Mary Ting
Mary Ting
Workspace Program Resident 1993
Working in a rage of mediums including sculpture, photography, paper, and video, Mary Ting’s work focuses on her personal experience and family history. Ting, a first generation Chinese American, was raised in the suburbs of Long Island, but maintained close family ties to China where she would eventually return to and work for a number of years. Running through her body of work are allegorical themes, fairy tales, and mythology. This folklore comes from both the East and West,further penetrating her personal and family histories. Her work exposes humanities communal anxieties by infiltrating deeper levels of consciousness. She leaves much of her work deliberately ambiguous allowing the viewer to affix their own personal history to the work. Mary Ting’s work at Dieu Donne spins a fragile cocoon from pulped banana stalk fiber called abaca. Punctured by staples and hung by knotted cord, these skin-like sacs represent the ravaged body.
About the Artist
Mary Ting is a Chinese American visual artist with a studio practice that includes: installation, sculpture, video, cut paper, printmaking and drawing. Her work takes inspirations from folk culture, natural history museums, memories and literature. Ting is the recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships (2001, 2007), Lambent Fellowship in the Arts (2003-06), Puffin Foundation, the Ruth Chenven Foundation Award, and a Pollack Krasner Foundation grant among others. She has also been a resident at the Macdowell Colony, Millay Colony, Soaring Gardens Artist Residency, and an Alden B. Dow Creativity Center fellow. Mary has also been a participant in the Dieu Donne Workspace program, Bronx Museum Artist in the Marketplace, Henry Street Settlement AIR Program and the Lower Eastside Printshop Special Editions program.
She teaches sculpture and drawing at CUNY @ John Jay College and is also part of the graduate faculty at Transart Institute MFA in New Media, Berlin//NY. Mary has a BFA from Parsons School of Design, a diploma from the Central Academy of Fine Art, Folkart Research Institute in Beijing, China, and a MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Mary also writes poetry and non-fiction and resides in New York City. (Source: Artist’s Website)
For more information, please visit their website: https://www.maryting.com/