Opal Mae Ong is a Filipino-American artist living and working on Lenapehoking in Brooklyn, New York. Their current series is rooted in a felt response to the natural world and an innate reverence for the otherworldly.
Drawing from lost ancestral knowledge, grief, and speculative visions, their paintings and drawings form a kind of personal myth-making. The work presents landscapes where feminine others crawl toward horizons, commune with flora, carry moons, shapeshift, or collapse from unrest.
Ong constructs, deconstructs, and reconstructs each work over several weeks, blending methodical and intuitive impulses.
