Malaysian artist continues the legacy of Chinese porcelain

KUALA LUMPUR — From her studio tucked away in a quiet corner in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian artist Alice Chang carefully blends a color palette of various shades of white and blue, meticulously using them to form intricate paintings of different motifs.

At first glance, one might find these pieces to be very similar to traditional Chinese porcelain. And they would be right.

Chang, inspired by porcelain artists of centuries past, held her fifth solo exhibition, Me, Then Blue, which reinterprets the traditional Chinese style for modern audiences. She is specifically into the blue-and-white porcelain wares from Jingdezhen — China's famed porcelain capital during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).