Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture

Re-Cheng Tsang

Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture
Region: Berkeley, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1999
More: www.rechengtsang.com
Re-Cheng Tsang works primarily with porcelain, site-specific installations, and smaller sculptures. The work consists of up to several hundred – sometimes thousands – thin porcelain pieces. Each piece is rolled, pinched, pulled, torn, or otherwise manipulated by hand, then composed within a pre-defined grid. She explores the intrinsic qualities of porcelain, malleable and impressionistic, to create work that is tactile and sensual. She is also interested in the dichotomous relationship between the porcelain’s hardness and permanence, and the resulting work which appears to be delicate, ephemeral and in motion. She works monochromatically, often leaving the porcelain unglazed, to allow the attention to focus on the subtle shifts in form, color, and texture. Her work is in private collections and she exhibits nationally.

Studios

Heinz

Re-Cheng Tsang worked in the Heinz studio.

The icehouse, built of fieldstone in 1914–1915, was a practical part of Marian MacDowell’s plan for a self-sufficient farm. Winter ice cut from a nearby pond was stored here for summer use on the property. Idle since 1940, it was a handsome but outdated farm building. In 1995, Mrs. Drue Heinz, a vice chairman…

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