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PAULiNA WoNG

Lives and works in California USA and Hong kong, China
www.paulinawong.com

I opened my first solo exhibition in the Fringe gallery ten years ago in October,
2001. I had just packed my stuff and returned to Hong kong at the end of my
eight year stay in California. I brought along with me my last works completed
from afar: the ten “Open Boxes”, the “Fill” series, and my self portrait. These
works formed the core of my first exhibit, “Boxes filled with Colors”. My next
works, “Double Boiler” and “My City”, reflect a personal transition from living
in the west to coming home and once more settling in Hong kong after an
eight year absence. As I reacquainted myself with this busy metropolis, I
developed a liking for minimalism and sought to limit my palette to plain
color field of primary colors (red, blue, yellow, black, and white). I do not
consider myself a feminist; yet I was somewhat irritated by the tradition
of male artists using the female body as their muse. In “Crooked Metal”,
aluminum pieces that caged the Blue Nude are deconstructed and then
reassembled in different patterns in an attempt to free the naked woman into
a life of her own. Around 2008, I began to explore the spatial arrangement
and relationship of shapes, forms, and colors in a two dimensional sphere.
The result was the “Assemblage Series” – its paintings vary from simple
diagonal color forms to maze – like canvas to complex composition. In my
latest series, “Bondage”, colors and shapes are brought into life as I convert
them into man and woman imageries with symbolic names. visual dialogue is
added among them. All in all, it is an attempt to touch the intrigue of human
relationships that are bonded in love. (December 2011)

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 spIN, 2012 OIL ON CANvAS 24X20 IN. | 61.5X51.5 CM.
ThREAD, 2012 OIL ON CANvAS 30X24 IN. | 76X61.5 CM.
 LANDsCApE, 2013 OIL ON CANvAS 60X47.5 IN.| 152X121 CM.

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