Leah Wong
Rethink
Leah Wong, Sky and Sea, ink acrylic, hand-cut Tyvek paper, 30 x 48 inches
Leah Wong, The Sky is on Fire, ink acrylic, hand-cut Tyvek paper, 51 x 48 inches
Leah Wong, Punctuations, ink acrylic, hand-cut Tyvek paper, 60 x 60 inches
Leah Wong, Green Edge, ink acrylic, hand-cut Tyvek paper, 29 x 29 inches
Leah Wong, No Missing Space, ink acrylic, hand-cut Tyvek paper, 41 x 48 inches
Leah Wong, Connections, ink acrylic, hand-cut Tyvek paper, 35 x 48 inches
Leah Wong, Moving to the Cloud, ink acrylic, hand-cut Tyvek paper, 46 x 60 inches
Leah Wong, Division of Time, ink acrylic, hand-cut Tyvek paper, 41 x 32 inches
Leah Wong, Ronald, ink, acrylic on paper, hand-cut paper, 10 x 10 inches
Leah Wong, Savannah, ink, acrylic on paper, hand-cut paper, 10 x 10 inches
Leah Wong, Lynn, ink, acrylic on paper, hand-cut paper, 10 x 10 inches
Leah Wong, Matt, ink, acrylic on paper, hand-cut paper, 10 x 10 inches
Leah Wong, Charles, ink, acrylic on paper, hand-cut paper, 10 x 10 inches
Leah Wong, Moment of Focus #2, ink acrylic, hand-cut Tyvek paper, 20 x 20, inches
Leah Wong, Moment of Focus #1, ink acrylic, hand-cut Tyvek paper, 20 x 20, inches
Leah Wong, Between Dream and Memory 4, unique etching, 20x16 inches framed
Leah Wong, Between Dream and Memory 1, unique etching, 20x16 inches framed
Leah Wong, Between Dream and Memory 3, unique etching, 20x16 inches framed
Leah Wong, Between Dream and Memory 2, unique etching, 20x16 inches framed
Leah Wong, Between Dream and Memory 5, unique etching, 20x16 inches framed
Leah Wong, Between Dream and Memory 6, unique etching, 20x16 inches framed
Leah Wong, Stay Like This, ink, acrylic, hand-cut Tyvek paper, 16.5x16.5 inches, SOLD
Leah Wong, All That Potential 1, ink, acrylic, hand-cut Tyvek paper, 10x10 inches
Leah Wong, All That Potential 2, ink, acrylic, hand-cut Tyvek paper, 10x10 inches
Leah Wong, All That Potential 3, ink, acrylic, hand-cut Tyvek paper, 10x10 inches
Leah Wong, All That Potential 4, ink, acrylic, hand-cut Tyvek paper, 10x10 inches
Leah Wong, River's Edge 1, ink, acrylic, hand-cut Tyvek paper, 14.75x14.75 inches
Leah Wong, River's Edge 2, ink, acrylic, hand-cut Tyvek paper, 14.75x14.75 inches
Leah Wong, River's Edge 3, ink, acrylic, hand-cut Tyvek paper, 14.75x14.75 inches
Leah Wong, River's Edge 4, ink, acrylic, hand-cut Tyvek paper, 14.75x14.75 inches
artist info
Born in Qingdao, China, Leah received her BFA in oil painting from the China Academy of Arts in Hangzhou, China and earned her MFA in painting from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. The Asian Art Archive in Hong Kong has documented Leah's involvement in China’s contemporary art movement. Her works are exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries and museums including The Power Station of Art in Shanghai and MoCA Shanghai. Her paintings, paper cutouts and installations are found in many public and private collections.
"In an age when information flashes relentlessly past our eyes, I have felt the need to pause and rethink our world in my work. I have created two related bodies of work for this exhibition. In making these works, I have rethought my artistic perspectives on the natural environment, culture, and human relationships. My paper cut-out concept and methods have evolved from the traditional paper-cuts that I grew up with in China. I explore paper-cutting, painting and drawing, mapping various views of landscape as seen through the mirrored reflections in rivers and lakes. Different from traditional Asian and Western landscape perspectives, I’m interested in perspectives reflected in the water that compress surrounding landscapes. In a single cut-out, these landscapes tie the sky and everything in-between, including unseen movements, to the earth. Lighting casts shadows to create layers of lines and shapes that trans- form the dimensionality and depth of the cut-out views. Recently, I began to work on figures and paint mono-chromatic portraits. I positioned each portrait behind a cut-out screen to create a window that invites close-up viewing. My intention is to leave space for dialogue, imagination and questions through each visual experience." - Leah Wong