, resist, and transform.

I am less interested in image than in presence—in how paint can hold mass, time, and sensation, allowing meaning to emerge through the experience of looking rather than through representation.