Florence Chen is a mixed-media artist working primarily with layered paper, PLA, resin, and acrylic.

Her practice examines how difference, absence, and structural tension can coexist within ordinary scenes. Drawing on familiar imagery, she investigates steadiness, relational space, and the conditions that allow variation without collapse.

Each work is built through deliberate constraint. Decisions of form, spacing, repetition, and material are made with attention to balance and structural logic. Softness and humor appear, but only within a framework of control. The resulting pieces invite sustained looking rather than quick consumption.

Her ongoing series, Nothing Missing, centers on small alterations: a missing limb, a fallen object, an uneven condition; in which nothing reads as broken. Across the series, variation becomes inquiry and repetition becomes refinement.

Chen holds a Ph.D. in engineering and previously worked in renewable energy. These experiences continue to inform her attention to structure, iteration, and material systems.