Hi, I’m Rylan!
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I’m a pre-program student focused on material science in art conservation to uncover historical art materials and techniques, particularly in paintings and paper-based artworks.
Here, you can find my works in: Conservation = my brain, Curation = my spirit, and Fine Arts = my heart. To me, each addresses a different requirement of cultural memory: how objects survive, how they are interpreted, and how raison d'être is generated through making. My practice treats these as one workflow, not separate identities.
Welcome to my yapping! :D
BFA in Studio Art & BA in Art History @ Tufts University
Conservation ✧
Explore my conservation and collections care work at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, where I supported the preservation of a historic house collection through hands-on treatment and site-specific practice.
Oil Painting
Conservation
Independent project. Coming soon!
The Mellon Opportunity for Diversity in Conservation
My learning experience in this summer workshop (2025). Coming soon!
Curation ✧
As Art Curator and Director, I led the full curatorial and production process for “Bac Nhip Tang Bong,” an exhibition and event series about Vietnamese traditional performance arts through the contemporary lens.
Fine Arts ✧
Painting
A cabinet of curiosities comprised a painting made from 6 historic blue pigments, with the imagery inspired by conservation scientifc imaging techniques.
A painting exploring cyclical history and eternal return through Flemish-inspired glazing techniques.
A spatial reflection on belonging, memory, and human presence within a specific place. Paper cutouts and many layers of chine collé.
An attempt to reconstruct traditional Vietnamese iconography techniques with distemper painting and gold gilding on dó paper.
Papermaking & Artist’s Book
An artist’s book combining papermaking and lithography, examining memory, repetition, and transformation through the flag-book structure and handmade paper.
A carousel artist’s book that reinterprets Ptolemaic world maps, exploring how ancient systems of knowledge shaped humanity’s understanding of the world and the cosmos.
A clamshell box merging bookmaking and tempera painting, presenting personal memory as fragmented, episodic objects held in unstable order.
A work on handmade paper inspired by the Egyptian Lake of Fire, reflecting on fragmentation, punishment, and the fragile boundary between destruction and regeneration.
A sculptural installation using handmade paper and organic materials, meditating on departure, transformation, and the tension between fragility and endurance.
A folio artist’s book structured around twelve Victorian envelopes, engaging time, secrecy, and cyclical reading through participatory assembly.
A pulp painting on handmade paper that uses material contrast to express grief, loss, and the quiet persistence of hope.
A hand-bound poetry book using Japanese stab binding, where text, image, and paper layers unfold through reading. The work explores remorse, memory, and emotional asymmetry through sequential concealment and reveal