The ELEVEN show is a kaleidoscope of creativity. Each person has a distinct point of view, recognizable and divergent. This show will anoint the expanded space at Chimayo Trading with the energy of newness, a frisson created by showing a body of work that has truly never been seen or felt before.

Every year, on the first weekend of December, the historical Industrial Center Building in north Sausalito, beside Richardson Bay, the beloved creative home to over 100 artists, gets spiffed up for the greatest party of the year!  This is one of the few times of the year when participating artists’ studios on all three floors are open. Visitors are invited to wander and linger, browse and converse, and get their inquisitive and acquisitive juices flowing.

“Willing to Fly” is the title of Mimi Chen Ting’s one-person exhibition at the recently opened (since April 2017) Jen Tough Gallery in Vallejo, California. The phrase is taken from her statement in which she ascribes the impetus of her finding imagination to be a trusted ally and a source of comfort at a very young age, while growing up in Shanghai and Hong Kong. The selection of the works for the show was instigated by a dream:

Originally Published 2017

Standing expectantly before a primed canvas, Mimi Chen Ting makes her first mark. She draws a line on a pristine surface with a stick of charcoal and feels the congruent responsiveness of her hand, wrist, elbow, and shoulder. From this kinetic energy, Ting pushes off into a sequence of arcs, curves, geometric and biomorphic shapes, which serve as the foundation of her painting. The traces of her actions suggest such a euphoric release that it is little wonder the artist says succinctly, “I love beginnings.

Originally Published March 17, 2011

"Clarity" is what Mimi Chen Ting says you may notice most about her work, now on view in a vibrant group show called "Mostly Taos-Spring Show" at Hulse/ Warman Gallery, 222 Paseo del Pueblo Sur. The show runs through April 30 and includes work by Petro Hul, William Stewart, David Zimmerman, Michio Takayama, Beatrice Mandelman and Charles Strong.

Originally Published November 8, 2008

The Tangles and Ties of Human Relations: Mimi Chen Ting is a native of Shanghai, China, who received her graduate degree from San Jose State University. She was a resident of San Jose, and showed her work in the Bay Area until the early nineties, when she moved to Taos, New Mexico. Since that time she has shown extensively throughout the West and in the Southwest. The latest among her forays to international sites is her Fall 2008 exhibition at the Gallery Art Beatus, in Hong Kong.

Originally Published 2008

Mimi Chen Ting at Art Beatus: How to express one’s experience in life, as well as those of others around one, on canvas is a constant challenge for any artist. Whether or not one is working in the figurative or the abstract, the problems relating experience and controlling its expression so that the viewer is touched by it requires that the artist is a keen observer. This means possessing a close understanding not only of one’s external world and relationships but also one’s interior world and how both sides collide to become one within the painting.

Originally Published October 15, 2005

Fall Arts Top 10: 3. Mimi Chen Ting: “Southern Comfort”: A female figure transfixed in a doorway; a pyramidal structure—house or cliff; dashes of green suggesting a landscape; a swirl of claret-color rising upward. There was a startling amount of white space in Chen Ting’s crisp mixed-media piece.