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Paulina Wong

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

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). This
process gave birth to the “Untitled”, “The
Leaf”, and “Eclipse. Ellipsis, Ellipse” series.
“Crooked Metal: Blue nude deconstructed”
was a personal challenge to deconstruct
Tom wesselmann’s Blue nude #19. 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
 thread, 2012 OIL ON CANvAS 30x24 IN. | 76x61 CM. latest series, “Bondage”, colors and shapes
SPin, 2012 OIL ON CANvAS 47.5x20 IN. | 61x51 CM. are brought into life as I convert them into
man and woman imageries with symbolic
names. visual dialogue is added among
I opened my first solo exhibition in the Fringe gallery ten years them. All in all, it is an attempt to touch the
ago in October, 2001. I had just packed my stuff and returned intrigue of human relationships that are
to Hong kong at the end of my eight year stay in California. bonded in love. (Sept 2011)
I brought along with me my last works completed from afar:

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