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Description: Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances
BOOKMatthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances
Vivian Li (Editor)
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-100089
Self-taught artist Matthew Wong (1984–2019) painted intimate landscapes that recall Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, seventeenth-century Qing period ink painting, and contemporary artists he admired, including Philip Guston (1913–1980), Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929), Joan Mitchell (1925–1992), and Bob Thompson (1937–1966). Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances offers the first formal survey of Wong’s six-year painting career that began in Hong Kong and matured in Canada. It includes new scholarship with a focus on his process and commitment to conversation, experimentation, and connection. Through his unique visual language, Wong fostered dialogue between not only himself and other artists, but other artists and each other. The five essays are lavishly illustrated with approximately 70 of Wong’s paintings and include a selection of his writings.

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Author
Vivian Li (Editor)
PublisherDallas Museum of Art
Print publication date October 2022 (out of print)
Print ISBN 9780300266863
EISBN 9780300282184
Copyright© 2022 by Dallas Museum of Art
Illustrations 124
Print Status out of print
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List of illustrations

  • Screenshots of Matthew Wong’s Instagram Story
  • Untitled
  • Untitled self-portrait
  • View of Christopher Wool’s installation at ILLUMInations
  • Unknown Pleasures #1
  • Unknown Pleasures #8
  • Untitled #2
  • Sale Neige
  • Green Mist
  • Hofsos 2
  • Fish and Rocks
  • A Dream
  • Reflection
  • The Beginning
  • Landscape at Collioure
  • Lunar Eclipse
  • Mermaid
  • Tattooed Bather
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Installation view of "Outside" at Karma’s temporary gallery, in Amagansett, Long Island
  • The West, verso, in normal light
  • The West, verso, infrared image
  • Landscape with Mother and Child, in regular light
  • Landscape with Mother and Child, X-radiograph
  • Landscape with Mother and Child, earlier composition
  • Landscape with Mother and Child, photomicrograph taken at 20x magnification
  • Landscape with Mother and Child, detail of brushstrokes
  • The West, photomicrograph taken at 20x magnification
  • Illumination, photomicrograph taken at 20x magnification
  • Landscape with Mother and Child, photomicrograph taken at 20x magnification
  • Illumination, photomicrograph taken at 20x magnification
  • Unknown Pleasures, #3
  • Unknown Pleasures, #6
  • Unknown Pleasures, #7
  • Sunrise at Mount Hua
  • Garden with a Cosmic Vase
  • Ghost Festival
  • The Performance
  • Autumn
  • Alignment (Park)
  • Untitled
  • Still from the film Ivan's Childhood
  • Night 3
  • Still from the film Mirror
  • 5:00 PM
  • Still from the film Stalker
  • Still from the film Mirror
  • Mirage
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Heaven and Earth
  • Gone Till November
  • Snowfall
  • A Poet's World
  • River at Dusk
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • The Long Way Home
  • Sanctuary
  • Banishment from the Garden
  • Untitled
  • The Searchers
  • Contemplating the Iceberg
  • The Desert
  • The Human Cloud
  • Distance
  • The Wish
  • Solitaire
  • Children of a Primordial Land
  • The Emperor's Garden
  • Landscape of the Longing
  • Where Did the Time Go?
  • Youth
  • Landscape with Mother and Child
  • Illumination
  • The Kingdom
  • Old Town
  • Odyssey
  • Origin
  • The Reader
  • White Wave
  • The West
  • The Watcher
  • So Much Depends. . .
  • Untitled
  • Valley for Picabia
  • The Bright Winding Path
  • The River
  • Blue Night
  • Tracks in the Blue Forest
  • Blue Room
  • The Cat's Tail
  • Night 4
  • Day 4
  • Coming of Age Landscape
  • The Realm of Appearances
  • Once Upon a Time in the West
  • Somewhere
  • Blue Rain
  • River at Night
  • The Edge
  • Morning Mist
  • Landscape with Ella (For John Cheim)
  • New Moon (After John Beerman)
  • Dark Reverie
  • Path to the Sea
  • A Walk by the Sea
  • A Walk by the Sea
  • Unknown Pleasures
  • See You On the Other Side
  • Untitled photograph (Hong Kong)
  • Untitled photograph (Hong Kong)
  • Untitled photograph (Hong Kong)
  • Untitled photograph (Hong Kong)
  • Matthew Wong painting in his studio in Cuiheng, Zhongshan, Guangdong Province
  • Installation view of "Matthew Wong: Chapter One" at the Cuiheng Art Museum in Zhongshan
  • Etel Adnan, White Cube, London
  • Entrance to Matthew Wong's "Pulse of the Land" exhibition at the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre
  • Matthew Wong attending artist talk at the "Insomnia exhibition," Pelham, New York
  • Installation view of "Matthew Wong" at Karma, New York
  • Installation view of Matthew Wong's "Day by Night" at Massimo De Carlo in Hong Kong
  • Installation view of Matthew Wong's "Blue" at Karma, New York
  • Installation view of "Matthew Wong: Footprints in the Wind, Ink Drawings 2013–2017" at Cheim & Read, New York
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Contents
Vivian Li (Editor)
Description: Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances
Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances
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Vivian Li (Editor)
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Director’s Foreword
Agustín Arteaga
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Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances
In 2017, the Dallas Museum of Art became the first and only museum to acquire Matthew Wong’s work during his lifetime. The painting, The West, exhibits many hallmarks of Wong’s distinctive style: the sensorial use of nonmimetic color, the vast landscape, the lone figure. It conveys the artist’s singular approach to the world, one that finds...
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Agustín Arteaga
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The Realm of Appearances: The Abstract Reality of Matthew Wong
Vivian Li
Description: Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances
Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances
When Matthew Wong died at the young age of thirty-five, it left his artworks alone to attest to his indelible existence and significance. In his characteristically decisive manner, before his death Wong deleted his active social media presence on Instagram, which he had used to...
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Vivian Li (Editor)
PublisherDallas Museum of Art
Copyright© 2022 by Dallas Museum of Art
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Chapter subject tags:Wong, Matthew, 1984-2019Chinese Canadian artists--20th centuryAbstract Expressionism--United StatesArts--Chinese influencesStreet photography--21st centuryPainting, Abstract--21st centuryLandscape painting--21st centuryArt, Modern--21st century

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Inside/Outside: Matthew Higgs on the Legacy of Matthew Wong
Matthew Higgs and Vivian Li
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Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances
Vivian Li As Director and Chief Curator of White Columns, New York City’s longest running alternative art space, you were an early champion of Matthew Wong’s work in 2016. That was a pivotal time in his life when he had just moved back to Canada from Hong Kong. Could you talk about how you knew about Matthew and his art?
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Vivian Li (Editor)
PublisherDallas Museum of Art
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Chapter subject tags:Wong, Matthew, 1984-2019Chinese Canadian artists--20th centuryArts--Chinese influencesPainting, Abstract--21st centuryLandscape painting--21st centuryArt, Modern--21st century

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What the Paint Does: A Technical Examination of Matthew Wong’s Approach to Painting
Laura Eva Hartman
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Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances
This excerpt from a 2013 interview in Studio Critical offers us a glimpse into how Matthew Wong began his journey toward learning to draw and paint. In response to questions about his working methods, Wong is candid about his process and his relationship with materials. He explains that his painting technique can be described as intuitive, pushing and pulling paint across a surface, feeling...
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Vivian Li (Editor)
PublisherDallas Museum of Art
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Chapter subject tags:Wong, Matthew, 1984-2019Chinese Canadian artists--20th centuryPainting, Abstract--21st centuryLandscape painting--21st centuryPainting--Technique

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Finding a Place in the World: Matthew Wong’s Exploration of Ink
Lesley Ma
Description: Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances
Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances
Matthew Wong’s artistic breakthrough in 2018 following his solo exhibition at Karma gallery in New York showed how paintings fluent in both Chinese and Euro-American art histories could look. The exhibition felt historic in Wong’s efforts to be recognized by arguably the toughest crowd in contemporary art....
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Vivian Li (Editor)
PublisherDallas Museum of Art
Copyright© 2022 by Dallas Museum of Art
Related print edition pages: pp.37-43
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Chapter subject tags:Wong, Matthew, 1984-2019Chinese Canadian artists--20th centuryArts--Chinese influencesPainting, Abstract--21st centuryLandscape painting--21st century

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“We Need a Mirror”: The Poetic Cinema of Matthew Wong
Hilde Nelson
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Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances
Wonder teems through the shimmering oranges and ribbons of blue that make up Matthew Wong’s expansive dream of the American West. Once Upon a Time in the West, a gouache of 2018, offers a lush desert landscape, one replete with grasses and flowers of pink and yellow (cat. 49). A river slices through the composition, oscillating the picture...
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Vivian Li (Editor)
PublisherDallas Museum of Art
Copyright© 2022 by Dallas Museum of Art
Related print edition pages: pp.45-51
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Chapter subject tags:Wong, Matthew, 1984-2019Chinese Canadian artists--20th centuryMotion pictures, RussianLandscape painting--21st century

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Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances
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Vivian Li (Editor)
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Selected Writings by Matthew Wong
Vivian Li (Editor)
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Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances
Painting was just one form of expression that fascinated Matthew Wong. A poet, photographer, and art critic before becoming a painter, Wong regularly attended poetry clubs and contributed to art and literary journals in the late 2000s and the early 2010s when he lived in Hong Kong. Alongside his painting practice, Wong enthusiastically shared his ideas through...
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Matthew Wong: A Chronology
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Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances
Matthew Wong: A Chronology
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