A native of Shanghai, China, Mimi Chen Ting has resided in the United States since 1965.  She has a Master’s degree in Art from the California State University and has taught art at the San Jose City College and the University of California in Berkeley.  Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States and abroad, including the Albuquerque Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico; the San Jose Museum of Art in San Jose California; the Millicent Rogers Museum, and The Harwood Museum in Taos, New Mexico; the Colorado Museum of Contemporary Art in Fort Collins; the Schneider Museum of Art of Southern Oregon University in Ashland; Art in General in New York City; the Lowe Art Museum of the University of Miami in Florida; the American Embassy in Malaysia; Art Forum Gallery in Singapore; Manukau City Gallery in New Zealand.  In addition, her paintings are in numerous public, corporate, and private collections including those of AT & T, Advance Micro Device, Xerox Corporation, Kaiser Permanente, the University of Phoenix, Stanford University Hospital, the Harwood Museum, and the International Miniature Museum of Contemporary Art.

Artist's Statement

I am like an irrepressible child, capable of boundless possibilities, when I enter my studio. I thrill at the process of making marks and I relish the meandering that my medium proffers. My path is smoothest when I am willing to fall. On this solitary journey, I simply cannot allow any mislay of direction, as every turn promises an adventure and each step brings me closer toward home.

The ideas for “Tangles and Ties” began when I witnessed the progress of my friend’s heartbreak.  Her subsequent struggles and her unyielding passion for life continued inspiring my works.  These paintings are my roadmaps for exploring into the diverse and complex nature of the human experiences.   Each work is seeded by a revelation, and cultivated by percolation and integration.  The interactions of the cords and strings provide agile and ever-evolving metaphors for the many dances in life.  Elements are distilled and organized toward coherence and resonance.   I am not seeking for a resolution, only to embrace and honour the bonds that make us one.

------  by Mimi Chen Ting