Huey-Min Chuang: "Cosmos Dreaming"

Taiwanese American Arts Council presents “Cosmos Dreaming”, a new collection of mixed media works by Huey-Min Chuang that showcases her love of colors, magical thinking, expressive feelings, and her desire for soulful empowerment. Huey-Min embraces new materials, such as upcycled glass, plastic caps, buttons, and baking sheet papers to render whimsical drawings and paintings. Her works are richly inspired by artists such as Matisse, Chagall, Bonnard, Van Gogh, Shara Hughes, Jade Fadojutimi, Jonas Wood, and Matthew Wong. Huey-Min is often found undertaking new ideas and executing projects at open studios in renowned museums around the world. She experiments with boundaries of space, time, and resources, and is delighted to discover beauty in unlikely places. She is known as a “Painter of Feelings.”

Huey-Min’s works connect diverse cultural islands instilled in Chuang’s upbringing and art expressions. From her childhood experiences of Eastern and Western cultures, opportunities to integrate and explore Latin to American influences, Chuang addresses the isolations and alienation of both physical and psychological transitions and infuses them instead with magical thinking and the belief of beauty and hope. Even when confronted with failures in her art making and in life, she integrates lessons learned into something inspirational, like her baking paper series displayed in the show that originated with applying too much paint onto the parchment paper that obliterated the drawing. She harnesses the mysteries and the forces of the cosmos from billions of years of existence and survival into inner empowerment and powerful narratives. Chuang embraces the invitation of each sunrise as a call for a new beginning. “Yet, I begin …”, is her motto. We each may be an island, but the bridges and resources that we build together bring us into a place of connectedness and love. Cosmos Dreaming is an invitation to explore and share. You are welcome here.

Huey-Min Chuang was born in Taiwan, lived in Argentina, educated in Germany, Spain, and the U.S.A. She currently works and resides in Brooklyn, NY.
A self-taught artist, Chuang began to draw and paint at 48 years old at the height of the pandemic motivated by a desire to celebrate her mom’s tenth anniversary in the cosmic ether during the darkest days of NYC. When words no longer expressed what her soul and heart felt, she began to draw with a black marker. Her black and white ink drawings became a vessel of possibilities in confinement. Time and space vanished whenever she created. She was transported into a brave new world.

The act of sharing these works with her family and friends became a ritual of comfort. She learned that “something” can be created out of nothing, and that everything can be deployed to create change. With that belief, she began to waltz into playful discovery with imagination and live her passion to share her creative works with the universe.

Chuang’s artwork focuses on the theme of resilience. She seeks new ways of seeing by leveraging her intuition and sensation to convey psychological landscapes and emotional responses through forms, lines, cultural interpretations, imagery, and colors. She sheds preconceived ideas and allows serendipity to bring her gifts of spontaneity. They welcome her with alternative creative processes, imagination, and hues that bring forth a narrative of hope and infinite possibilities. She invites you to lean closer, walk into the picture, take a seat, feel the rain drops on your face, hold the breeze in your heart, breathe in, and then exhale.

Her works have been seen at many venues and at international juried shows, including the Marin Contemporary Art Museum, Governors Island Taiwanese American Arts Council, Watercolor Society of Rhode Island, NYC Parks, Trolley Barn Gallery, 6th Louisiana Biennial Show, International AACAP Conference Art Show, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art Altoona, Culture Lab LIC, Puffin Cultural Forum, Long Island City Artists, Imago Foundation for the Arts, Drawing Rooms, CUNY QCC Gallery, Brooklyn Academy of Music Fisher, Artboxy Basel, and artsy.net. She was also an Artist in Action at the Smithsonian affiliate, Annemarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center in Solomons Island, Maryland. She is a recipient of artistic honors, prizes, and several international young leader awards. She has been featured on Forbes magazine, U.S. News and World Report, Radio International Taiwan, World News Journal, the Epoch Times in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and New York. She is part of White Columns Gallery curated Artist Registry, and had her first solo show “You Are Welcome Here” at the Voelker Orth Museum in NYC in 2023. Her second solo show, “Cosmos Dreaming,” is on Governors Island in 2024.
For additional information on Huey-Min Chuang, please visit: www.HMC88.com; Instagram: Hueyminchuang; This Self-Taught Artist Picked Up A Paintbrush At Age 48. Now The Art World Has Discovered Her. (forbes.com)
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