In her exquisitely rendered
color pencil and acrylic self-portraits, Singapore-born artist
Su-en Wong explores the mysterious nature of transitioning
from childhood to adulthood.
Often repeating her self-portrait several times in one work, Wong positions
herself
in lush settings and gigantic color fields, sometimes nude and sometimes
in different
costumes. At once vulnerable and coy, assertive and shy, playful and
serious, each
portrait examines the fits and starts and conflicting paths that every
young girl travels
in her quest to define an individuated self in an often less-than-welcoming
adult world.
Su-en Wong
Born 1973 Singapore. Lives in New York,
New York.
Wong has had recent solo exhibitions at Shoshana Wayne Gallery in
Santa Monica, California (2003); Zolla/Lieberman Gallery in Chicago
(2003); Savage Gallery in Portland, Oregon (2003); and Deitch Projects
in New York (2002). Recent group exhibitions include Open House:
Working in Brooklyn at Brooklyn Museum of Art (2004); Women
on Women at White Box in New York (2003); Online at
Feigen Contemporary in New York (2003); Bootleg Identity at
Caren Golden Fine Art in New York (2003); and Peppermint at
Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, New York (2001).
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