NADINE ANDERSON CHENG

When I think about my life, I think about everything that led me to this point, making me the artist I am today, from drawing on Sundays with my older brother to my favorite subjects—history and religion in high school, then in college psychology and anthropology. I always asked myself "what made people tick"?
It’s funny, whenever I would travel I would spontaneously follow people I thought interesting, down side streets, into neighborhoods, observing them in their "natural habitat" and how they interacted with others in passing. This led me into many fascinating nooks, exposing me to unfamiliar environments I would not have otherwise discovered and insights I could only have gleaned through the innocent gaze at the unfiltered.
With this, all comes full circle to my never ending quest of "what it means to be human?" Tied into that is my hope to always be a part of a solution for a better world for everyone. My pieces reflect my daily life and my concerns, sometimes in whimsy and sometimes in darkness through the various artistic skills I've learnt. As humans we wear many masks,—my material plaster is molded directly from the faces of myself, friends and family, taking with it a piece of who they are, and turning their stories into art—attached to a soul.
My mission is to create works that starts a conversation, that leads to understanding and is a catalyst for positive change.