Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - Galeria Contempo warmly invites you to meet artist Lucille Wong at an opening cocktail reception of her most recent works on Friday, March 9th from 6 to 10 pm at their ultra-modern art gallery on Puerto Vallarta's Southside.

Wong is particularly known for her personal style in landscape and figural painting, which ranges from exquisite, expressive realism to expressionism with a strong orientalist undercurrent, in which her Mexican and Chinese roots shine through.

As a painter and draftswoman, Wong has an international trajectory enhanced by her technical perfectionism and creative eloquence. Similarly, she creates spaces imbued with a special style and form, while her treatment of nature simultaneously exhibits both strength and serenity.

Lucille Wong was born in Mexico City in 1949. In 1974, she put an end to her modern literature studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and that same year, at the age of 24, Lucille organized her first solo painting exhibition at an improvised gallery in a Mexico City suburb.

There was no rebuff or condemnation, she simply chose to use another language: the idiom of light, the grammar of forms and composition, the syntax of line and color; volume and space, the expressive prosody of rhythm, texture, contrasts.

It is strange, but the first person who noticed Lucille Wong possessed uncommon faculties was Guillermo Santi, master and teacher of the human figure, who after a while of imparting his lessons to her, rejected her as a student "to avoid hurting her," as he put it. These words were a sign that led to the calling of art and her discovery of destiny.

After a few years, a master of herself, sure of her power of language and of the uncontaminated confidence of her senses, with a clearly defined character, and without the technical restraints of a given school or style, she undertook the construction of a visual world in which the earth and the human being unfold as an act of accumulation and subjugation.

Since then, Wong has participated in over 35 solo exhibitions, as well as 150 collective expositions in Mexico and worldwide. Her works can be seen in permanent collections at various modern art museums throughout Mexico, and has been shown at galleries in Mexico, the US, Canada, Chile, Panama, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Japan.

In 1991, she was asked to paint a 1.68 x 4.50 meter mural, "Galope en Silencio" for the National Autonomous University UNAM in Mexico City. In April of 2010, the opening of the "Lucille Wong Retrospective Exhibition: Four Decades of Painting," took place at the Museum El Cuartel del Arte in Hidalgo, Mexico.

And on Friday, March 9th, you can meet this talented artist in person at an opening reception of her most recent works to be held from 6 to 10 pm at Galeria Contempo on the South Side of Puerto Vallarta.