Postcards / Matthew Wong ; with texts by Henri Cole, Winnie Wong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wong, Matthew, 1984-2019, artist, author.

Cole, Henri, author.

Wong, Winnie, 1978- author.

Contributor:

Karma (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wong, Matthew, 1984-2019--Exhibitions.

Wong, Matthew.

Painting--21st century--Exhibitions.

Painting.

Gouache painting--21st century--Exhibitions.

Gouache painting.

Painters--Canada--21st century.

Painters.

Canada.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

50 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Other Title:

Matthew Wong : Postcards

Place of Publication:

New York : Karma, [2020]

Summary:

This fully illustrated volume collects Matthew Wong's small-scale postcard paintings made during the last year of his life in 2019. As Winnie Wong writes in her newly commissioned essay for the book, "Art critics have observed that Matthew Wong's landscapes are 'uncannily familiar,' and they do prompt viewers to search our own memories, but he almost never titled them as places. Instead, he consistently named them as moments in time: midnight, 5:00am, dawn, daybreak, 12:30am, Autumn, Winter, the first snow, the gloaming, the moon rise ... For the postcard is a genre that seems to consciously elude a sense of stable locus, yet marks the times of our lives when we tried to grasp it. Matthew Wong painted at home, on the road, and in the studio. He spoke of the compulsion to finish each of his paintings in a single sitting, and talked of them always as process, rather than subject matter. Standing before paintings he finished years ago, he could recall every stroke and mark as if he had placed them just moments before.

Notes:

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at ARCH, Athens, Greece, Sept. 10-Dec. 11, 2020.

Edition of 3000.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781949172508

1949172503

OCLC:

1227312063