CalArts, MFA Thesis Exhibition, D301, March 2025

Solo Group Show explores fractured identity and spectacle in the digital-industrial age, staging a collision between materiality and illusion – between the body as a constructed form and the self as an ephemeral projection. In this theatrical alter-realm of cloned selves, the artist’s identity is untethered, splintered, and constantly recomposing itself in mirrored fragments.
Each sculpture, created through hours of 360° LiDAR scanning, is digitally re-sculpted and 3D-printed in raw, uncured white resin or crystal. Frozen in uncanny poses and jarring pairings, these cloned figures defy the logic of utility and mass production associated with digital fabrication.
Individually lit by pin spots, the sculptures’ oversized shadows extend beyond form into something more elusive. Dispersed yet interconnected, they oscillate between isolation and participation – alien when alone, almost ritualistic as a group. Suspended between formation and erasure, the sculptures reflect a self in perpetual flux, shifting across time, memory, and perception.
Accompanying the sculptures, a multi-channel video – set to the manic blare of fanfare horns – stages an altar to the spectacle, invoking surveillance, fragmentation, and alienation. Across three projector screens, an unrelenting sequence of spotlights, floodlights, and searchlights—lights that stage, seek, trap, and exalt—scan abandoned theaters, vacant stadiums, grandstands, rallies, and red carpets, all heralding one great big non-event. A site where spectacle and void converge, Solo Group Show dissolves the self into light, shadow, and the empty architectures of collective longing.

Penitent v. Paparazzo, 2025

Uncured, bone-white PLA, brushed metal casing, white ash dais, clay paving bricks, acacia, 2 LED, pin spots (5V, 5W)

*Micro-Martyr (XS)**, 2025*

oxidized steel, high-temp SLA resin, McMaster-Carr deck nail #97801A110 (3D-STEP), steel ledge, upright gallery pedestal, 1 LED pin spot (5V, 5W)

Artists in Repose, 2025

8K transparent HTPLA, crystal particulate, mica powder, fur, kiln-dried wood plinth, 2 LED mini spots (3.5V, 3W)

Solo Stick Up (Yesterdays Threaten Tomorrows), 2025

Uncured, bone-white PLA, mirror, horizontal gallery pedestal, clay paving bricks, 2 LED pin spots (5V, 5W)

SPECIAL THANKS

Michael Ned Holte, Harry Dodge, Sharon Lockhart, Julie Tolentino,Charles Ray, Scott Benzel, Steven Lam, Tom Bland, Michael Darling

Solo Group Show