Email Page You must be logged in to send emails   Email Password Forgot your password? If you don't have a login yet, it's easy and fast to create one. Just click below. Close Window Add To Tour del.icio.us Facebook Digg Print Page

Su-en Wong 2007

November 8, 2007- December 22, 2007

Reception: November 8, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Su-en Wong

Danese

535 W 24th St

The exhibition consists of fourteen large-scale graphite drawings on paper that, like Su-en Wong’s paintings, demonstrate a rare technical virtuosity and a meticulous attention to detail. The works continue Wong’s investigation of the “self” within complex worlds that embrace contradiction as a condition of existence – eroticism and innocence, humor and pathos, the individual and everywoman, fantasy and reality.

In her work, Su-en Wong stages an elaborate and personal theater of the self that performs and challenges notions of identity formation via the conventional channels of nationality, race, gender, adolescence, age, costume, and sexuality. The spaces of her drawings allude to a stage set in their suggestive incompleteness; the flatness of the bare support is activated by select prop-like spatial elements or decorative marginalia that imply an only partially depicted fairytale scene.... The exuberant playfulness and humor readily apparent is also the sugar-coating of a more bitter pill. Alternately desirable and disturbing, gentle and jarring, universal traits and shared human impulses are laid bare. Wong speaks critically to the uncanny that resonates through forms of fantasy and folly.

Born in Singapore in 1973, Wong came to the United States at the age of sixteen. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute Chicago. She has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Canada, including a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas. Wong lives and works in New York City.

Books and DVDs related to artists in this show

Location   Gallery Danese Address 535 W 24th St, 6th Fl New York (Chelsea) NY, 10011 United States Phone 212-223-2227 Fax 212-605-1016 Hours Tue-Sat 10-6 Nearby: All 5 galleries at 535 W 24th St

© 2005-2008 chelseaartgalleries.com The information on this page is provided "as is", and might be incorrect, incomplete and/or out of date. The site owner makes no representation as to the accuracy of the information or its suitability for any purpose. The owner disclaims any liability for errors that may be contained therein. sitemap