EXHIBITED:
A Field in the Heart - Solo Exhibition by Huang Ming-chang,Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, March 17 - June 17, 2012
Telling Details: Photorealism in Taiwan, 18th January-20thApril, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, 2014
Guess What? Hardcore Contemporary Art's Truly a WorldTreasure, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo,Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Hiroshima City Museumof Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, The National Museum ofModern Art, Kyoto, June, 2014-May, 2015ILLUSTRATEDA Field in the Heart - Solo Exhibition by Huang Ming-chang,Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, 2012,color illustrated, pp. 130-131
Guess What? Hardcore Contemporary Art's Truly a WorldTreasure, Japan, 2014, color illustrated, p.73

The green waters of the pond are guided forward by the winds of springtime; before my eyes is an endless sea of clouds and flourishing fields.

Herons white, a thousand dots of snow; they break free to fly into these painted screens.

“Rice Field”, Wei Zhuang (Tang dynasty).

The poem “Rice Field” by Tang poet Wei Zhuang (836 - 910) paints a fascinating image of the fields of harvest from the Tang dynasty in a short quatrain. The plump green stalks sway in the wind like waves, slowly extending until they converge with the sky, the view accented by a few white egrets gently flapping their way into the captivating scenery.

Taiwanese pastoral poet Huang Ming-Chang uses drawing as an emotional outlet. Though he writes poems and literature, he is burdened by a longing for home brought by paddies of rice plants swaying in the wind. Huang draws from childhood memories. This fixation with the good old days at home and the ever-flowing river of his memories has turned into an obsession that allows him to paint his canvases with utmost longing; the recreations in Huang’s realist paintings are not only raw presentations from the artist’s nostalgia, but also reflections upon the destruction of nature by modern society. From the countryside of Taitung to Taipei, from Taipei to Paris, then from Paris to Taiwan, Myanmar, or Bali, Huang’s pastoral works carefully illustrate scenes of rice paddies unique to the Austronesian, cleverly linking the views of his own island roots with the world.

In “A Field in the Heart”, the open fields of rice lay silent. As the light from the sunset warms the heart, the pines and shrubs in the image sway to and fro as if being caressed by the evening winds. So peaceful and quiet, yet also so full of vitality and images of fertility, this poetic picture has poured into it the artist’s most genuine emotions, among which he finds his solace. In the works of Huang Ming-Chang, realism takes on a new definition. His works are not just an objective interpretation of what he sees with his eyes; his subjective ideas seep through his work, adding sentiment to his realism. Such is the irreplaceable, indicative spirit of Huang Ming- Chang’s art.