Art Festival: Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art Arts Festival
Date/Time: May 17, 10am–6pm
May 18, 11am–5pm
Location: Booth 224,Reston Town Center, 12001 Market St., Reston, VA 20190
Date/Time: May 17, 10am–6pm
May 18, 11am–5pm
Location: Booth 224,Reston Town Center, 12001 Market St., Reston, VA 20190
Now in its 34th year, the Tephra ICA Arts Festival will take place on May 17-18, 2025 at Reston Town Center. Over 200 contemporary artists and artisans will travel from across the country to present original artwork to share with Festival audiences. I have done the show three or four times years ago in the jewelry category, but now Im back exhibiting my photographs.
Find me in booth 224.
Art Exhibition Reception: Fragments of Memories
Date: May 10
Date: May 10
Time: 4–6PM
Location: Studio Gallery 2108 R St NW, Washington, DC 20008
Location: Studio Gallery 2108 R St NW, Washington, DC 20008
You are invited to the opening reception on May 10 for Fragments of Memories, a two-person mini show featuring new work by Amity Chan and me, at Studio Gallery April 23–May 18.
Together, Amity and I explore how personal memory and political history shape our sense of place—across borders and generations. Through paintings, sculptures, collages, and video, the exhibition traces connections between Hong Kong and Washington, D.C., looking closely at the impact of authoritarian takeovers on identity, culture, and community.
Amity draws from her childhood in Hong Kong to reconstruct familiar spaces like schools and malls, using personal photographs and manga-inspired painting to reflect on cultural rituals and the effects of rapid urban change.
My work weaves together personal and political narratives from both Hong Kong and D.C., drawing parallels between the 1997 China takeover and the more recent erosion of D.C.'s autonomy. I’ll be showing two manga-inspired paintings, a video installation, and twelve mini protest posters—six for D.C. and six for Hong Kong—alongside snow globes and collages that capture moments of resistance, loss, and transformation.
Fragments of Memories reveals how memory is never static—it’s shaped by the shifting terrain of place, power, and the will to remember.
Gallery Talk: Monumental Washington
Date: May 3
Time: 2–3PM
Location: The American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center 4400 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016
Date: May 3
Time: 2–3PM
Location: The American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center 4400 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016
Join me for an open-air conversation about the exhibition Monumental Washington in the American University Museum’s Sculpture Courtyard at the Katzen Arts Center. Presented by the Washington Sculptors Group in partnership with the American University Museum, this outdoor exhibition showcases contemporary sculpture by twenty artists. The Gallery Talk will be facilitated by juror Laura Roulet with me and fellow exhibiting artists Bobby Donovan, Nicholas Femia, Luc Fiedler, Kenneth Hilker, Noel Kassewitz, Jean Kim, Barbara Liotta, Dalya Luttwak, Alex Mayer, Kristina Penhoet, Davide Prete, Joshua Prince, Rafael Rodriguez, Jon-Joseph Russo, Craig Schaffer, Foon Sham, Daniel Shay, Tatyana Shramko, and Michael Wolf.
Free admission and parking—open to all. Don’t miss it!
Tides of Change is just beginning!
Check back for updates on this exciting public art project in Virginia Beach.
"Up in the Air" mural, photographic collage printed on vinyl, 168 x 108 inches
"Up in the Air" is a powerful public art project led by 2024 Environmental Justice Artivist Fellows Leo Arismendi and Lynda Andrews-Barry. It illuminates the urgent need for clean air, addressing the pressing issue of air pollution impacting Ward 5 residents in the District every day. This vivid mural elevates the community's faces and voices, calling for meaningful action toward cleaner, healthier air.
Up In The Air stands with Ward 5 in their demand for clean air.
"Reflections in the Woods" recycled acrylic sheets, collected vintage frames, steel rods. mechanical fasteners
September–November
"Butterflies in the Outhouse", rubberized branch, aluminum, 4-channel video, mechanical fasteners
July–August
2108 R St. NW, Washington, DC 20008
"Eunice (Looking In)" (left), "Constance" (right), acrylic paintings with collaged photographs printed on archival papers, ink, 10 x 14 inches each
April 24–May 18
2108 R St. NW, Washington, DC 20008
acrylic sheets with acrylic paints, PLA, mechanical fasteners, 24 x 24 inches
801 22nd Street NW, Washington DC 20052
March 21–May 16
Wed-Saturday 1– 5 pm
so honored to be a part of this important effort of environmental artivism with this amazing crew.
learn more about it here.
Petrichor is my first solo show at Studio Gallery happening
March 29-April 22, 2023
You can see more of my work at The Anthenaeum in Alexandria.
In and Between is an Athenaeum Sculpture Invitational
Curated by Steve Wanna
January 12 — February 5, 2023
Read the Washington Post Review here
The Aviary was installed at Sandy Spring Museum for Artina 2022.
Read more information about the installation here.
Here is a glimpse of Landscapes a new hardcover book of some of my mezzotint photographs.
What: Pearl Dream in Sculpture Now 2022
Where: Harmony Hall Art Center
When: April 22 • June 3•2022
Where: Harmony Hall Art Center
When: April 22 • June 3•2022
What: Butter & Salmon in Studio Gallery's All Member Show
Where: Washington•DC
When: March 2 • March 26•2022
Where: Washington•DC
When: March 2 • March 26•2022
What: Quiet Code
Where: Frederick•Maryland
When: June 30 thru February•2022
Where: Frederick•Maryland
When: June 30 thru February•2022
Learn more about the Frederick Barns Project here.
What: Pearl Dream
Where: Foggy Bottom Biennial
When: June 5 thru September 26•2021
Where: Foggy Bottom Biennial
When: June 5 thru September 26•2021
Learn more about the Foggy Bottom Biennial here.
What: Passage
Where: Arlington Arts Center
When: August 22•2020 thru February 28•2021
Where: Arlington Arts Center
When: August 22•2020 thru February 28•2021
Learn more about the Passage project here.
My mezzotint photographs were part of the American Lines exhibition that ran from January 14-February 12 2021 and benefitted Anacostia Arts Center.
view it here.
FishLite/NiteFish rotoscoped video animation was in a group exhibition -SCULPTURE NOW 2020 at McLean Project for the Arts with other Washington Sculpture Group members.
The show ended November 17th 2020 but is still viewable online.