Cynthia Chuang and Erh-Ping Tsai

Artist's Statement
Both born and raised in small towns of southern Taiwan, Cynthia Chuang and Erh-Ping Tsai met as classmates at the National Taiwan Academy of Arts. After graduating, they married and moved to America for more complex studies in art. They received graduate degrees in sculpture at the Parsons School of Design, and then entered the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. Their passion for the magnificent beauty of the natural world inspired them both to model all their artwork after earth's creatures.

Chuang and Tsai have focused their work on color, collage and multimedia experimentation, utilizing porcelain, metals, semiprecious stones and many kinds of paints. They also used colored clay inlays, and under- and over-glazing in their porcelains. Much of the jewelry has been developed with three dimensional construction techniques.