New Monotypes

Recent monotypes by Janice Wong
are currently on exhibit in Croatia for the
Splitgraphic Biennale, 2007.

Up to something

"Return" 60 x 90" (152 x 229 cm)
Gampi and Kozo papers with silkscreen image.



Detail of "Return."


With cousin Toddish McWong (aka Todd Wong), standing in front of
"Return" a 3 level paper construction, 60" x 90" (152 x 229 cm),
which looks a bit small in this photograph.
November 24, 2006; Eastside Culture Crawl event.

Exquisitely Crafted Compositions of Colourand Geometry

Excerpt from essay for artist Janice Wong, Open Studio Exhibition
"Not Everything All at Once" Toronto, 2005.

Janice Wong's works are exquisitely crafted compositions of colour and geometry that look like science and feel like a dream; schematics of systems floating in larger systems; hybrids of light and sound and other things we don't know. They are at once rational and mystical, mathematical and organic, scientific and spiritual, dynamic and meditative. They are calm and beautiful things that seduce and invite the viewer in where the final transcendence happens; we start to think about the relationships between the lines and the shapes and the blurs and the colours and the composition, and by our nature start to organize and make sense of these equations, this code, this language. We stay this long enough to think about these things because the work is curious and beautiful and we feel its sincerity. Curious, beautiful and sincere; there is truth there.

James Koester, Vancouver 2005
Vancouver sculptor James Koester's recent work includes a global mapping project and a sleep pod.

A Selection of Recent Monotypes + Paintings

Falling Floating


Little Squid


Mirage


Reunion


Raincoast

Books

You can look for kudos re: the Janice Wong Studio website and related blogspots in Crawford Kilian's new book "Writing for the Web 3.0", due in bookstores September, 2006.

Speaking of books...TO PURCHASE A COPY OF CHOW, please visit your local bookseller or order online via this LINK.

Have a peek here to catch up on the latest news for CHOW

Recent Commission

Commission for a painting based on this previous work:
"Average Daily Snowfall."
Commission completed Spring, 2006

Exhibition in Split, Croatia, September 2005

"Dialogue", a 2-person show with Croatian artist Nikola Skokandic, opens in Split, Croatia, Autumn 2005.
You can view photos of the exhibition, the Diocletian's Palace old city enclave of Split, Dubrovnik and the beautiful Dalmatian islands of Hvar and Korcula with this link: Croatia Photographs

"A Number of Events" Exhibition opens in Toronto

"A Number of Events", my exhibition of recent, large-sized monotypes, opened in Toronto at Open Studio on June 23, 2005. Open Studio is Toronto's premier printmaking studio; a wonderful facility for international printmakers, located in Toronto's 401 Richmond building, a heritage location dedicated to Fine Art endeavours. www.openstudio.on.ca

Showing (again) in the Annual Eastside Culture Crawl

Yes, it really has been 10 years. It was 1995 when Louise Pagé started the first open studio event at 1000 Parker Street. Before that, in the spring of 2004, Sophie Fernandez and David Pirie launched "Work In Progress" Vancouver Artists in their Studios, a city-wide open studio event.

LINK to contact Janice Wong.