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...Wong always places herself in her paintings, calling this an outlet for both her pent-up emotions and what she is feeling at the time...
...Wong, whose work has already been exhibited in New York, Chicago and Korea, spoke about her life and career last Thursday at the Carpenter Center before an audience of students and art enthusiasts...
...Wong prefaced the discussion of her work by first describing her “brief” childhood, in which she was taught to “strive for very Western ideals and Western standards and a Western set of what was right and wrong, in terms of beauty and morality,” in the midst of an Eastern culture...
...Wong attributes the conflict and sense of duality pervasive in her work to this difficult period...
...common element in her newer works, Wong chooses to depict many replicas of her own figure in order to represent all of the layers of the self that can be explored. Rather than exclude the viewer from the artist, Wong’s technique manages to draw in the public and encourages them to empathize with her experiences through her work...