Star is an interdisciplinary artist who recently relocated to Los Angeles to pursue their MFA at Otis College of Art and Design. They hold a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. 

Exploring imperfection, vulnerability, and a sense of play, Star creates process-based textile compositions that also become giclée prints layered with simple drawings. The threads are intentionally left untrimmed, seams visible and patterns displayed on the “wrong side.” Drawings of simple figures and swinging balls explore community, aloneness, vulnerability and protection invite us to ponder fate, the unknown, synchronicity and the universal power that makes all of life move.  

Contemplating immediacy and vastness at once by bringing the micro and macro together, allegories emerge within the work about the significance and insignificance of the individual, as well as speaking to destiny, chance and destruction. By making these figures symbolically human without any defining attributes, they invite everyone to see themselves in the work.

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