By Tracy Zollinger Turner - Columbus Alive, November 1, 2007
Leah Wong used to paint figurative landscapes in oil—literal visions of her Northeast China homeland. But when she came to the United States, the bend of its trees and the shapes of its cities felt too foreign to capture.
"I got a little distorted when I came to the U.S.," she laughed, scanning her work on the walls of Sherrie Gallerie with a quick spin on her heel. "Everything changed. My thinking changed, the landscape changed."
Among dozens of her more recent canvases, on view at the gallery through this month's Gallery Hop, there are marks, shapes and wild creatures that suggest particular items and beings from the material world, but they would be hard to pin down with labels. They could be gigantic bird-bears sauntering through the bustling city, or catfish-pigs swimming under a sky with a hundred suns.
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By Jacquline Hall - Columbus Dispatch, March 5, 2006
Leah Wong is represented by whimsical and charming imagery. A native of China, where she studied art and painting, she completed a master?s of fine arts at Ohio University in Athens. Her work merges Western and Asian cultures.
She has adapted the Chinese tradition of paper-cut images to her paintings, which are collages of delicately cut paper forms applied in multiple layers upon gesso ground and painted with acrylic. ......
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