JACQUELYN WONG
About the Artist / Photographer
New York City native Jacquelyn Wong has been drawing and taking photographs since childhood. Her formal arts education in printmaking and photography began at Colgate University and continued at the MFA program at Pratt Institute.
Alarmed by the growing destruction and degradation of the environment, Jacquelyn began keenly observing intimate landscapes of the natural world. During visits to the Maine coast and later in walks around New York she began collecting and photographing small elements of nature; a broken twig, a rock, a leaf, a spiky seedpod.
These images of mundane, commonplace objects have become the catalyst for further explorations in drawing and painting. By using the visual languages of line, color and texture she pushes and redefines photographic limits. The boundaries of what we traditionally consider separate media are stretched, extended and blurred, shifting our perception of the original entities and the world in which they exist. This invitation to experience the objects in new ways leads us to explore and reconsider our own perception of them. Her work beckons us on a journey that transforms old perception with fresh insight of worlds without and within.
In all her work, Jacquelyn Wong continues to examine the intersection of our levels of consciousness. Accessing the information streaming in from the world around us, and a sense of the deeper, inner, intuitive self she engages and challenges us with her distinctly focused body of work.
© Jacquelyn S. Wong 2015