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What if Blue Skies Were Red

"What if Blue Skies were Red?" 2024 acrylic on 40 X 60 in. canvas A sequel to "Blue Skies" in 2021, a time where I feared living holistically to my art and persona. Questioning if I should pursue tattooing, accepting my family's visions, meet people's expectations, grow from my insecurities as an artist. Now in 2024, I see that painting and question how to live truly to my craft, my vision's potential, the relationship with myself and my art - how blue skies could be red.​​​

Blue Skies

"Blue Skies" 2021 acrylic on 30 X 40 in. canvas Women are the vastness, freedom, resilience, the rain and the sun, the clouds and the storms, the natural disasters and the mood of our day. The portrayal of their bodies should be just as admired as blue skies.

Soft Spoken

"Soft Spoken" 2021 acrylic on 36 X 72 in. linen canvas. I am soft spoken with my voice. I don't always speak at a loud volume. It takes effort to be heard, for my traditional family to hear my voice, for my friends to hear my fear or losing them, for myself to hear my own insecurities. Someone had told me to speak softly to reserve my singing voice so it stays resonate and I think about that quite often.

Chop Society

"Chop Society" 2020 oil on 16 X 16 in. primed wood panel

Tendencies

"Tendencies" 2021 acrylic on 12 X 16 in. round canvas We all have tendencies. The tendencies I have with my eyes with exotropia and astigmatism, when they act up and impair my vision. The tendencies I have trying to save myself from falling apart yet I always sink back into quick sand.

Miles Deep

"Miles Deep" 2022 oil on 30 X 40 in. canvas Jellyfish are immortal, complex, luminescent...I imagine living in the sky above the earth just as jellyfish do miles deep in the waters.

Apology Letter

"Apology Letter" 2022 acrylic on 16 X 20 in. clayboard We all owe ourselves an apology for the doubts, the self criticism, the wrongs that we never forgave ourselves for. This painting was an apology letter to me for all of that.

Disorder

"Disorder" 2022 oil on 16 X 20 in. canvas How does the definition of disorder compare to what your reality is in your own head?

Slipknot

"Slipknot" 2020 oil on 20 X 20 in. gesso board I painted the entirety of this painting with the song "Slipknot" by XXXTentacion in the background. This piece is the introduction to my surrealist aspiration & approach.

Zero Degrees

"Zero Degrees" 2023 oil on 18 X 22 in. gesso board The feeling of being surrounded by your own insecurities to pursue art when you are amidst a sea of expectations to obtain a degree and become a nurse...it becomes cold, stranded and a cry for help.

Surrealism meets horror.

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Victoria's sentimentality and the bridge between her Asian-American experiences and her feelings exists in a realm of endless imagination portrayed through playful, yet eerie perspectives, vibrant color palettes, and bold/charismatic women characters. Since Victoria was a child, she has always visited and revisited those same kinds of illogical imagery, memories, dreams, and intuition - the ones that scare, intrigue, confuse. Here, everything she can possibly think of and relate to are just as tangible as everyday objects that take visual form through oil and acrylic paint.

 

Recreating stories within their own stories; capturing familiar memories and the feelings they used to bring her in the style she cultivates as horror and surrealism and translating it from a canvas to a permanent body. The results, which are never predictable, come out as complex and meaningful as her. This is how Victoria plans to inspire and be inspired.

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