Hurt Me Not My Feelings

Miss Phunk’s journey to becoming an artist started in Brooklyn in 1989 when she was born to a family of immigrants that had escaped Vietnam during the war. Like many artists, her early life was anything but easy, “the struggle” was just normal life for her. After having to leave home at 16 & having her first child at 18 her creativity had to take a back seat to survival. It wasn’t until almost fifteen years later that she rediscovered visual art through her mentor & partner GATSBY. She had struggled with depression & mental health her entire life until realizing that art was an universal language, and then she was able to trade in her antidepressants for spray cans and paint brushes. Her paintings evoke feelings of love, lust, pain, and desire (with a healthy splash of humor); and reflect her unique view of the world.