Mimi Chen Ting at Intersect Palm Springs (Feb 9-12)
Palm Springs Convention Center, Palm Springs
Booth #119
February 9-12, 2023
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Artist Estate Studio makes its art fair debut!
As an agency tasked to steward the legacy of artists, Artist Estate Studio brings an all-women presentation to Palm Springs.
This installment offers a multi-narrative rethinking of the art historical canon by exhibiting the work of five women artists including: the color-theories-made-personal in the works by Swedish-American painter Siri Berg (1921-2020); the lyrical paintings of Chinese-American painter Mimi Chen Ting (1946-2022); the bucolic abstractions of Judith Dolnick (b.1934); the fractured mosaic-like painted panels that capture ancient architecture by Hermine Ford (b.1939); the stark and strictly black and white oil-stick paintings by Joan Witek (b.1943); and the colorful tectonic mixed-media ceramics of Adirondack based sculptor Ali Della Bitta (b.1981). Grounding this selection are important prints by Joan Mitchell and Elizabeth Murray.
Of the artists presented, many have rarely, if ever, exhibited on the West Coast.
Dates and Times:
Opening Night Preview!
Thursday, February 9 | 5 - 8 pm (VIP/All Access Pass only)
General Admission:
Friday, February 10 | 11 am - 6 pm
Saturday, February 11 | 11 am - 5 pm
Sunday, February 12 | 11 am - 3 pm (10 - 11 am VIP hour)
Mimi Chen Ting (1946-2022) “Been There and Back,” 2015, acrylic on canvas, 54 x 48 in (137.2 x 121.9 cm)
Mimi Chen Ting (1946-2022) was a Chinese-American painter, printmaker, and performance artist whose high-spirited practice fused Eastern and Western aesthetics. She was active in the artist communities of the Bay Area of San Francisco, CA, and Taos, NM. An intense, unpretentious woman with a soft voice and fierce spirit, Ms. Ting was born in Shanghai, China, at the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War and during the communist takeover of the mainland.
While her career is book-ended by an interest in the expressive possibilities of abstraction, Ms. Ting’s paintings from the 1980s, 90s and early aughts focused primarily on figurative work that explored notions of womanhood, immigration, and a somatic relationship between landscape and place. Embracing the processes of Abstract Expressionism as well as the Buddhist practice of the beginner’s mind, Ms. Ting regularly approached her canvases without any preconceived ideas, preferring to allow the direct application of paint and the subconscious gesture to dictate her compositions. She often worked thematically and in series.
Mimi Chen Ting received her BA and MA from Cal State San Jose (1969, 1976) and studied dance and performance with Anna Halprin, Sherwood Chen, and Hiroko Tamano. Solo exhibitions include the forthcoming retrospective at Sonoma State University, Sonoma (2023); Norte Maar, Brooklyn (2022); Art Beatus, Hong Kong (2018, 2011) Vedder Price, San Francisco (2018); The Harwood Museum of Art, Tao (2005); Taos Fine Art Gallery, Taos (1993); Stanford University Center for Integrated Studies, Palo Alto (1991); Oakland Museum Collectors Gallery, Oakland (1986); Cal State University, San Jose (1979); Lucien Labaudt Gallery, San Francisco (1970). Group Exhibitions include “Work by Women,” Harwood Museum of Art, Taos (2018); “Face to Face,” Corrales Bosque Gallery, Corrales (2005); “Landscape and Memory,” Sedona Art Center Gallery, Sedona (2002); “Different Voices,” Santa Barbara Women's Center, Santa Barbara (1992); “75th Anniversary Exhibition,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose (1987). Public collections include Harwood Museum, Taos, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, among others.
Mimi Chen Ting (1946-2022) “Loves Notes,” 2016, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 54 in (121.9 x 137.2 cm)
