“Dad’s Stick features three well-used objects that my father showed me shortly before he died. Two of these were so steeped in history that their original forms and functions were almost completely obscured.” Watch extract on vimeo:
Vo has long been fascinated by the life and work of Martin Wong, a visionary painter and beloved figure of New York’s downtown art scene of the 1980s and ’90s. After acquiring one of Wong’s works, he struck up a correspondence with the artist’s mother, Florence Wong Fie, and eventually visited her home in San Francisco. There, he discovered a remarkable collection of objects ranging from curios and tourist souvenirs to rare antique ceramics and scrolls of calligraphy, interspersed with numerous examples of Wong’s paintings and works on paper.
‘Untitled’ (2007) by Jordan Wolfson combines the Prologue by Philip Leider from the film “Painters Painting The New York Art Scene 1940-1970” (by Emile de Antonio, 1972) with Wolfson’s own footage of a slow pan and zoom of a Mac Classic Computer sitting on the edge of a rural highway.
