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This Thursday I’ll be painting in front of an audience that hopes to include you. All in the name of charity

| Adrienne Wong :: AWongStudio

This Thursday see artists create a piece in front of your eyes while you imbibe cocktails and wine, while being charitable!  Be at Artcetera IV at Roak, 6.30pm to help me overcome performance anxiety. Artcetera benefits Lymphoma and Leukemia research. Get your tickets at http://artceteralive.com or go to facebook  for more info. THIS Thursday 23rd, 6.30pm, Roak on Kirby (the club with the pool inside).

New show for May, opening party May 12th, 2-5pm

| Adrienne Wong :: AWongStudio

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You’re invited to attend the opening party of the east2collective’s first curated art show. It is at Studios 201 and 228 at Spring St. The show is called 5by5by5 – the art will be no bigger than 5 inches tall, wide and deep. Artists include painters, photographers, designers, printmakers from everywhere – Houston, London, New York…

The show will be viewable until June 9th and at watch this space and the east2collective website for hours…

The Butterfly – a short film

| Adrienne Wong :: AWongStudio

This is a short (1 min: 5 sec) film that showed tonight at the Voices Breaking Boundaries art event/artists’ talk ‘What’s Color Got To Do With It?’ about love and culture. The topic threw up a lot of questions for me: what is love and are the differences/similarities due to culture, eras, or gender? I was inspired by the old Chinese legend of The Butterfly Lovers which tells the story of two people who were forbidden to marry, so they threw themselves into a grave and emerged as two butterflies to be together forever. I was interested that this romantic idea of love has so many similarities to the Western idea of love, of all-consuming passionate, true love. The butterflies I cut from an Asian newspaper and an American romance novel and is in reference to the Chinese paper cutting craft technique which often is of butterfly shapes. The symbolism of butterflies that I refer to in my paintings (metamorphosis, hidden strength, mortality) carry through to the paper shapes.

The music was composed and performed  for the film, by a very talented young man, Jacob, who is a mere 9 years-old. Thanks Jacob, for collaborating with me!

Thanks to Kafah Bachari Manna for inviting me to take part, and all the VBB people for providing the forum.

Group shows, February 2012

| Adrienne Wong :: AWongStudio

ImageMy work will be in a new group show curated by Kafah Bachari Manna with Voices Breaking Boundaries. What’s Color Got to Do With It? deals with race and color in  interracial relationships. Head over to the Houston Institute for Culture, 708C Telephone Rd, Houston 77023 this Sunday night.

If you’re in New York, stop by Wayfarers Gallery where one of my newspaper butterfly pieces is showing in a group show called I Ch-Ch-Choose You. I was at the opening party this past weekend and was very impressed by the other artists’ work. Until Feb 26th, 2012; Wayfarers Gallery, Dekalb St, Brooklyn, New York City.

Open studio for January, today 2 – 5pm

| Adrienne Wong :: AWongStudio

The first Open Studio for the year at Spring and Winter Sts today at 2-5pm. Come and see the latest painting I’ve been working on in my studio, plus some new artists that have joined the building. It’s lovely outside, go for a walk to the warehouse! Entry doors on Spring, also Sabine. 1824 SpringSt. My studio is upstairs by the fire escape.