Artist field note

Matthew Wong

A short career; a remarkably complete pictorial world.

See You on the Other Side by Matthew Wong
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05 / 05

See You on the Other Side

2019

A tiny figure sits separated from a distant house by a broad gulf of pale space. Nearness and impossibility occupy the same view.

The five in one idea

Wong used landscape less as a record of place than as an emotional construction. Beauty and loneliness can occupy the same path.