Paulina Wong

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Biography

My lifelong passion in art could be dated back to the sixties, when I was taking private classes by local artists including Ng Po-wan (1965-1970), and afterwards, Chen Hok-shu (1971-1973), who cultivated my interest in traditional Western art and equipped me with a store of painting techniques. After graduating at the University of Hong Kong in 1972, I served as a social worker, and later, administrator in the Hong Kong government for two decades.

Despite a long departure from the art world, art always has a place in my heart. It was, however, not until 1991, after immigrating to the United States, that I resumed my artistic endeavour. I pursue my studies in Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine, which gave me an opportunity to explore new dimensions and experiment with multi-media techniques. Exposure to contemporary visual art in the west has fine-tuned my perception, and expanded my visual horizons. Throughout the years, my style has evolved from realism to minimalism to conceptualism, and now, to abstract expressionism. No matter how far I go there is a colorful edge pertaining to my works, expressed in a kaleidoscope of forms and thoughtful compositions.


Portfolio:

Bondages series

Have you ever felt being ‘bonded’ in a relationship? My new series on ‘Bondage’ thematically touches upon the intriguing complexity of human relationships. The interplay of colors and forms create suggestive imageries that capture the tension between intimacy and distance, joy and pain, growth and struggle, suspense and relief, fantasy and disillusionment, in many of a relationship. Every piece tells a visual dialogue between two characters in their symbolic namesakes, taking viewers to explore the vast ocean of emotional experience loaded with the very essential sense of ‘bondage’, which is prettily disguised, and therefore more substantially manifested, in different forms.

Image Size : 91 x 91 cm, oil on canvas

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All oil on canvas.

Image size
Madonna : 91 x 91 cm
Thread :76 x 61 cm
Slide : 51 x 61 cm
Spin : 61 x 51 cm
Hold : 51 x 61 cm
Swing : 76 x 61 cm
Red : 152 x 23 cm (5 panels)
Shade : 51 x 61 cm