By Matthew Morowitz “What A Treat” 2010, encaustic and mixed media on panel. Cecile Chong is a mixed media artist whose work focuses on the processes of acculturation and the construction of individual identity. Chong, who was born in Ecuador of Chinese parents and currently lives in Brooklyn, has exhibited her work throughout North and […]
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Christine Wong Yap: Irrational Exuberance Flags
September 14, 2012 – 2:15 am
By Matthew Morowitz “Positive Signs #2” Christine Wong Yap is an interdisciplinary artist who explores optimism and pessimism in her art. Working in installations, sculptures, multiples, and work on paper, Yap endeavors to examine how mundane materials or situations can give rise to irrational expectations, emotions, and experiences. She is influenced by conceptual strategies, phenomenology, […]