work

  • UnBecoming: An Annotated Exhibition
    2016

    This exhibition features a new series of large-scale, drawing-based digital prints investigating the problematics of self-portraiture, along with an installation that annotates my creative process within the development of this work.

  • Thy Creature
    2015

    This project responds to Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, Frankenstein. The creature at the heart of this story is an object of both fascination and revulsion. Like all monsters, he exists outside of normative standards and in doing so represents our most fearful selves.

    The drawings are based on Boris Karloff’s performance of the monster, within James Whales’ Frankenstein films from the 1930s. Karloff's iconic representation has come to stand for the very idea of a...

  • All that was left
    2012

    Installed at the Roundhouse Community Centre (Vancouver) as part of the annual Memory Festival, this installation represented fragmented words and phrases taken from the other artworks and theatre projects in the festival.  All that was left explored the limits of language as a vehicle for memory.

  • The Gaze of History
    2012

    The Gaze of History exhibition presented a series of prints and drawings from the Burnaby Art Gallery's collection that considered the gaze and directed looking. The powdered graphite faces I drew directly on the walls of the gallery interacted and responded to these framed works and represented the real and imagined former residents of this building.

    “Fairacres,” as it was first known, was built as a retirement estate by Vancouver realtor Henry Ceperley and his wife...

  • Family (Yoon)
    2009

    The 680 drawings that make up the Family (Yoon) project are based on photos of thirty-four individuals, representing three generations of a large, diasporic family. Each face has been drawn multiple times, with brush and ink on rice paper.

    Dimensions variable, heads range from approx. 20 X 13 cm to 25 x 20 cm

  • The Darkness
    2009

    A ongoing series of drawings.

    Dimensions variable, heads range from approx. 20 X 13 cm to 24 x 18 cm

  • Twins
    2007

    The series Twins represents a pair of conjoined twins whose bodies and identities personify an experience that is deeply relational—where boundaries between one and the other can’t be clearly articulated.

    Series of 39 drawings, each 14 x 9 cm