Oops, 2026
In Plain Sight
Florence Chen
ARTSOURCE@ GALLERY
June 5 — August 2, 2026
Opening reception: Friday, June 5, from 5-9 pm
In Plain Sight brings together a series of paper-based mixed-media works that invite viewers into moments that feel playful, strange, tender, or quietly uneasy. Across the collection, ordinary subjects become vehicles for examining the subtle contradictions embedded within daily life. Humor sits beside discomfort, softness beside structure, and absence beside presence. Meaning emerges gradually through small shifts in perspective, where what first appears simple or decorative begins to reveal a more complex, layered reality underneath.
Through paper quilling, sculptural construction, and layered material forms, the exhibition asks viewers to slow down, adjust their focus, and look more closely at what may have been there all along, hidden in plain sight.
Florence Chen is a Delaware-based contemporary artist working primarily with paper and mixed media. Her work explores how absence, variation, and structural tension coexist within ordinary scenes, balancing humor, fragility, and connection through layered forms and familiar imagery.
Chen holds a Ph.D. in Engineering and previously worked in leadership roles within Silicon Valley technology companies. That background subtly informs her structured and process-oriented approach to material and form. Alongside her art practice, she also teaches paper quilling workshops.
