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About the Author
As a mixed media artist and bilingual poet, Cymn Lai Fong Wong 黃千芳grew up in Hong Kong and currently lives in Maryland of the United States. She has been named Chosen Artists for Winning Entry at the Contemporary Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibitions, 1994, 1996, 1998, and honored with the Ideco International Painting Award in Spain (the Grand Prize) in 1997. Likewise, Lai Fong Wong will debut her solo art exhibitions respectively at the Woman’s National Democratic Club and Arts Club in Washington in the Spring of 2024.
With extensive publications on poetry and fine art, Cymn’s lifelong commitments to bilingual poetry and expanded visual art works have been internationally recognized, whereas her English poetry anthology FIRE ON THE ZEN, published by the New Academia Publishing in Washington in 2021, has been rated for 5 stars by Amazon’s nationally acclaimed literary critic Char Jones, praising for Wong’s spectacular synchronized language in portraying an epic canvas on Hong Kong. Recently Wong’s poetry readings have been archived by the Library of Congress, under The Poet and the Poem, since 2023.
Cymn obtained her first degree on philosophy in Hong Kong. Subsequent to earning her B.F.A. degree at Washington State University, she gained a M.Ed. in aesthetics & art education in Bristol University of the United Kingdom, and a Ph.D. in sociology of art curriculum at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Academically, Wong served as lecturer at The Education University of Hong Kong in creative arts; furthermore, Cymn served as chief curator for The Airport Authority Hong Kong.
Lai Fong is still presiding the Moonz Art Creative Centre, which have been producing lines of artistic fashions and installing art in different series over the years.
POESY SPECTRUM: Flow…
Cymn Lai-Fong WongNew Academia Publishing/SCARITH, 2024
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About the Author
As a mixed media artist and bilingual poet, Cymn Lai Fong Wong 黃千芳grew up in Hong Kong and currently lives in Maryland of the United States. She has been named Chosen Artists for Winning Entry at the Contemporary Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibitions, 1994, 1996, 1998, and honored with the Ideco International Painting Award in Spain (the Grand Prize) in 1997. Likewise, Lai Fong Wong will debut her solo art exhibitions respectively at the Woman’s National Democratic Club and Arts Club in Washington in the Spring of 2024.
With extensive publications on poetry and fine art, Cymn’s lifelong commitments to bilingual poetry and expanded visual art works have been internationally recognized, whereas her English poetry anthology FIRE ON THE ZEN, published by the New Academia Publishing in Washington in 2021, has been rated for 5 stars by Amazon’s nationally acclaimed literary critic Char Jones, praising for Wong’s spectacular synchronized language in portraying an epic canvas on Hong Kong. Recently Wong’s poetry readings have been archived by the Library of Congress, under The Poet and the Poem, since 2023.
Cymn obtained her first degree on philosophy in Hong Kong. Subsequent to earning her B.F.A. degree at Washington State University, she gained a M.Ed. in aesthetics & art education in Bristol University of the United Kingdom, and a Ph.D. in sociology of art curriculum at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Academically, Wong served as lecturer at The Education University of Hong Kong in creative arts; furthermore, Cymn served as chief curator for The Airport Authority Hong Kong.
Lai Fong is still presiding the Moonz Art Creative Centre, which have been producing lines of artistic fashions and installing art in different series over the years.
POESY SPECTRUM: Flow…
From the artist: “I render a refreshing dimension of abstract ink-brushing landscapes with an enriched frame of mind and passion rooted in poetry that reveals the unspoken meaning of painting. This painting is sublimated by its will power and stimulated imagery, which are imbued with a subtle fuse of intrinsic motion and poetic fluidity, allowing the inner-echoes flow to lead the brushstrokes on its own accord. It is totally sensitized and free to strive on an unlimitedly transformed landscape anew.”
Praise
“Cymn Lai-Fong Wong’s words are pure spiritual utterances, and her paintings have harnessed primary energy from the invisible world. If courage and innovation were to be weighed, there would be no scale great enough. There is a living working genius in our midst, among us, within reach, who is giving life to the natural mysteries of what an artist can bring through her body, to offer the world.” —Grace Cavalieri, Maryland Poet Laureate
“While influenced by her Chinese heritage, Cymn Lai-Fong Wong’s art and poetry are universal. To build her visual field, Cymn draws on the traditional Eastern tools and education, such as ink brush, calligraphy, and papier-mâché. In addition, she effectively merges Western abstract art into her work, achieving a unique style. Her works harken back to Chinese landscape painting while also delving into the abstract. This allows her to express herself without any rules imposed by any single visual tradition. Moving easily from one culture to another in her art, Cymn brings her own rich vocabulary to our attention. Her work enriches and diversifies the Washington art scene and stimulates our curiosity of how a single artist can work simultaneously and vividly in two cultures. —Nuzhat Sultan, Curator, Woman’s National Democratic Club
“A non-native English writer, Lai-Fong Wong uses her cipher skills to create a language of different rhetoric and rhymes. In this way, she is developing her own poetry idioms and styles of brevity and allusiveness. Wong has transformed and innovated the conventional hierarchy of visual art by inputting her personally creative elements, such as free-hand brushing/washing, calligraphy stroke sprinkling, imprint texturing, and striking matches of colors; she flows/fluidifies spatiality with her established techniques in order to expand the image with mystery and intensity.” —Wing-Chi Chan, poet cum musician; Chair Professor for the Arts, Beijing Capital Normal University; Consultant for National Endowment for the Arts