Richard Tsao at Art Projects International
May 01, 2011Art in America
Before Richard Tsao considers a painting ready to leave his studio, he takes it through a process that is not unlike nature’s millennial buildup of sediment to form solid rock mass. However, Tsao’s color-saturated, highly textured pieces on wood or canvas—accretions… Read More 
Thom Hall Talk – Richard Tsao
February 07, 2011Arkansas Times
Hall touched on the Arts Center’s significant collections... Read More
Bangkok Report: In the New Siam - Richard Tsao
June 01, 2010Art in America
Richard Tsao, long based in New York but closely linked to his Thai homeland, creates thickly layered, encrusted canvases distantly influenced by Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting but with a palette born in the flower market of Bangkok... Read More
Where I Work: Richard Tsao
November 01, 2009Art Asia Pacific
Tsao’s methods—spontaneous action, momentary deliberation and prolonged incubation—mean that any given work gestates for up to three years before the artist deems it complete... Having finally achieved a certain compositional “tension”—the planes of pink, blue, white,… Read More
Art in America Review - Richard Tsao
October 01, 2005Art in America
The surface of Tsao’s paintings are rich with water-based pigment, their skins variously eroded and elsewhere built up with marble dust and the matte medium he uses as a binder. As the medium extends the integrity of the pigment, he manipulates it to achieve substrata… Read More
Art AsiaPacific Review - Richard Tsao
September 01, 2004Art AsiaPacific
Each canvas presents a surface of densely encrusted color, comprised of dozens of layers of paint that evoke tectonic plates taking shape as they drift across a planet's surface. Flecks of pigment emerge like faint starts that at first glance register on one's retina… Read More
Art in America Review - Richard Tsao
March 01, 1999Art in America
Paint was poured, channeled, laid wet on wet, dried, scraped, blotted, bruised and flayed. The resulting surfaces are wrinkled, folded and torn; edges are uneven, with the paint extending beyond the support. The emerging configurations were frequently appraised,… Read More
Lushly Layered Abstraction - Richard Tsao
August 11, 1995The New York Times
Can the kind of painting Richard Tsao is doing—chromatically opulent, process-intensive abstraction—have anything fresh to yield? The answer is yes on the evidence of this show, the first New York solo by an artist born in Thailand and educated in the United States.… Read More
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