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Huang Yanheng
Kate Huang

About Kate Huang

Restoration from Crispness: Discovering Beauty Between Transparency and Solidity

Each piece is a dialogue between emotion and material.

I use plaster and glass as my main creative materials.

Explore the themes of “vulnerability, envelopment, and rebirth”.


Plaster is for repair, glass is fragile;

The combination of the two constructs a space of emotions that is both strong and fragile.

Emotions are never uncaptureable fluctuations in the depths of one's heart.

Rather, it is a shape that can be observed and understood.

Plaster reminds us that brittle fragments can be caught, rather than hidden.

I like this contradictory force: We crave to be seen, yet we fear being too transparent;
We want to protect ourselves, but we don't want to lose our ability to feel.

Preserving light within transparency, discovering beauty within fracture.

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Exhibitions & Journey|

2026
Still Flowing

Arts and Culture Salon on the 5th Floor of Taipei City Government Youth Bureau

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2025
Beyond Identity: Art Creation Exhibition

Taoyuan International Airport T1

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2025
Taiwan Contemporary Art Exhibition

Taoyuan International Airport T1

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2025
A Brilliant Fusion - Jewelry and Painting Art Exhibition

Ruxi Hotel

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2024
Solo Exhibition: Heart. Wave

Current Art Space

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2024
Art Spreads Love

Hong Art

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2024
"Hengcai Blooms" Solo Exhibition

SPACE TWO

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2023
Rotary Arts and Culture Exhibition

Rotary Club

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Behind-the-scenes shots of artist Kate Huang creating in her Afterglow Studio: exploring the healing everyday world of plaster and light.
Close-up of plaster art details from Afterglow Studio: Rich three-dimensional textures and the refraction of light and shadow.

Medium & Concept

Contemporary Taiwanese Artist Kate Huang's Creative Process: The Plaster Stacking Process Focused on Emotional Art Creation

My first encounter with plaster casts was actually during my work as a dentist.

Back then, I taught students how to make molds and cast molds.

For me, plaster is a very common and practical material.

It is used to replicate shapes and build structures.
Let those things that were originally invisible,
There is an understandable way to do it.

But later, I began to discover—
There is actually a very quiet and healing feeling when mixing plaster.

That process isn't about rushing to accomplish anything.

Just focus on letting it change slowly.

It also made me re-examine this material.


Plaster is soft before it dries.
It has high plasticity and can be adjusted and covered.
Put the parts that are not yet ready to be seen inside.


It is very sensitive to time and temperature.
It gradually takes shape during the process of change.


When it becomes hard and appears stable,
But it also carries a sense of vulnerability.


That state between stability and breakdown,
It's very much like emotions themselves.


And as it gradually settles down,
Those emotions, it seems, were left behind.


Later, I chose to use glass as the load-bearing material.


The reason is simple—I don't like being defined.


Glass allows light to pass through and also reflects it.
It prevents the work from remaining in a fixed form.


The same artwork, under different lighting and on different walls,
It will present a completely different atmosphere.


Sometimes what you see is not just the work itself,
It's not about your current emotions.

For me, creation is not about expressing a definite answer.
Instead, leave a space.


The plaster coating, and the transparency of glass,
One is a continuation, the other is a manifestation.


The changes between them are like emotions.
There is no fixed shape, nor is there a standard answer.


I don't really want my work to be defined.
There's no rush to make it understood.


What I care about most is—
What do you see when you stand in front of the artwork?

Preserving light within transparency, discovering beauty within fracture.

Afterglow Studio is where I find solace amidst the ever-changing tides of my soul.

A tranquil harbor opened up for myself.

Here, emotions are imprinted on the canvas, and vulnerability is caught by plaster.

This is a private creative space that is not open to the public.

The aim is to preserve the purest space for contemplation, allowing each piece to exist in silence.

They slowly grow their own life energy.

Taiwan

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