Mimi Chen Ting: Ties Unbound

This week’s exhibitions stretch from Santa Monica to the Mojave — bound feet and abstract cords, grunge photography, visionary collecting, and art in the desert. At Nüart Gallery, Sunny Taylor’s Connections transforms the overlooked surfaces of the built environment into materially driven abstractions where repair operates as both process and metaphor. Louis Stern Fine Arts presents Ties Unbound, tracing the evolution of Chinese American artist Mimi Chen Ting from semi-autobiographical figuration to the meandering abstract forms of her Tangles and Ties series, where sinuous cords visualize the conflicting obligations of identity and longing.