CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/1/2026

'Mathew Wong: Interiors' — radiating the light of dreams

“Vertigo” (2019) is reproduced from new release Matthew Wong: Interiors, published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name, opening next week at Palazzo Tiepolo Passi to coincide with the 2026 Venice Biennale. “Many of Wong’s interiors mark time,” Nancy Spector writes in the catalog, published by The Matthew Wong Foundation. “Apparently, he painted furiously, on occasion making up to three works per day, so there could conceivably be morning, afternoon and evening canvases. Like the Impressionists—another central source for his practice—the artist was keenly aware of the changing effects of light throughout the day and how that could impact the optical effects of color. But his paintings were created indoors, a product of the imagination. The light described is thus an inner light, the kind that radiates in one’s dreams.”

Matthew Wong. VERTIGO, 2019. Oil on canvas. 36 x 30 in. / 91.4 x 76.2 cm. © 2026 Matthew Wong Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photography by Alex Yudzon.