🎨Ep. 45: Artist Advocate CYNTHIA TONGSON!!

Описание: Hosted by Debra Barsha. Be part of the show https://f.chat/iKVZ
Cynthia is the guardian of and advocate for the legacy of her late brother, Hong Kong ink artist Wesley Tongson. Recent projects include “Spiritual Mountains: The Art of Wesley Tongson” at Berkely Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, “Wesley Tongson-The Journey” at the Chinese Culture Center in San Francisco and “Ink Explorations: A Wesley Tongson Retrospective” at Hong Kong Arts Centre in Hong Kong. She has placed Tongson’s work in public collections including Hong Kong Museum of Art, M+ Museum of Visual Culture & University Museum and Art Gallery (HKU) in Hong Kong, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Asian Art Museum & Berkley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in the United States. In her work, Cynthia has collaborated with Asia Society Hong Kong, Christie’s Hong Kong, Fine Art Asia and others. She is a supporter of Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong and New York), Asian Cultural Council (Hong Kong) and she currently serves on the boards of Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco and Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. A native of Hong Kong, Cynthia splits her time between Hong Kong and New York.

About Wesley Tongson:

Wesley Tongson was born in Hong Kong in 1957. He started traditional Chinese painting in his teens and moved between Hong Kong and Canada for school while being diagnosed with schizophrenia. Tongson returned to Hong Kong in 1981, where he continued his studies with Harold Wong (1943-2022) as well as Liu Kuo-Sung (b.1932). Throughout the 1990s, Tongson explored ways of integrating his splash ink methods with traditional Chinese brushstroke techniques. Beginning in 2001, he also started to experiment with finger painting. In 2009, Tongson abandoned the brush and painted directly with his fingers and fingernails, creating emotionally communicative and powerful pieces, a hallmark of his mature period. Since his death in 2012, Tongson’s work has been shown in numerous solo exhibitions, most notably, a retrospective at the Hong Kong Arts Center in November 2014 and a major exhibition at Berkely Museum of Art and Pacific Film Archive from January to June 2022. His work is in public and private collections worldwide.