“As a Korean-American immigrant artist navigating displacement, I explore the themes of family, identity, and resilience in my art. After graduate school my work began with portrait drawings and abstract expressions based on nature. My portraits focused on satirical and topical paintings, sculptures, and experiential mediums through a synthesis of society, sex, and commercial advertising. These topics began my journey into mixed media. I continued to work on portraits of myself, my family, and immigrant families within my communities. Based on the subject’s occupation, religion, and family relationships, I expressed the process of settling into life in the United States as immigrants. My oil painting works use mixed media and materials with various textures to create three dimensional portraits.”