Flip Book Painting

I wrapped canvas around a bust I made of the subject and painted it over the bust with oil, then unwrapped the painting. 

If Rembrandt Had Found Cubism

A recurring dream about American midwestern landscape. 

The House with the Red Roof 

A tiny multi-level museum on the word "cricket" with a built in bookshelf and a reading stand, a rotatory display of antique cricket cages and other memorabilia. 


Cricket

The work is a response to the aesthetic remixing brought up by Chinese economic reform in the past two decades. Employing a wide range of materials, production and reproduction methods, Kwong proposes how cross-cultural translation does not always constitute a loss in fidelity; instead, meaning and cultural capital are obtained through the act of repurposing. Kwong explores representations of culture through material artifacts, crafts, and metaphors. The work on view consists of a resin wicker-made fountain, varies sculptures, and a 50 meters long painting reproduction. The painting depicts the traditional Western symbols for time and death in Chinese aesthetic form. It provokes the feeling and thoughts of afterlife in viewers, and it also reflects on our human societal effort of achieving immortality through capitalism. Together, the installation unravels the multiple meanings and associations embedded in familiar signs and symbols. The artist shows the possibility of visual language as well as its readymade, arbitrary, and troubling connections with spoken language.

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