Lindsey Harald-Wong

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CV + Exhibition History

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Recent Exhibition:

October 19 - November 23, 2024.

limina, lumina,,

Lindsey Harald-Wong, Narong Tintamusik, Catherine Menard, Daniel Schubert, October Anderson, Mayolo Figueroa, Kento Saisho

Location: Reisig and Taylor Contemporary (4478 W Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, 90016).

Type: Group Exhibition.

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Bio

Lindsey Harald-Wong (born: Denver, Colorado, United States) is an artist based in Malaysia, where she currently lives and works. She was formerly on the faculty of Pratt Institute and at Parsons School of Design in New York, where she taught drawing. She earned an M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York. Harald-Wong has also studied at the New York Studio School of Painting and Drawing.

Her earlier work begins at the level of perception, directly drawing from light and space and working between the limits of vision and abstraction. These earlier works were often produced around still-life imagery (such as flowers, especially orchids). Eventually, beginning in the early 2000s, around the time of the work Small Cosmos (2005) included in a group exhibition at Reisig and Taylor Contemporary (Los Angeles: Fall 2024), her work starts to shift to more immediate encounters with the surface (paper, canvas) itself—and with mark-making itself—through a generative practice produced at its own pace, in response to its own processes. (Small Cosmos presents an intermediary or transitional moment between her work with perception and the works driven by abstraction.)

Living in Malaysia, Harald-Wong works in relative isolation from Western economic and social contexts of contemporary art. But within this isolation she has cultivated a practice of working-through a deep time that uniquely evolves through its own language. A cryptic, but immediate, mode of expression made of frenetic marks and webbed movements that have patiently, meditatively, morphed over many years of working in her own terms.

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