Structure and Imagery

Matthew Wong, Origin, watercolor on paper, 12 X 9 inches, 2018 Matthew Wong March 22–April 29, 2018 Opening reception: Thursday March 22, 6–8pm Karma 188 E 2nd Street New York, NY 10009 Karma is pleased to present Matthew Wong’s first one-person exhibition. Working with equal curiosity and confidence in oils and watercolors, Wong deploys a wide-ranging color, tonal, and mark-making vocabulary to delineate psychological and metaphysical spaces at once familiar and uncannily strange. The use of planar space, contrast between wet and dry, as well as the application of dots and rudimentary marks in Chinese ink painting have influenced Wong’s conception of painting as an activity for mark-making and color application.  The artist often employs seemingly contradictory modes side by side or one on top of the other. He allows for the simultaneity of a thick daub of orange with willowy strips of green, and the spaces they appear to delineate invite exploratio...

Matthew Wong, Untitled , 2015, ink and watercolor on paper, 16 x 20 in. Also of interest: http://matthewhk.net/index.php http://structureandimagery.blogspot.com/2013/11/artist-profile-matthew-wong.html http://structureandimagery.blogspot.com/2015/10/matthew-wong-hong-kong-visual-arts.html

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Matthew Wong photograph courtesy of the artist Matthew Wong was born in Toronto, Canada in 1984.  He received a BA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor before completing his MFA in Creative Media (Photography) at the City University of Hong Kong. Currently Wong lives and works in Hong Kong and Zhongshan, China. I first became aware of Wong's work in 2012/2013 and was immediately attracted by his expressive and moody blend of abstraction and figuration in service of a larger metaphor for memory and consciousness. "The better able to explore and project personal notions of form and beauty . . . . " Currently Matthew Wong's work may be seen at the 8th Annual Song Zhuang Art Fair in Beijing, October 31- November 10, 2013. The Lovers , 2013, oil on canvas, 23x19 in. Reunited , 2013, oil on canvas, 39x31 in. Bergman , 2013, oil on canvas, 39x31 in. Untitled , 2013, oil on canva...