Color Pause: A Contemporary Painting and Ceramic Sculpture Show in Hong Kong

HOW DEPT @K11, Hong Kong
A Contemporary Painting and Ceramic Sculpture Show in Hong Kong
December 2025 – February 2026

I move between painting and sculpture the same way I move between memory and presence.

There is no hierarchy in my practice.
Canvas, clay, texture, form — they speak to one another.

Color Pause was born from this movement.

Presented at HOW DEPT K11 from December 2025 to February 2026, this show marked a meaningful return to Hong Kong. Bringing this body of work back felt like walking through my own language in the place where it first began. This city is layered, compressed, fast. I grew up inside that rhythm.

As a contemporary artist working between abstract painting and ceramic sculpture, my practice responds to that intensity — not by resisting it loudly, but by softening it.

This show became an intentional slowing down.

Color as Emotional Structure

Color is the first breath of the work.

Before an object forms, before clay holds weight, before a sculptural vessel rests on a table — there is color as sensation.

In the abstract paintings, rounded shapes and layered color fields hold tension through balance. Pink meets deep brown. Yellow presses gently against blue. Negative space creates room to breathe.

These works are not illustrations.
They are emotional structures built through color and form.

When Painting Moves Into Sculpture

In my ceramic sculptures and sculptural vessels, the same visual language enters physical space.

A painted curve becomes a handle.
A color block gains weight.
A dot becomes texture you can touch.

Some works resemble functional ceramics — cups, vessels, vases — yet they sit between utility and sculpture. I am drawn to that in-between space where object becomes presence.

Texture remains visible. The clay body is not hidden. Glaze interrupts surface. Smooth meets porous. Control meets unpredictability.

The abstract paintings and ceramic sculptures are not separate categories — they are one continuous body of work unfolding across wall and table.

A Hong Kong Art Show Rooted in Slowness

Presented at HOW Café K11, this Hong Kong art show introduced a quieter rhythm into an everyday environment.

Wall works, ceramic forms, sculptural vessels, and intimate figurative sculptures created a dialogue between color, weight, and stillness.

In a city known for speed and density, Color Pause explores how contemporary art — through abstract painting and ceramic sculpture — can recalibrate time and invite presence.

Returning Home

Bringing this contemporary painting and ceramic sculpture show back to Hong Kong was not about nostalgia.

It was about recognition.

The child who once drew in bold colors.
The adult who now understands restraint.
The city that shaped my visual language.

Color Pause reflects my ongoing practice as a contemporary artist moving fluidly between painting and sculpture — using abstract form, ceramic vessels, and color to slow perception and hold wonder.

Thank you to Fung and the HOW DEPT K11 team for creating space for this show in Hong Kong.

x Carrie

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