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From UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art

  1. Our Dream Come True by Elena Brokaw, Ramiro García, Image 1.

    Elena Brokaw, Ramiro García

    Our Dream Come True, 2023

    Altered black and white photograph

  2. Aconitum by Sean Slattery, Image 1.

    Sean Slattery

    Aconitum, 2017

    Color lithograph on Rives BFK

    20 x 16 in

  3. Panoptic Liger XVI by Michael Ogilvie, Image 1.

    Michael Ogilvie

    Panoptic Liger XVI, 2005

    Acrylic

    22 x 28 in

  4. Hugs 'End of the Rainbow' Series VIII by Michael Ogilvie, Image 1.

    Michael Ogilvie

    Hugs 'End of the Rainbow' Series VIII, 2005

    Pencil, ink, acrylic

    30 x 20 in

  5. Rain by Yek, Image 1.

    Yek

    Rain, 2001

    Acrylic on panel

    44 x 44 x 1 in

  6. Stillness #30 by Laura Aguilar, Image 1.

    Laura Aguilar

    Stillness #30, 1999

    Gelatin silver print

    11 x 14 in

  7. Happy Birthday, Herb #18 by Richard Tuttle, Image 2.

    Richard Tuttle

    Happy Birthday, Herb #18, 1997

    Graphite and colored pencil on paper mounted on grey paper

    11 x 5.875 in

  8. Plumbing Supplies by Jack Endewelt, Image 1.

    Jack Endewelt

    Plumbing Supplies, 1990

    Oil on linen

    50 x 60 x 1 in

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About the artist

Yek

Singaporean

Born in Singapore, Yek Wong was sent abroad for his education by a father who wanted his sons to become cosmopolitan. In 1990, after rejecting the possibility of an engineering degree, he decided to study art at the University of Texas in Austin – “a very traditional, narrative school,” he told the Los Angeles Times ten years later. Wanting a change of pace after graduation, he relocated to Las Vegas and earned an MFA at UNLV, where he began to separate himself from some of the ideas that he had learned in Texas. All of the easily-recognized objects in his work were gradually replaced by abstract floods of modulated color, and he removed the word "Wong" from his signature so that people would stop “reading my background into my work.” Later, in the 2000s, he returned to Singapore. “The best work, in my opinion, is abstract and ambiguous," he says.