Matthew Wong: Postcards

Publisher: Karma Books, New York
Publication Date: 2020
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st 
Condition: New
Hardcover, 50 pgs. 8.2 x 0.5 x 10.3 inches. Sealed, new. An intimate clothbound volume compiling the exquisite postcard paintings of Matthew Wong This fully illustrated volume collects Matthew Wong's small-scale postcard paintings made during the last year of his life in 2019. As Winnie Wong writes in her newly commissioned essay for the book, Art critics have observed that Matthew Wong's landscapes are uncannily familiar, and they do prompt viewers to search our own memories, but he almost never titled them as places. Instead, he consistently named them as moments in time: midnight, 5:00am, dawn, daybreak, 12:30am, Autumn, Winter, the first snow, the gloaming, the moon rise ….