Walasse Ting left China a year after W.W. II ended, settled in Europe, and then moved to New York in 1957. By the time he got there he’d already painted with the experimental European CoBrA group (Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, and Asger Jorn among them). Ting gravitated naturally toward Abstract Expressionism and Pop art, and became famous for his evocative and playful paintings of nude women, who inhabited vibrant worlds populated by cats and parrots. In fact, Ting spent a lot of time in South Florida visiting his in-laws. Parrot Jungle, a wildlife park not far from them, was a place of continuing fascination. He brought his camera, his pencils, and spent hours documenting the movement of birds. Ting died in 2010. This exhibition explores his signature motifs. —Elena Clavarino