Alice Wong - Painting Photographs

  PAINTING PHOTOGRAPHS | ALICE WONG Flexi-cover76 pages, 58 color plates9.5 x 11.75 in. TBW Books is pleased to announce the publication of Painting Photographs, a new book by Creative Growth Art Center artist Alice Wong. Wong's bold interpretation of vintage vernacular photographs breathes new life into family album kitsch and cliché shots of plants and landscapes, transforming them into a hyper-color plane of vivid abstraction. Using paint markers to enhance and obscure the formal qualities of appropriated imagery, Wong's hand brings energy to each underlying image, recalibrating the viewer's eye and sparking appreciation for otherwise still compositions. With fluid mark-making and a striking approach to color-blocking, Wong's craft merges with the photographic process to create work that feels at once of times past and completely contemporary. Creative Growth Art Center is the oldest and largest nonprofit art studio for artists with developmental disabilities in the United States. S