Dr. Kitty Yin Ling Miao is a scholar specialized in ancient Chinese bone and turtle script (sometimes called shell and bone script). She is a poet and an artist
renowned for her unique style integrating Chinese calligraphic techniques and pictorial painting to create vibrant living sketches of animal life. She studied at St. Martin's College of Art and Greeniich University.
Born in Hong Kong in 1947 and now a resident of
San Francisco, Dr. Miao has traveled to many countries
around the world in pursuit of her artistic goals.
Chinese calligraphy and pictorial painting are usually integrated harmoniously in a finished work and are appreciated by experienced art lovers. Calligraphy strokes are as important as those used to create the picture itself, and generally embody a poetic or philosophical concept which forms an essential part of the artistic whole.
Yin Ling Miao has developed her own unique style of thisi art, applying the calligraphic techniques to create vibrantly living sketches of animal life. She executes these so expertly and quickly that to onlookers the sketched animal simply seems to appear suddenly and soundlessly from the wild.
Her diverse artistic instincts and life experiences have been channeled into her service as a counselor and an art therapist in an acute crisis facility in San Francisco. She has a passion for archaelogy and anthropology, and participated in the Leon Levy Ashkelon Excavations conducted in Israel by the Semitic Museum of Harvard University.
American artist Stanley Walter Galli has said of Kitty Yin Ling Miao:
"Like a brain surgeon, the hand of the artist
had to be trained to be rock-solid and to follow
the dictates of the mind unswervingly. However,
unlike the brain surgeon, she had to develop a mind
that invented new paths that a simple stroke of
the brush would follow. That brush stroke had to
characterize the image in the simplest terms possible
and to be instanty recogniizable. It is a difficult
art that often demands that fifty drawings [or more]
are thrown away before arriving at a satisfactory
result. Further, that brush stroke or strokes would
be designed to have a variation of tonality that
occupies the space in a highly esthetic way. More
can be said about this rare talent but suffice it
to say that the artist has been required to spend
years of intense developement that really never
ends."
| Milestones: |
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| 1947 |
Born
in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong |
| 1963 |
Studied at the Institute of Art, Lincolnshire, England |
| 1964-67 |
B.A., St. Martin's College of Art, London, England |
| 1968 |
Graduated Studies, St. Martin's College of Art, London, England |
| 1979-86 |
Intense study of Chinese calligraphy from ancient to moderm scripts |
| 1987-89 |
Bilingual counselor, Courtland House (Progress Foundation — Innovative Mental Health Services), San Francsico |
| 1993-97 |
M.A. and Ph.D., Greenich University, Hilo, Hawaii |
| 1994 |
Asian Staff Hiring Consultant, Progress Foundation, San Francisco |
| 1999-2001 |
Consultant in Art, Aesthetics and Archaeology, Culture Regeneration Research Society, Burnaby, B.C., Canada |
| Projects
& Exhibits: |
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| 1981 |
Solo exhibition, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco |
| 1981 |
Feature television presentation, KPIX Evening News |
| 1982 |
Work Cheetah acquired for permanent collection of Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (The Foundation houses paintings by such artist as Günter Grass, William Wiley,
Joan Miró, Morris Graves and Pablo Picasso, and as well as older works by Rembrandt, Dürer, Van Gogh and other masters.) |
| 1983 |
Work Cheetah included in exhibition, "Recent Acquisitions of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Part II (1940 - Present)," California Palace of Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco |
| 1983 |
Feature television presentation, CBS Evening Magazine |
| 1984 |
Work entitled Saint Francis of Assisi acquired by the Ecological Center, Assisi, Italy |
| 1984 |
Solo exhibition at Cultural Center, Assisi, Italy |
| 1985-90 |
Represented by:
The Curwen Gallery, London, England
Gallerie d'Art au Viieux Villeneuve, Switzerland
Landell Galleries, Carmel, California |
| 1990-93 |
Represented by Espacio Gallery, Larkspur, California |
| 1991-94 |
Semi-permanent exhibition at Saybrook Institute, San Francisco |
| 1993-94 |
Represented by:
Galerie Hélène de Senneville, Gran Baie, Mauritius |
| 1993 |
Limited edition, #9 of 15, stone lithograph Moonlight Sonata, acquired by Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, San Jose State University |
| 1995 |
Research and illustrations commissioned for forthcoming children's book entitled The Dragon and the Star (based on the story of the Jews in China) by Michael Pollak |
| 1996 |
United Nations International Women's Art Show, Fort Mason, San Francisco |
| 1996 |
One woman show, Berkeley Plaza Art Gallery, Oakland, California |
| 1996 |
Work acquired for permannent exhibition, Conference Room of Berkeley Plaza Art Gallery (Exotic Jews in Remote Places by Ken Blady), publication in conjunction with the Jerusalem Museum and the Judah Magnes Museum of Berkeley, California |
| 1997-2004 |
During this period, most art projects were put on hold, while Dr. Miao recovered from serious injuries sustained in multiple car accidents. |
| 1997 |
Calligraphic cariatures commissioned for The Blind Deer Hunter and Other Tales of South Africa (on South African mythology) by Cecil Hershler |
| 1997 |
Limited Edition, #1 of 25, stone lithograph Amazing Grace, acquired by Singapore Art Museum, Singapore |
| 1997 |
Work, mixed media Colours of the Heart, acquired by The Cat Cabinet, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 1997 |
Multicultural Art Exhibition, Vancouver, B.C., Canada |
| 1998 |
Work
entitled Chinese Jews Crossing the Gobi
Dessert, 1800, published on back cover
of Cultural China journal, Cultural
Regeneration Research Society, December 1998 |
| 1999 |
Works (including the poem "What Is Music?" and the lithograph Symphony) published in the Chinese-language book The Children Sing Along With Me by Diana Lee |
| 2003 |
Two poems ("Where Do You Find a Poem?" and "I know How to Laugh Wildly") and Bison painting published in Of the Heart, San Francisco, California: Marin Brain Injury Network, The Larkspur Center, 2003 edition |
| 2005 |
Collaboration with Keith Howell on children's book, Brush of the Cat |
| 2005 |
Collaboration with Orlando de Melo on Exotic Jewelry Design (including ancient coins, pearls, gold/silver beads and precious gems) |
| 2005-06 |
Collaboration
with Robert W. Lebling on the text of art book
"Mystic Brush 'An Artist Visualizes Exotic Jewish Communities of the Past'" |
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