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GARY
WONG
GARY WONG is a profoundly confounding figure of monastic ubiquity
with a penchant for character-based performance-art and Blues music. His life
and his artwork are indelibly fused into a sort of performance of consciousness
said to be “about jazz and baseball,” which nevertheless finds physical
expression in exciting expressionistic collage, painting, photographs, and
drawings. Wong like many of the Locos is assertively a perspectival exemplar
more than a producer of art objects – but one who nevertheless makes
gorgeous images of saturated, rough-handed elegance, and objects of visceral
impact, often incorporating the symbols and signs of outsider, transnational
identity into his program. Language, presence, and sound are important
to Wong, for whom context and attention are the primary mediums of the
esoteric dimensions of his practice, frequently deployed in support or service
of colleagues and collaborators.
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