Mimi Chen Ting + Lizzie Scott
Mimi Chen Ting (1942-2022) "Our First Tango," 2015, Acrylic on canvas (diptych), 25 x 56 in (63.5 x 142.2 cm) © Estate of Mimi Chen Ting / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Lizzie Scott "Ray," 2022, flashe on muslin with mixed textiles and wood, 42 x 52 in (106.7 x 132 cm)
Mimi Chen Ting: “Our First Tango”
+ Lizzie Scott: "Ray"
April 23-June 5, 2022
Opening Reception: Sat, Apr 23, 5-7pm
Hours: Open by appointment only
Directions: Norte Maar, 88 Pine Street, Cypress Hills, Brooklyn
J/Z Train to Brooklyn, Crescent Street Stop
Norte Maar is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by the late Bay Area artist Mimi Chen Ting (1946-2022). On view in the ground floor Pine Street gallery will be four works by Ting demonstrating her embracing of Abstract Expressionism as well as the Buddhist practice of the beginner’s mind. The selection spans many years of Ting’s oeuvre. This is the first East Coast presentation of Ms. Ting’s work. Hanging in conversation with Ting is a single work in flashe on muslin with mixed textiles and wood by Brooklyn-based artist Lizzie Scott entitled "Ray." Lizzie Scott has been working with the intersections of textiles, painting and sculpture for nearly 20 years.
The work of Mimi Chen Ting are presented in collaboration with the Estate of Mimi Chen Ting and Artist Estate Studio, LLC.
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. Immigrating to the United States, she first studied psychology then redirected her education to study painting. She received her BA from San Jose State University in 1969 and her MA in painting in 1976.
Beginning what she called her “second migratory arc,” in 1988, Ms. Ting impulsively purchased a one-room house on the mesa in Taos, New Mexico. The desire to see the Santa Fe Opera was the initial impetus for the visit to New Mexico. Initially conceived as a private retreat, Taos evolved into a major workspace for expanded stays. There, she found continuous inspiration from the ever-changing vistas, uncompromising grandeur, and spectacular weather patterns of the high desert.
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,” she said.
Ms. Ting was actively involved in the planning of what will be the first East Coast presentation of her work. Unfortunately, the artist passed away last month after a long battle with cancer.
Lizzie Scott has been working with the intersections of textiles, painting and sculpture for nearly 20 years. Her interdisciplinary work has been shown throughout the United States and in Europe. Lizzie received her MFA from CalArts, her BA from Brown University, and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program. She has had solo exhibitions at John Tevis Gallery (Paris), Galerie Gris (Hudson), The Jersey City Museum, and LMAK Projects (NYC). Her performances, sculptures and paintings have appeared in group shows including at Zurcher Studio (NYC) Rachel Uffner Gallery (NYC), Kate MacGarry Gallery (London), Ohio University Art Gallery (Athens), Bennington College (VT), The Brooklyn Museum, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
From 2009-2016 Lizzie ran The Total Styrene Experience, a roving performance laboratory. Her work has been featured and reviewed in numerous publications including Artforum and The New York Times. Lizzie has been a MacDowell Colony fellow and a New York Foundation for the Arts sponsored artist. Her work is in collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, The Baltimore Museum of Art and the RISD Museum.
