{"id":545,"date":"2021-04-15T08:26:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T00:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=545"},"modified":"2021-04-13T23:31:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T15:31:01","slug":"matthew-wong-ink-works-never-before-exhibited-will-alight-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/matthew-wong-ink-works-never-before-exhibited-will-alight-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Wong Ink Works, Never Before Exhibited, Will Alight in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the artist Matthew Wong was just starting his painting practice, in 2013, he said in an interview that he had no fixed schedule for going about his work\u2014with one exception. \u201cThe only thing that takes place at the same time every day is when I get out of bed, I have to do an ink drawing before doing anything else, such as brushing my teeth or eating,\u201d Wong\u00a0told the website<\/a>\u00a0Studio Critical<\/em>. He sometimes experimented in a bathroom at his family\u2019s Hong Kong home,\u00a0he said later<\/a>, \u201crandomly pouring ink onto pages\u2014smashing them together\u2014hoping something interesting was going to come out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wong kept making inventive ink drawings in the ensuing years, but it was his\u00a0luminous oil paintings<\/a>\u2014vibrant, mysterious, melancholy landscapes\u2014that would win him attention, and make him one of the signal artists of the decade. (Collectors now\u00a0compete fiercely<\/a>\u00a0for them.) By the time Wong\u00a0died in 2019<\/a>, at 35, by suicide, he had created some 1,000 paintings and drawings. (His New York gallery,\u00a0Karma<\/a>, is readying a catalogue raisonn\u00e9.) Only a fraction of that material has been seen publicly, and his ink works remain little known. However, that may be about to change.<\/p>\n

On May 5, Cheim & Read will open an exhibition focused on Wong\u2019s efforts in that unforgiving medium\u2014just ink, water, and rice paper\u2014at its Chelsea gallery, which it\u00a0shuttered in 2019<\/a>\u00a0and leased out, moving to the Upper East Side. \u201cMatthew Wong: Footprints in the Wind, Ink Drawings 2013\u20132017\u201d includes 24 pieces that have never before been exhibited. It\u2019s a collaboration with the Matthew Wong Foundation, a nonprofit founded by the Toronto-born artist\u2019s parents, Monita and Raymond Wong, to preserve his legacy and pursue philanthropic work. Its mission is currently being finalized.<\/p>\n

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\"MatthewMatthew Wong, Untitled<\/em>, 2015. Ink on rice paper, 26 5\/8 x 21 3\/4 in.<\/span>\u00a92021 MATTHEW WONG FOUNDATION \/ ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK. PHOTOGRAPHY: ALEX YUDZON \/\u00a0CHEIM & READ<\/a>, NEW YORK<\/cite><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Wong famously honed his artistic approach in libraries and online\u2014he maintained\u00a0a blog<\/a>, where he posted photos of some of the drawings in the upcoming show, and he liked to talk art on Facebook. That\u2019s how John Cheim (Cheim & Read\u2019s cofounder) first got to know him. \u201cIn 2015, Matthew and his mother Monita came to visit me in New York for the first time and brought along a tube of large black ink drawings,\u201d Cheim said in an email. \u201cMatthew was a striking presence\u2014tall, handsome, a shock of black hair and large black eyeglasses, all carefully considered. I found the ink drawings to be singular, intense.\u201d He bought one from the unknown artist, and they kept their conversations going.<\/p>\n

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Matthew Wong,\u00a0Winter Wind<\/em>, 2016. Ink on rice paper, 31 3\/4 x 27 1\/8 in.<\/span>\u00a9 2021 MATTHEW WONG FOUNDATION \/ ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK. PHOTOGRAPHY: ALEX YUDZON \/ CHEIM & READ, NEW YORK<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

As with Wong\u2019s alluring oils, his ink works invite comparisons to some giant names while still being unmistakably his own. They have the swirling energy of a Charles Burchfield, the dense, hypnotic patterning of a Yayoi Kusama, and the uncanny eeriness of a Ralph Albert Blakelock. Without the presence of color, they help reveal how Wong built up his beguiling canvases. In\u00a0The Watcher<\/em>\u00a0(2017), hundreds of quick, short lines radiate from a giant sun as an enigmatic bird perches atop a rock, one eye staring out of the picture. In an untitled 2015 forest scene, at least three figures may or may not be looming amid a virtuosic array of diverse marks. There is always a lot to take in.<\/p>\n

Last year, Wong\u2019s parents gave\u00a0a sprawling ink 2016 work<\/a>\u2014more than six feet tall (and exhilarating even as a tiny digital image)\u2014to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Suggesting a free-floating world within another world, it is potently surreal, and yet tender and intimate in the way it emerges from just simple brushstrokes: black liquid on white paper. \u201cIt is as if you can feel the particles in the air,\u201d Cheim said of Wong\u2019s ink works. \u201cThe space between the interior and the exterior dissolves\u2014a kind of psychological pantheism presents itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

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