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Rea Lynn de Guzman
Transferred, 2017
Estimated Value: $500
Image transfer on synthetic organza
11.5 x 15.5 inches
Framed: 17 x 21 inches
Unique
Signed, on back of the frame
Donated by the artist.
This piece "Transferred" was shown at the Tenderloin Museum in 2017 during the artist's solo exhibition entitled "TL Dreams." Blurb from the show below:
Rea Lynn de Guzman is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores psychological and socio-political themes surrounding liminal identity, cultural assimilation, and the Filipino/a diaspora, tempered by her experience as a Filipina immigrant living in the United States. At the age of fourteen, she emigrated from the Philippines to the United States with her single mother, settling eventually in San Francisco. She lived in the Tenderloin—on Turk Street between Taylor and Jones—during most of her formative years (circa 2000-2005).
"TL Dreams" parallels the idea of the “American dream,” inspired by memories shared with the artist's fellow Filipino/a immigrant friends who lived in the Tenderloin neighborhood. It explores the difficult, yet exciting and hopeful journey of finding oneself entangled in a web of changes, cultural confusions, and obstacles while coming of age. The artist reflects on these shadowy memories in muted monochromatic works indicative of her challenging and often painful experience.
About the Artist:
Rea Lynn de Guzman
Rea (pron. RAY-uh) Lynn de Guzman is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, print media, and sculpture. Born in Manila, Philippines, she immigrated to the United States at age 14. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has exhibited work in the US, and internationally in Australia, India, and the Philippines. She was Kearny Street Workshop’s APAture Visual Arts Featured Artist in 2017. In 2019-2020, she curated "Wander Woman" and "Wander Woman 2," a group show series featuring Bay Area-based, immigrant, women artists of color. She has been featured in the Asian Journal Magazine, Hella Pinay, KQED Arts, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications.
She teaches art at the de Young Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, City College of San Francisco Extension, San Francisco Center for the Book, and Root Division, where she served as the organization’s first Filipina Teaching Artist Fellow in 2017. She lives and works in San Francisco.
Press links:
KQED Arts
Emergent Art Space
Website: readeguzman.com
Facebook: /rea.l.deguzman
Instagram: @rayuh_lynn
Venmo: @Rea-deGuzman
