"Mike HJ Chang is a Taiwanese American artist and educator in visual arts. He works in variety of medium including sculpture, installation, and drawing. Recently he has been focused on watercolor painting as a way to understand how to use color. His interests include convention of sight, elasticity of motifs, cartoony interpretation of realities. Cartoony because, he wants to articulate a space between sensuous and sloppiness but rather inadequately and somehow convinced that is okay too.
We sit down with the artist in his studio on a rainy afternoon to talk about some of the films, paintings, and drawings that he’s been drawn to over the years. The range of materials Mike picked out reflect the explorative nature of his practice, having worked in various mediums over the years. Over the course of our chat, we manage to touch on the artist’s ideas of sight and seeing, his thoughts on teaching and the enduring quality of humour in his practice."
