About

I am a partially schooled and partially self-taught artist. I studied painting for a year at the MFA in Boston, and conceptual and interactive art design at the MIT Media Laboratory in Cambridge, where I did my PhD, specializing in Emotion-related Computing and Wearables. I’ve shown work around the Boston area, including The Bromfield and Galatea galleries and the Mosesian Art Center, and abroad at the Deutsche-Hygiene Museum in Dresden, Germany. My pieces are installed permanently at the MIT Media Lab and at the Cambridge Innovation Center at One Broadway. I’ve worked in many kinds of media, ranging from ink drawing and paint to digital and graphic work, projection, wearables design, VR/AR and performance.

Artist Statement

My art practice is rooted in my identity as a scientist. I have always been fascinated with the physics of reality, and I strive to gain a bigger picture of it with every moment I experience. Artmaking is one method I use to achieve this deeper understanding of reality. For me, creativity is an act of analysis. Art enables me to communicate my intellectual fixations in a visual dimension, and, by consequence, deepen them. This highlights the emphasis I place on data. Inspired by my scientific training, I have an affinity for experimentation in the studio. Every object or sketch I make serves as information which I can reference in my future works. Likewise, every new discovery I make in one discipline allows me to dive deeper into the other. The result is a constant cycle of innovation and growth.

Fusing art with science has led me to work across an interdisciplinary set of media and take inspiration from many fields of knowledge. From abstract painting and illustration to functional engineered objects like wearables, I am constantly challenged to strike a balance between the technical and the creative aspects of my work. I find myself drawn to the methodological and mathematical tendencies of nature, such as organic patterns and textures, fractals and trees, processes like decay and fissure, and randomization and layering; as well as the psychological and linguistic elements of communication, such as emotion, memory, and symbol. I find that mixing traditional and technological media accurately reflects the calculable nature of reality that I am so fascinated by.

It is my hope that my work inspires my viewers by helping them to think in new ways about difficult concepts like infinity and time. My current body of work, Glyphs, symbolically explores the immeasurable paths one can take through something, and achieves this by layering and erasing marks over and over again until a single narrative element is left.