Lady in Pink 1992

Walasse Ting made ‘Lady in Pink’ using juicy strokes of acrylic paint. Just look at the way the pinks and purples swim together, creating a vibrant haze. I imagine Ting, brush in hand, circling the canvas, lost in a reverie of color and form. He’s conjuring a space where figuration and abstraction dance, and the ‘Lady’ comes into being. What does her turquoise eyeshadow mean? And those lime green sprigs? Are they flowers, or just joyous outbursts of pure color? Notice how the texture varies—thick impasto in the hat, thin washes in the background. Each mark feels immediate, intuitive. The confident strokes and bold color combinations remind me a little of Matisse, but with a wilder, more expressionistic energy. Ting's paintings create a kind of visual poetry, where meaning emerges not from precise representation but from the sheer pleasure of seeing. These paintings remind me that art-making is an adventure and an exchange of ideas across time. They encourage us to embrace the messy, the uncertain, and the ambiguous.