Chinatown & Beyond.
A collection shaped by the life of Boston’s Chinatown, Filipino family heritage, and artistic conversations across Asia. Through color and stillness, each painting reveals a world of its own.
藝術 · 文化 · 韌性Scroll to discoverA place for stories to breathe.
Here, a flower stall can become a sanctuary. Two people standing face to face can speak without words. A fall of golden leaves can hold the weight of a lifetime.
Onolee Mabazza’s Filipino heritage and Uchenna Obinabo-Mabazza’s more than six years working in Boston’s Chinatown give this exhibition a deeply personal foundation. The paintings move through Chinese-influenced urban scenes, Japanese-inspired imagery, and broader reflections on human connection.
Their worlds are distinct, yet they meet in shared experiences: devotion, loss, remembrance, friendship, and the courage to begin again.
The people and places behind the collectionFour windows.
Many worlds.
A flower stall, a quiet exchange, the glow of moonlight, a solitary figure beneath autumn leaves: four paintings, each with its own emotional world.
文Enter the artwork ↗The Flower Stand
A storefront becomes a world of its own. Two figures meet beneath a great cloud of blossoms, where beauty is both livelihood and a language of care.
藝Enter the artwork ↗Language of Blossoms
Two figures face one another among winter branches. The space between them becomes as eloquent as the embroidered fabric they wear.
記Enter the artwork ↗Moonlit Waters
A vast white waterbird, a luminous moon, and two travelers on still water assemble a scene between memory and myth.
韌Enter the artwork ↗Fall of the Gingko Leaves
Beneath a shower of golden ginkgo leaves, stillness becomes a kind of strength. A painting about the fragile interval between loss and renewal.
Even in falling,
there is life.
In Fall of the Gingko Leaves, the ancient tree offers a language for transformation, remembrance, and the courage to begin again.
韌 Encounter the paintingA visual language
of belonging.
A traditional Chinese moon gate opens from one garden view into another. That sense of discovery frames an exhibition shaped by the many ways culture, memory, and belonging become part of a life.
Art can be a bridge
back to one another.
The Mabazza Foundation creates and sells original art, alongside donated and consigned works. Proceeds available after expenses and agreed artist or owner shares help support cancer-support organizations. Community projects extend that commitment through art, dignity, and human connection.