Galeria Contempo Proudly Presents The Work Of Lucille Wong

WONG is particularly known for her personal style in landscape and figural painting, which ranges from exquisite, expressive realism to expressionism with a strong orientalist- undercurrent, in which her Mexican and Chinese roots shine through.

Lucille Wong was born in Mexico City in 1949.

In 1974, Lucille put an end to her modern literature studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and that same year, mysteriously, (we are viewing a 24 year old woman), she organized her first solo painting exhibition at an improvised gallery in a Mexico City suburb.

There was no rebuff or condemnation; she simply chose to use another language.

The idiom of light, the grammar of forms and composition, the syntax of line and color; volume and space, the expressive prosody of rhythm, texture, and contrasts.

It is strange, but the first person who noticed Lucille Wong possessed uncommon faculties was Guillermo Santi, master and teacher of the human figure, who after a while of imparting his lessons to her rejected her as a student “to avoid hurting her” as he put it.

These words were a sign that led to the calling of art and her discovery of destiny.

After a few years, a master of herself, sure of her power of language and of her uncontaminated confidence of her senses, with a clearly defined character, and without the technical restraints of a given school or style, she undertook the construction of a visual world in which the earth and the human being unfold as an act of accumulation and subjugation.

Since then, Wong has participated in over 150 collective exhibitions in Mexico and worldwide, as well as 35 solo ones.

As a painter and draftswoman, Wong has an international trajectory enhanced by her technical perfectionism and creative eloquence. Similarly, she creates spaces imbued with a special style and form, while her treatment of nature simultaneously exhibits both strength and serenity.
Her work has been shown in Mexico, the USA, Canada, Chile, Panama, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Japan.
In 1991, she was asked to paint the mural “GALOPE EN SILENCIO” (1.68x4.50 meters) for the National Autonomous University UNAM in Mexico City.

Seven of her paintings and drawings were used by the Opus One Publishers (New York-Stockholm, 1994) group for their Collection of Contemporary Masters.

Her works are hanging at different museums throughout Mexico; like the MUCA, Museo Contemporaneo de Arte de la UNAM; at the Centro Cultural “Vito Alessio Robles in the city of Saltillo, at the Instituto Nacional de Nutricion “Salvador Zubiran”, at the Museo de la Escuela Preparatoria, formally known as San Ildefonso College, also at ther Museo de Arte in Queretaro and the Museo de Arte Moderno in the State of Mexico.

GALERIA CONTEMPO is proudly presenting Lucille Wongs work at Basilio Badillo 252, in the Romantic Zone.