Richard Tsao

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  RICHARD TSAO, Freeze, 2009, water-based mixed media on wood, 14 x 39 inches (35.6 x 99.1 cm)
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  RICHARD TSAO, Surge, 2010, water-based mixed media on canvas, 12 x 14 inches (30.5 x 35.6 cm)
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  RICHARD TSAO, Red Sea, 2010, water-based mixed media on wood, 18 x 48 inches (45.7 x 121.9 cm)
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  RICHARD TSAO, Avalanche, 2010, water-based mixed media on wood, 14 x 38 inches (35.6 x 96.5 cm)
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  RICHARD TSAO, Salty Sea, 2010, water-based mixed media on wood, 14 x 37 inches (35.6 x 94 cm)
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  RICHARD TSAO, Twin Peaks, 2010, water-based mixed media on canvas, 20 x 18 inches (50.8 x 45.7 cm)
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  RICHARD TSAO, Sun and Surf (diptych), 2010, water-based mixed media on canvas, 19 x 28 inches (48.3 x 71.1 cm)
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  RICHARD TSAO, Next Rain, 2010, water-based mixed media on wood, 13 1/2 x 36 inches (34.3 x 91.4 cm)
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  RICHARD TSAO, Soak, 2010, water-based mixed media on wood, 30 x 30 inches (76.2 x 76.2 cm)
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  RICHARD TSAO, Nam Wan, 2010, water-based mixed media on canvas, 15 x 10 1/2 inches (38.1 x 26.7 cm)
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  RICHARD TSAO, Shower, 2007, water-based mixed media on canvas, 17 1/2 x 13 inches (44.5 x 33 cm)
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  RICHARD TSAO, Lava, 2008, water-based mixed media on wood, 31 x 30 inches (78.7 x 76.2 cm)

Richard Tsao, originally from Thailand, lives and works in New York. He is known for using a process oriented, labor intensive approach and particular aesthetic of beauty in creating his paintings and works on paper.

With Tsao's recent works on canvas and wood, his unrestrained use of color seems to appropriately present itself in just the right balance. He manipulates pure pigment with an alchemist's instincts in an approach that leaves his work vibrantly colored. With pigment thoroughly encrusting the canvas or wood supports and with sections of the encrustations sticking out well beyond the supports’ edges, Tsao’s works are less painted than accumulated—they may be years in the making.