About
Eva Agus is an artist and environmental engineer working in Oakland, California. Eva explores themes of ecosystem harmony, migration experience, and fragility of life in her art practice.
Raised as a Chinese minority in Jakarta, her visual art blends a modern high-precision feel of her technical training with cultural elements from Indonesia and the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia. Eva loves interpreting her environmental expertise, diaspora history and spiritual philosophy through the lens of traditional textiles. Specialized in applied research, her medium continually evolves, but most prominently featured are painting, drawing, and batik.
Eva is a 5x survivor of head & neck cancer with spinal, hearing, and speech impairments. She practices art to celebrate the human resilience as well as support her meditation on pain, loss, and end of life. In particular, she finds solace in creating intricate patterns found in nature, batik, and Indonesian crafts.
Eva holds a doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and a California Professional Engineer license. Outside the studio, she loves growing and designing with tropical plants and serves on the de Young Museum Flower Committee in San Francisco.
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