About the Tour
Thursday February 11, 2016 from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Join the Young Members Circle for a guided tour of the Bronx Museum of the Arts' celebrated retrospective of the work of Chinese-American painter Martin Wong (1946-1999) with collections manager, Heather Reyes.
The tour will begin promptly at 7 PM. Space is limited.
Bronx Museum of the Arts || 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th Street
Please RSVP by February 10, 2016.
For more information, please contact youngmembers@mcny.org or 917.492.3328
About the Exhibition
Martin Wong: Human Instamatic is the first museum retrospective of the work of Chinese-American painter Martin Wong (1946-1999) since his untimely death. This project gains momentum from recent exhibitions examining Wong as a collector and source of inspiration for contemporary artists: City as Canvas (Museum of the City of New York, 2014); Dahn Vo, I M U U R 2 (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2013); and Taiping Tianguo: Ai Weiwei, Frog King Kwok, Tehching Hsieh, and Martin Wong in New York (Para Site, Hong Kong, 2012; and e-flux, NY, 2014). In contrast, Human Instamatic offers the first in-depth assessment of Wong’s formal contributions as a painter, placing his work in line with such 20th-century painters as Marsden Hartley and Alice Neel, both renowned for their insightful portraits of the communities in which they lived.
The New York Times notes that fervor, desire, and coded insider-outsider knowledge crackle” throughout the exhibition. Co-curated by Sergio Bessa and Yasmin Ramirez, the exhibition features over 90 of Wong’s paintings with rarely-seen archival materials from the Martin Wong Papers at the Fales Library of New York University.
Martin Wong: Human Instamatic is currently on view at the Bronx Museum through February 14, 2016.
Visit the Museum of the City of New York's exhibition, Chris "Daze" Ellis: The City is My Muse, whose work was featured in Martin Wong's collection of graffiti and was a close friend of the artist and collector. The City is My Muse is on view through May 1, 2016.