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When Huey-Min Chuang started dabbling in art at the age of 48 during the pandemic, she didn’t expect her work to be exhibited in museums.
However, it turned out that she had a hidden talent, and today her work is exhibited in museums. She announced her Sunday, February 12, at 2:00 p.m. opening of her exhibition “You Are Welcome Here,” at the Volker Orth Art Museum in Flushing, Queens, NY, interviews her about her journey as an artist and as a sole proprietorship. This exhibition is her first solo exhibition and will run until April 11, 2023. The exhibition marks the tenth anniversary of her mother’s passing.
An employee of New York City’s Economic Development Agency, Chuan got into art when the organization transitioned to working from home and found the lonely hours stretched out before her in her Brooklyn, New York apartment. .
“I felt like we were going through the darkest days of our lives,” she says. “In the dark, I could see better. I somehow connected with the universe.”
She soon realized that art could express how much she missed her mother, who died of cancer ten years ago. “She was a brave person,” says Chuan. “I felt like she was generic.”
Huey-Min Chuang discovered a hidden artistic talent at the age of 48.
Beginning to draw in black and white ink with markers, she found solace and inspiration in drawing a box containing her mother’s ashes. With her family suggesting she incorporate color into her work, she quickly transitioned to colorful, Impressionist painting, cutting plastic lunch containers to make brushes and waiting for supplies to arrive. I extracted the color from the coffee grounds in between. Arrived by mail. She soon embarked on a series of resilience-themed paintings with titles such as Dancing in the Rain and From Here To There, We Are Always Together.
The world was fixed, but Chuang remembered that his mind was free to draw. “Art spoke to me when I couldn’t do anything else,” she says.
“Welcome” by Huey Ming Chuan
Chuang was discovered after responding to an open call from a group of artists in Long Island City. Since she accepted the public offering, work Exhibited in museums and jury-run shows, it has turned into a thriving private business. Includes Museum, Puffin Cultural Forum, 6.th Louisiana Biennale Show, Southern Allegheny Museum, Trolley Byrne Gallery, Rhode Island Watercolor Society. In the process, she was named an Artist in Action at the Smithsonian affiliate, the Annemarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center in Solomons Island, Maryland. Recently, her White Columns Gallery in NYC selected her to be part of her Curated Artist Registry.
Chuan says his work reflects his cultural background and childhood experiences. Born in Taiwan, the self-taught artist moved to Argentina at the age of ten and lived there under the care of his teenage brother. He returns home for his father, who had trouble learning his language, to find him a job, and to his mother to run the school he started. “I had to be very resourceful to live a normal life, learn a new language, go to school, and play with every resource I could get my hands on,” she recalls. Outside of school, the children ran the family’s small grocery store. One of Chuan’s duties was to run to currency exchange with a backpack full of cash before money lost its value in the turbulent economy of the time.
Independent and independent, Chuan excelled in school and attended Brown University. In her early career, she worked in investment banking before she held positions in non-profit organizations and government departments.
Chuan also wrote an award-winning picture book. you are where i am, Co-founded 500 Girls, a bilingual charter school for K-8, the Bronx Global Learning Institute for Girls. The school, where girls had the chance to play the violin every day and learn ballet, was featured in the 2017 Oscar-finalist documentary film. Joe’s violin.
In this current chapter of her life, Chuang is focused on growing as an artist. “I don’t want to be bound by rules or boundaries,” she says. “What comes out is the most true and natural.”
