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Su-en Wong
Girl as Covergirl
Lecture
Art Gallery of Ontario
Opening: Wednesday, June 7, 2000, 6 - 6:30 pm
Lecture in the Ridley Member's Lounge, 7:30 pm
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Lecture presented in cooperation with Mercer Union and the Art Gallery
of Ontario: Present Tense, Contemporary Project Series
Exhibition on view in the Matina Chrones Gallery
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New York based artist Su-en Wong is featured
in the fifteenth exhibition of Present Tense, an ongoing series
of current work by Canadian and International artists. Su-en Wong's
paintings are self-portraits that explore the uneasy transitions between
childhood, adolescence, and maturity. Often expansive in scale, her
paintings on canvas, paper, and wood primarily feature a lone figure
isolated within a minimal field of pastel color. The works are imbued
with social and sexual stereotypes, which are used to explore the conflicting
positions of power and vulnerability within the artist's life as a young
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Su-en Wong was born in Singapore in
1973 and currently lives and works in New York. She received her M.F.A.
in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1997,
and recently finished studio residencies at the Marie Walsh Sharpe
Foundation, New York, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture,
Maine. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Stefan Stux Gallery,
New York (1999) and at the Chicago Cultural Center (1999), and is
currently exhibiting in the North American section of the Kwang Ju
International Biennale, Korea (2000).
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Image:
Su-en Wong
Bright-yellow Painting with Squatting Girl (detail), 1999
acrylic and pencil on panel, 54 x 80 inches
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