Mylen Tumaliuan-Huggins. Attendance-Presence, 2025.
PRESENCE | NEW WORKS ON PAPER BY MYLEN TUMALIUAN HUGGINS
May 9 - May 22, 2026
Reception | May 1, 6-8 pm
SPECIAL EVENT! Gallery Talk with artist Mylen Tumaliuan-Huggins | May 1, 7 pm
Gallery Hours | M-F 10 am - 4 pm or email to make an appointment
Piano Nobile is honored to feature new work by artist Mylen Tumaliuan-Huggins in our studio this season. Please join for a reception and interview with the artist on May 1.
Mylen Tumaliuan-Huggins | Artist’s Statement
My practice centers on movement and presence.
Through encaustic, oil, monotype, and mixed media, I move across the surface in a process of shifting, pivoting, repetition, and re-imagination. I work in collaboration with my materials, embracing their inherent qualities — the flow of heated wax, the resistance of oil stick, the translucency created through layered depth.
Movement in my work is both literal and metaphorical. It reflects my lived experience of migration, cultural transition, and the ongoing negotiation between inherited identity structures and self-determination. My marks function as pathways — sometimes deliberate, sometimes emergent — that form spatial relationships through gesture, interruption, and negative space.
I am interested in what happens between things — between line and shape, filled and unfilled space, control and unpredictability.
Nature deeply informs my compositions — not as landscape depiction, but as remembered sensation. The droop of branches, the rhythm of lily pads on water, the eroding edge of land, the ripple left by geese crossing an aquatic surface. These observations translate into marks that hold both direction and openness.
My paintings are often intentionally “unfinished.” Completion arrives not when everything is filled, but when the composition feels internally resolved. I accept imperfection as part of emergence.
Ultimately, my work models a way of being—moving with awareness, accepting constraint, and allowing form to arise through presence.