Mary Ting: UNTOLD STORIES at the Rockland Center for the Arts

UNTOLD STORIES curated by TT alumn Mary Ting

Artists Tara Sabharwal,  Mary Ting and Yeon Ji Yoo are showing their works in a group show:

April 15- June 10, 2023
Save the date: Sat, June 3, 4pm - Artist talk 
Rockland Center for the Arts
27 s. Greenbush Rd.
West Nyack, NY 10994
845-358-0877
Metro North ride to Tarrytown, taxi to ROCA
mon-sat. 11-4pm. (note if you want to drop by later, give a call)

Untold Stories at the Emerson Gallery brings together the art of Tara Sabharwal, Yeon Ji Yoo and me, Mary Ting. Within these three artists’ work: histories, memories, dreams, whispers, and whimpers are dissected, reassembled, and transformed.  

The varied art of Sabharwal, Ting and Yoo are evocations of loss: as well as divinations, odes to nature and rejuvenation. Untold Stories are the three artists’ individual pilgrimages into the hauntings of our century. And along the way: the longing, grief and melancholy metamorphoses into another imagining, and the landscape of resilience.

Within Mary Ting’s varied art practice of installation, drawing, photography and video, the prevailing emphasis is the use of the fragment within a nonlinear narrative.  Her work inhabits the realm of temporality, private obsessions and the sensual.  Layered with stories, glimpses of memories, metaphors, her animals, figures, limbs, and cropped forms are both personal and allegorical. 

Mary completed her MFA at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, is an avid gardener certified master composter and also a frequent lecturer, independent curator and writer. Mary Ting’s artwork has been exhibited extensively in the U.S. and abroad since 1986. Mary currently teaches sculpture, drawing and paper, 2D/3D, and Bookarts for Pratt Manhattan, SUNY at Nassau Community College and CUNY.

A two-time recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship,  2016 Joan Mitchell Center New Orleans Residency, 2016 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council  In Process Residency, 2010 Gottlieb Foundation individual grant, Lambent Fellowship,  Pollack Krasner Foundation among others.  Residencies include MacDowell Colony, Lower Eastside Printshop Special Editions, Dieu Donne Papermill Workspace, and others. 

Mary Ting

Mary Ting currently teaches at CUNY John Jay College in the studio art department and the Sustainability and the Environmental Justice Program.  She is also faculty at Transart Institute MFA Program, New York/Berlin.  Mary is an avid gardener certified master composter and citizen She is also a frequent lecturer, independent curator and writer.  The crazed ravaging of the earth, the displacement of vulnerable communities and pending extinctions is what keeps her up at night and also awakens her in the morning.

She is currently researching and writing about Chinese Modern History, Trauma, and the Lust for Endangered Species Parts.  She has presented at the Asia for Animals Kathmandu 2017, On Changing Human Behavior at the Jane Goodall Institute, Nepal; UC Davis, Donkey Welfare Symposium 2018; Thinking Animals 2018, St. Catherines, Ontario and at the Explorer's Club, NYC  2019.  She lives and works in New York.

More about the artist : HERE