Kenneth Wong is a painter who has exhibited through Gowanus Open Studios in Brooklyn. His work addresses contemporary isolation and the strain of screen-based communication, rendering figures, such as a woman in black texting on a smartphone, against deliberately blank backgrounds. Wong has said that leaving out contextual detail "opens up possibilities for what it can be," using the approach to let a scene read as anywhere rather than a specific place. His painting "Waiting" (2018) was featured in coverage of that year's Gowanus Open Studios as an example of local artists responding to anxiety tied to digital devices.