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TOMS RIVER – The Toms River Branch of the Ocean County Library will host “An Exhibit of Everything That Resonates in Life” by painter Anne Wong in the McConnell Gallery throughout the month of May.

Anne Wong has been painting since she was a child in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, taking private lessons, hoping to attend an art college. However, life took her on a different path, graduating from the University of Malaya with a degree in Social Science and Psychology. Suffering personal trauma after Hurricane Sandy in 2012, she began painting again and traveled to Vancouver, Canada in 2015 to study with renowned mandala artist Paul Heussenstamm.

Wong sees her works, especially her mandala art, as manifestations of the fluid, dynamic, circular wheels of life; with no end or beginning, mysteriously woven into the fabric of space-time where time is not quantifiable. “It therefore becomes a state of being, where everything is nothing, and nothing is everything,” she says.

A reception with the artist will be held from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 2 in the McConnell Gallery.

The branch is located at 101 Washington Street.

“An Exhibit of Everything That Resonates in Life” is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the branch at 732-349-6200, ext. 5100, or visit theoceancountylibrary.org.

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