TBW Books is pleased to announce the publication of Painting Photographs, a new book by Creative Growth Art Center artist Alice Wong.
Wong's bold interpretation of vintage vernacular photographs breathes new life into family album kitsch and cliché shots of
plants and landscapes, transforming them into a hyper-color plane of vivid abstraction. Using paint markers to enhance and
obscure the formal qualities of appropriated imagery, Wong's hand brings energy to each underlying image, recalibrating the viewer's eye
and sparking appreciation for otherwise still compositions. With fluid mark-making and a striking approach to color-blocking,
Wong's craft merges with the photographic process to create work that feels at once of times past and completely contemporary.
Creative Growth Art Center is the oldest and largest nonprofit art studio for artists with developmental disabilities in the United States.
Since 1974, Creative Growth has played a significant role in increasing public interest in the artistic capabilities and achievements of people
with disabilities, providing a professional studio environment for artistic development, gallery exhibition and representation.
shortlist of the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards 2023 - the First Photobook of the Year Prize
hardcover
76 pages
241 x 398 mm
color
2023
ISBN: 9781942953487
Founded in Tokyo in 2010, twelvebooks is a distributor specializing in art books.
As the exclusive Japanese representative for selected international publishers, twelvebooks manages the distribution
and promotion of their publications with a vision of making art books more widely accessible.
twelvebooks is also involved in various art book initiatives, including organizing the TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR.
In November 2024, twelvebooks opened SKWAT/twelvebooks in Nishikameari, Katsushika, a space that offers public access to its storage warehouse.