Ted Twine

Ted Twine has a very unique background and life experience, a fact that comes through in his art. An American born in Japan of mixed parentage—his father was African American and his mother Japanese—he grew up on military bases until middle school, living in Los Angeles and eventually attending UCLA, before spending several years in Asia that included six months on a spiritual journey in India. During that period, he spent time with enlightened yogis and personally witnessed “miracles.”
He was permanently affected by those encounters. His own spiritual growth over the years since has been the basis of his art, which attempts to draw viewers into sensing the nature of an expanded awareness.

After his first stay in Japan and India, Twine completed his Bachelor of Arts degree at UC Santa Barbara, then moved to San Francisco, where he began his serious art practice and day job as a teacher in the mid 70s. He returned to India and Japan early next decade, and had three solo exhibitions in Tokyo.

Twine's art is about the interplay of consciousness, perception and imagination. It gives no easy reading, yet offers opportunities for interpretation by viewers. It strives to actively balance color and visual force using shapes and ma...

UCLA
UC Santa Barbara. BA 1976

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 "Deep Flat Theory," Palos Verdes Art Center
2018 “Metaforms,” Los Angeles Harbor College Fine Arts Gallery, CA
2018 “String Theory,” Los Angeles Harbor College Fine Arts Gallery, CA
2008 “A Painter’s Prints,” Board Room Gallery, San Pedro, CA
2007 “Abstractors,” 2-person show, Transvagrant, Los Angeles, CA
1993 GH2 Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
1991 GH2 Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
1988 April Riddle Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 April Riddle Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1983 Gallery Mukai, Tokyo, Japan
Musashino Art University Gallery, Tokyo
American Center, Tokyo, Japan
1981 Gallery Te, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019 ”Local Notions,” Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
2019 “Index: Painting,” Transvagrant @ SoLA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 “Play,” Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
2015 “Sextet,” Transvagrant, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Winter Group Show, TransVagrant, Los Angeles, CA
2011 “Energy,” Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2010 “South Bay Focus,” Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
1988 “Revelations: Spiritual Art at the End of the Millenium,”Pacific Lutheran University Art Museum, Tacoma, WA