Radiance

oil on canvas, 2023, 40 x 40”

Mirage

oil on canvas, 2023, 30 x 36”

Mirror

oil and mica powder on canvas, 2023, 34 x 38”

Sunset Seeking (Installation View)

A series of painted and ceramics works installed in the Institute of Contemporary Art @ MECA&D, presented as part of the 2023 MECA&D MFA Thesis Exhibition.

Blush

terra sigillata and glaze on mid-fire ceramic, 2023, approx. 12 x 12 x 14”

Keep A Quiet Fire

terra sigillata on mid-fire ceramic, 2022, approx. 12 x 12 x 12”

Burning Yearning

terra sigillata and oil paint on mid-fire ceramic, 2022, approx. 12 x 12 x 14”

Glimmer

terra sigillata, glaze, and oil paint on mid-fire ceramic, 2023, approx. 12 x 12 x 12”

Dusk

terra sigillata and glaze on mid-fire ceramic, 2023, approx. 12 x 10 x 10”

Kindled

terra sigillata, poly-acrylic, and wax on mid-fire ceramic, 2022, approx. 12 x 12 x 12”

Sunset

terra sigillata, glaze, and oil paint on mid-fire ceramic, 2023, approx. 12 x 12 x 12”

Golden Hour

terra sigillata and oil paint on mid-fire ceramic, 2024, approx. 12 x 12 x 12”

Glinting

Terra sigillata and oil paint on mid-fire ceramic, 2024, approx. 12 x 12 x 12 inches

Flare

terra sigillata on mid-fire ceramic, 2024, approx. 12 x 12 x 12 inches

Kindred Spirit

terra sigillata, oil paint, and glaze on mid-fire ceramic, 2023, approx. 30 x 12 x 10”

Kindred Spirit (back)

terra sigillata, oil paint, and glaze on mid-fire ceramic, 2023, approx. 30 x 12 x 10”

Sunset Seeking: Psychedelic Color and Light in the Landscape (2023)

Sunset Seeking is a series of painted and ceramic works that locate the natural world as a realm of possibility: as a source of transformative encounters that generate feeling and awe, positioning the magical within the observable. Like the light that creates the many colors seen during a sunset, a simultaneous experience of oscillating color as light and light as color is psychedelic. A psychedelic use of prismatic light and spectral, ‘rainbow’ coloring in combination with landscape subjects becomes a visual strategy to give form to feelings of awe to reinforce a feeling that life is good and worth living.

Installation Documentation at the Institute of Contemporary Art @ MECA&D by Art Archival / Joel Tsui