ELIO WONG
Elio Wong uses acrylic paint, oil pastel, and colored pencils to create compositions containing shapes, spontaneous brushstrokes, and invented languages that redefine expressionism through abstraction. His work elevates the act of creating through accidents or chance.
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b. 1994 in Ecuador/Italy
Elio Wong (1994) is a visual artist and musician who graduated from DePaul University in Chicago. He has taken independent workshops on color theory, abstraction, and layered painting. His work explores pictorial abstraction through scribbles and elements composed of accidents or chance. His knowledge in music production has served as inspiration to support his compositions of elements derived from music. He has exhibited individually and collectively at HYBRID Art Fair in Madrid, Espacio Cultural Plaza la Fuente (Guayaquil), Piso 4 Art Gallery (Guayaquil), Natuzzi Editions (Guayaquil), and the Art Gallery of the Guayaquil Country Club. He currently lives and works in Samborondón, Ecuador.
Wong uses acrylic paint, oil pastel, and colored pencils to create compositions containing shapes, spontaneous brushstrokes, and invented languages that redefine expressionism through abstraction. His work elevates the act of creating through accidents or chance. He often uses scribbles, a graphic element loaded with memories and value from childhood, when the artist took them as an expressive medium without the intention of creating figurative images that adhere to drawing principles.
Elio Wong believes in the existing duality between art and everyday life. He enjoys exploring angles or paradigms that limit exploration or creation through established norms or concepts. For him, his works stem from the sincerity of the moment, with the intention that the viewer does not feel alien to the understanding that decisions within art are not confined to the concrete knowledge of a discipline.
Works
Sexy Blue, 2023
186 × 164 cm
2700 USD
Homework, 2023
Acrylic, spray paint, and colored pencils on canvas
150 × 120 cm
59 1/10 × 47 1/5 in
1550 USD
La última hoja de mi cuaderno, 2023
52.3 × 42 cm
Cuatro Garras, 2023
52.3 × 42 cm
420 USD
PROARTE EXHIBITION
Hybrid 2023
Elio Wong , Jimmy Lara, Chay Velasco, Pamela Suasti, Poli Lunar, y Erick Franco - 24 - 26 February
Hybrid Art Fair 2023 stood out as a beacon of innovation and artistic diversity, providing a platform for the ProArte Foundation to showcase emerging national contemporary art in a renowned international event.
Ruta de Arte de Madrid a Milán
Maureen Gubia, Elio Wong, Poli Lunar, Esteban Jácome, Jimmy Lara, Chay Velasco, and Erick Franco - September 6, 2023
This exhibition in Guayaquil Country Club features works by Ecuadorian artists who traveled to Europe to participate in art fairs in Madrid, Spain, and Milan, Italy.