Audiences Can’t Get Enough of California Artist Chelsea Ryoko Wong’s Paintings of Simple, Everyday JoysChelsea Ryoko Wong in her San Francisco studio. Photo: Shaun Roberts; Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco.
“I wanted to paint that moment, but I wanted to make it intergenerational,” Wong explained from her Mission District studio. “It’s a collage of memories past and present. Artists have the agency to create our own world, so my work is a mix of fact and fiction. I like to give people room for their own story in the image.”. Photo: Glen Cheriton, Impart Photography; Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco.
In a perpetual news cycle of division, violence, and social regression, reflecting true diversity and inclusion within one’s circles can seem like a radical, politically charged act. For Wong, it’s just the way it’s always been. Her father is a political science teacher from Hong Kong, whose family lived under Japanese occupation. Her mother is Japanese American, whose family spent time in US internment camps during World War II. Her three half-sisters are half Black and half Japanese.
“I wanted people to have a connection to this place even though they couldn’t be open for business, and keep that presence up, given what it means for the Chinese community here,” Wong said. “I had been thinking a lot about the Mission School imagery,” Silverman said. “I think of Chelsea’s work as an update to that, which had mainly been about white bodies.”
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