V. High school paintings (c. 1988)
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Wong began her career as a painter. Her earliest works, which date to her final two years of high school, recall the paintings of Chaïm Soutine and other Expressionist artists associated with the School of Paris. Flitting between figuration and abstraction, these sepia-toned compositions explore themes that would endure through the next four decades of Wong’s practice. Domestic spaces are reconfigured into sites of instability, while female figures struggle to find their voice amid restraint.
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Selected Works: Fragments and Experiments
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