Mimi Chen Ting Studio

: 6 Shows Celebrating Asian American Artists This AAPI Heritage Month
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The trio of Asian American painters featured in Alisan Fine Arts’s new show spans generations and engages with a range of art historical traditions, such as Surrealism, hard-edge abstraction, and Chinese album painting. The eldest of the group, the late Mimi Chen Ting, distilled the organic shapes of the landscape of New Mexico—where she lived part-time in the latter half of her life—into colorful, minimalist contours. The Chinese Canadian artist Yifan Jiang’s more conceptual practice encompasses animation, sculpture, and performance, but it is her paintings of mystical, dreamlike landscapes that take the spotlight here. Kelly Wang’s practice, meanwhile, is grounded in materiality; she uses Chinese ink painting and layers of minerals and ground metals to create diaphanous, monochrome abstractions. Despite their varied approaches, all three artists bring lyricism and fluidity to their work.
—@ Olivia Horn
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