about the artist

Ting Huang is originally from Taiwan and she earned her master degree of art in 1998 from Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg Kansas. Working primarily in oils and acrylics, the painter exhibits an expressive approach. Using canvas as the foundation, she explores her inner qualities through understanding the nature and the characteristics of paint. After years of painting, she developed the method with the process of destroying and recreating to achieve the compositions. Throughout the years, the images of her works changed along with the growth of her learning and life experiences, which started with abstraction of buildings and architectures then evolved into non-objective paintings. Her work is visceral, emotive in nuance and unreserved. Ting Huang is currently residing in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Artist Statement

The Journey of painting at this point of my life is showing lots of non-objective images that seem like city or bird view landscapes. I pondered for the answer and it came to my realization that it is a result of the creative process that involved me to observe and understand my unconscious approaches with paint on canvas. While working, I knowingly ask myself to experience the condition of no constraint, I construct and de-construct with paints, and my ways, habits, and disciplines form throughout the period of time in reflection of my personality and cultural background.

Always work on multiple canvases at the same time, I paint lines and shapes with impulsive and intuitive progression and keep building the paint up layer upon layer. I learn different characters and qualities of paint and experiment with methods such as brushing, scrabbling, spattering, dripping, spraying, engraving and smearing. I explore “happenings” and welcome “accidents” until a composition emerges. Color is a key element for me to compose the “shocking” images that communicate emotions and connect the viewers at the visual realm. I push to experiment color combinations without boundaries. I search for the conversations of colors in daily life and put in my own visual language to create more possibilities.

I work on the canvas intensively for a period of time, and then visually study it for a period of time, observe the composition and interact with the mind. A problem solving process begins at this point. I seek to reserve the areas that exhibit a striking effect to my visual perception, then re-construct and strive to achieve a new, extreme, and unbalance map that creates a dynamic energy. The pattern of action and non-action continue until I enter a “zone”. A “frequency” that is between consciousness and unconsciousness mind; A reality where human beings translate thoughts, memory, and inner emotions into visual images. This has become the main practice in my work. When the visual effects of color and form evolve into a “whole” with balance, it becomes a final image.

The energy that sustains the creative process is a reflection of human sentiments in reality. Recreating and destroying became a therapeutic way for me to absorb and express, to provoke and to let go. I perceive my own inner qualities through a different dimension and learn to accept and celebrate them. Following what I believe is natural, welcome the challenges, enjoy the struggles and always be true to myself. My working process has established a far more meaningful significance than the final images I create. It is an approach that I am fulfilling to embrace my inner ego through the creative experiences.