INSPIRATIONS PAGE
To all of the artist that have influence my work. Thank you.
“As [an] artist, the biggest challenge to me is not to repeat myself.”
— Hung Liu
Hung Liu is a Chinese-born American, whose contemporary works was one of the first Chinese artist to establish and create a name for herself, and she is regarded as "the greatest Chinese painter within the US"
I know that Liu was one of the staple artist that had reinvented my practice as an artist. She was the first artist that I had seen that used traditional Eastern art that was painted in a Western contemporary manner. She had abetted me in finding my paint language, and a concentrate of both of my cultures; the Chinese-born American had recreated my ideas of being an American-born Chinese.
SANTIAGO SIERRA
Santiago Sierra a well known Spanish artist, known for his installations and performance pieces that deal with social inequities, reflecting moral, ethical, social, and economical concerns.
Thematics of luxury, privilege, visibility and invisibility.
Sierra's performances are such an inspiration within my conceptual perception of art and what it means to create purposeful art. It sparks the contemporary conceptuality within myself to create more dynamic pieces that I hope to create someday. From installation to performances, it allows space and a voice for myself to freely perform in.
MAGGI HAMBLING
"Every portrait is like a love affair- a painting can come alive and die many many times."
Maggi is British painter and sculptor, that is represented within the contemporary. She is recognized for her expressive portraits, and paintings of the sublime landscapes.
Hambling reinvented my idea of the cycle of my work and how Hambing has changed this idea of my practice and what it means to create art during moments that were meant to create art.
What cycles of life meant to me and my artwork, how a piece can be born yet die many times again, and how this concept ties into my practice and my life.
JAMES JEAN
"You'll only find your voice through the struggle." - James Jean
James Jean is a Taiwanese-American artist that was born in Taiwan and raised in New Jersey. He soon lived in Los Angeles and later moved to New York for his early education. He primarily works with painting and drawing with a vibrant and abstract artistic expression.
Combined imaginative creates, loose figures, and gestural marks, and lined doodles, that were both experimental and finished pieces of their own.
Jean creates these large, beautiful, abstracted, vibrant pieces that really motivate me and my skill and technicalities. His gestural strokes allow my brushes and pencils to wander feely. To push my works towards a imaginable size, and purposefully loose strokes.
Growing up similarly connects me more to this artist conceptually.
SARAH AWAD
"I try to deliberately make wrong decisions, it's about making a fictional decision. The beauty of painting is that it can be fictional, and it's the fictional observation of interpretation." - Sarah Awad
Sarah Awad born and raised in Pasadena, CA; now works and lives in LA. Awad paints with a flood of Fauvist colors, and abstract gestural figures. A observational painter who works with modern, contemporist take. A series of "gate" paintings, and color blocked figures. Inspired by works of Matisse, and Picasso.
Award's vision and perception of colors, and forms is absolutely one of the most magnificent pieces of works that I have ever seen. Awad has given speeches of struggles during her practice of work, and how the struggles leads to success. Her usage of color is so seductive and captivating.