by Ann Starr - The Other Paper, January 27, 2010
The Leah Wong paintings currently on display at the Sherrie Gallerie were painted on extended travels in China, the artist’s birthplace. When you step into the gallery, though, you’ll believe that she sojourned on the shores of the Gumdrop Sea in Candyland.
The canvases—glossy and gleaming with yellows, pinks, oranges and reds set against cool blues and greens—treat you to images of bathers in the ocean, lily-pad ponds, girls on swings, fireworks and birthday cakes. It’s beautiful.
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Leah Wong - Local and International Artist
interviewed by Barb Vogel, The Artist Intervew, Jan, 2010
Leah Wong’s new body of work includes unique observations of people partaking of life activities within vibrantly colored landscapes and seascapes. Leah Wong’s new paintings and installation can be seen at the Sherrie Gallery, 694 N. High St., from Jan. 17 through Feb 28.
Local photographer and artist Barbara Vogel talks with Leah her perspectives and her new artistic direction.
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http://www.theartistsinterview.com/2010/02/leah-wong-local-and-international.html
Leah Wong: A Cut Above
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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www.columbusalive.com/?sec=arts&story=alive/2007/1101/a-artwong.html
Close to Home
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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www.columbusdispatch.com/live/contentbe/dispatch/2006/03/05/20060305-D5-01.html
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