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Jun. 21, 2022 - At 88, a painter makes his debut
6/21/2022 | 1m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
At 88, an undiscovered painter makes his museum debut at Wing Luke.
The curator who found Victor Kai Wang’s decades of unusual artwork says it was ‘like stumbling upon buried treasure.’
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Jun. 21, 2022 - At 88, a painter makes his debut
6/21/2022 | 1m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
The curator who found Victor Kai Wang’s decades of unusual artwork says it was ‘like stumbling upon buried treasure.’
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At 88 years old, an undiscovered painter makes his museum debut at Wing Luke.
The Chinese American artist, Victor Kai Wong, lived much of his adult life in a house on Seattle's Beacon hill.
Besides a few showings at an antique shop in Bellevue in the 1990s, he had never exhibited his work in an art gallery or museum until now.
About a dozen of Wong's paintings are hanging in an upstairs exhibit space at the Wing Luke Museum, part of the group show, "Reorient: Journeys Through Art and Healing."
The show unites Wong's work with that of three other contemporary artists based in the American west.
All of the artists have something in common, experimenting with non-traditional art materials, like clothing, pumice and tree branches, to transform personal stories of immigration and trauma into joy.
I'm Starla Sampaco.
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