STATEMENT OF WORK

Artist Statement and Background

Ms. Huey-Min Chuang is a self-taught artist born in Taiwan, lived in Argentina, educated in Germany, Spain, and the U.S.A.  She currently works and resides in Brooklyn, NY.

She began to draw and paint at 48 years old at the height of the pandemic with her 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 that she had.  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.  With each artwork, Huey-Min communicated the message of “I am alive, so are you.  You are where I am; and I am where you are.” At some point a friend said, “Huey-Min, why not give us some colors, the world especially need colors now.”  With that invocation, she ordered some supplies. 

While she waited for the palette of paints and brushes to arrive, she made her first painting with leftover coffee and coffee grains that she had that day, and she cut up her take out plastic lunch box container into sticks that she would use as “brushes” for her work.  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.

Her 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 embody her work, 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.  Stay a while; never lose your sense of wonder.  Everything will get better. 

Huey-Min’s works have been seen at many venues and at international juried shows, including the Marin Contemporary Art Museum, Watercolor Society of Rhode Island, Trolley Barn Gallery, 6th Louisiana Biennial Show, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art Altoona, Puffin Cultural Forum, Long Island City Artists, Imago Foundation for the Arts, Drawing Rooms, Brooklyn Academy of Music Fisher, and artsy.net.  She was also an Artist in Action at the Smithsonian affiliate, Annemarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center in Solomons Island, Maryland. Huey-Min is a recipient of artistic honors and several international young leader awards.  She has been featured on Forbes magazine, US News and World Report, World Journal, Epoch Times, Radio International Taiwan, AARP recently and interviewed by international and local media. She has been selected recently by White Columns Gallery in NYC to be a part of its curated Artist Registry, and has her first solo show “You Are Welcome Here” at the Voelker Orth Museum in NYC. 

Huey-Min is also the author of the award winning illustrated book, “You Are Where I am,” by H. M. Leona on Amazon, and a co-founder of the dual language charter school, Bronx Global Learning Institute for Girls for 500 young girls, K-8, which was featured in the 2017 Oscar finalist documentary movie “Joe’s Violin.”