Holly Wong creates fiber and drawing-based installations and collaged paintings that explore healing and resilience.  She was educated at the San Francisco Art Institute where she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts. Holly has participated in over 100 exhibitions including group shows at the de Young Museum, the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Contemporary Jewish Museum.  A Presidential Scholar in the Arts, she has received grants from the California Arts Council (Established Artist category), the Puffin Foundation, the George Sugarman Foundation, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.  She is represented by SLATE Contemporary Gallery in Oakland, CA, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, ELLIO Fine Art in Houston, TX, and is a member of A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.  Holly lives and works in San Francisco.

Mind/Mountain is an installation of multiple sheets of suspended white polyester tulle that has been sewn through with variegated, light reflective thread. Natural daylight plays an important role in the work as it activates the surfaces of the tulle and the full range of color in the thread.  The tulle serves as a metaphor for the thought process because the fabric surfaces are sewn through with hundreds and hundreds of interlinking and enmeshed lines.  The drawing-like line of the thread serves as a kind of visual dendrite that travels in the work.  It is a journeying of ideas in the mind with the fabric as a proxy for consciousness.

Exhibition:

In The Dormant Splendor