Miya Ando TASOGARE/TWILIGHT

Miya Ando TASOGARE/TWILIGHT (The Time of Moonlight, Sunlight & Starlight)

September 8 – October 27, 2016

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Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle is proud to announce Tasogare/Twilight (The Time of Moonlight, Sunlight and Starlight), our premiere solo exhibition with painter Miya Ando. The title Tasogare is the Japanese word for twilight, the time of day when sunlight, moonlight and starlight work together to transform the sky. She peacefully focuses our attention on the moment at hand, and reminds us that all time is in transition and temporal. Ando pays homage to her Japanese heritage of sword making and Buddhism, creating meditative landscapes on metal, using dye, urethane and resin. The careful selection of these materials allows Ando to produce pieces, which shift in the light, changing with each angle and viewer.

Miya Ando received a bachelor degree in East Asian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley and attended Yale University to study Buddhist iconography and imagery. Ando is the recipient of many awards, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2012. Her work has been exhibited extensively all over the world, including a recent show curated by Nat Trotman of the Guggenheim Museum. Miya Ando has produced numerous public commissions, most notably a thirty-foot tall commemorative sculpture in London built from World Trade Center steel which is installed permanently at Zaha Hadid’s Aquatic Centre in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. Her large-scale installation piece ‘Emptiness the Sky’ (Shou Sugi Ban) is featured in the 56th Venice Biennale, in the ‘Frontiers Reimagined’ Exhibition at the Museo Di Palazzo Grimani.

The artist will be in attendance for the September 8th opening reception, from 6-8pm.

Cover: Miya Ando, Blue Light, 2016, Dye on aluminum panel, 48 x 48 inches Opposite: Tasogare Twilight Blue Purple, Tasogare Twilight Green, Tasogare Twilight Yellow Vermillion, 2016 Dye and resin on aluminum panel, 36 x 36 inches each 206.652.5855

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Miya Ando Grey 2016 Dye on aluminum panel 49 x 49 inches

Miya Ando Ephemeral Faint Blue 2016 Dye on aluminum 49 x 49 inches

Miya Ando Gold Light 2016 Dye on aluminum panel 49 x 49 inches

Miya Ando Tasogare Twilight 2016 Dye on aluminum panel 48 x 48 inches

Miya Ando Hakkanai Fleeting Sabi Rust 2 2016 Dye pigment and resin on aluminum panel 36 x 36 inches

Miya Ando Hakkanai Fleeting Sabi Rust 2016 Dye pigment and resin on aluminum panel 36 x 36 inches

Miya Ando, Evening Shift Blue Lavender Pink, 2016, Pigment, urethane, aluminum, 48 x 72 inches

Miya Ando, Hamon 4.6.2, 2016, Pigment, urethane, aluminum, 48 x 72 inches

Miya Ando Blue Aqua 2016 Pigment, urethane, aluminum 48 x 48 inches

Miya Ando Hakkanai Fleeting (Sky Blue Emerald Green) 2016 Pigment, urethane, aluminum 48 x 48 inches

Miya Ando Urushi 2015 Pigment, urethane, resin, alumin 36 x 36 inches

Miya Ando Ao Kuro (Blue Black) diptych 2016 Pigment, urethane, resin, aluminum 48 x 48 inches

Miya Ando Education Certificate of Completion, Public Art Academy Northern California Apprentice to Master Metal Smith, Hattori Studio / Okayama Japan Yale University, East Asian Studies / New Haven CT UC Berkeley, East Asian Studies BS Magna Cum Laude / Berkeley CA Phi Beta Kappa, Dean’s List

Select Solo Exhibitions 2015 Sky/Emptiness (Sora/Ku) Sundaram Tagore Gallery Hong Kong Sky/Emptiness (Sora/Ku) Sundaram Tagore Gallery Singapore Evenings, Madison Galleries, La Jolla, California 2014 Outside Looking In, Lesley Kehoe Galleries, Melbourne, Australia Fleeting Light, Narthex Gallery Saint Peter’s Church, New York Kisetsu (Seasons), Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York Aurora, Mead Carney Fine Art, London Light Metal, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong Cloud-Like Pattern, Lora Schlesinger, Los Angeles 2013 Tides & The Phases of the Moon, K Imperial Gallery, San Francisco Mujo (Impermanence), Sundaram Tagore Gallery, NYC Transformations, Martin Asbaek Gallery & Bang Olufsen, Copenhagen Miya Ando, Dixten Les Docks, Paris 2012 Meditations, Madison Galleries, La Jolla CA 2011 The Color of Light, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica CA Elements, Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, Tokyo Reflections, Shibuya Seibu Artspace, Tokyo Chado: The Way of Tea, Artxchange Gallery, Seattle 2010 Shinobu, de Castallane Gallery, Brooklyn NY Meditations, Art Ecology Gallery, Louisville KY Small Meditative Works, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica CA 2009 Luminous Transcendent, Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto CA Next Post: 18 Solo Projects, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark NJ

2008

2007

Vanishing Point of Departures, Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley ID Revelation and Reflection, Bandini Art Gallery, Culver City CA Introspective Environments, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art Museum, Staten Island Miya Ando, Edith Caldwell Gallery, Sausalito CA Miya Ando, Galerie Sho, Tokyo Japan

Select Group Exhibitions 2016 de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University 2015 Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong Winter Group Show Miya Ando & Karen Gunderson, 212 Gallery, Aspen Colorado Summer Group Show Winston Wachter Seattle Little Piece, ‘Tsuru No Ongaeshi’, Video Installation, Custom House, Ireland Do You See What I see, Nova Gallery, Manila Philippines Vantage Points curated by Sarah Campbell, Memorial Sloan Kettering, NYC Samurai In Contemporary Culture, Worcester Art Museum Frontiers Reimagined, 2015 56th Venice Biennale, Exhibition, Museo Di Palazzo Grimani 2014 Night Light, Fresh Windows Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Summer Group Show, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York Current Projects at Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto 2013 Wutang Exhibition, Wallplay NYC Unseen, Cult Exhibitions, San Francisco All Of The Above, Church of St Paul The Apostle, New York Surface Tension, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum & Wave Hill, New York, NY 8 Stories, 8 Women, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong Limuw: An Ode To The Sea, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum Thinking Like The Universe, K Imperial Gallery, San Francisco & Hatch Gallery, Oakland 2012 Timekeeper, The Hermitage, St Petersburg & IMAL Brussels, Archives of the Ephemeral: Ten Artistic Interventions in Nature, Sagrado Corazon University, Puerto Rico Installation 1, Sundaram Tagore Gallery NYC Art Meets New York, Shibuya Seibu Gallery, Galerie Sho, Tokyo Stories To Wake Up With, The Market Studios, Dublin, Ireland Kunstfilmtag, Language Is The House We Live In, Auditorium of the Artists Association Malkasten, Düsseldorf

2011

2010

2009 2008

2007

Perspectives, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York Wa: The Art of Japan, Gensler Art Gallery, San Francisco The Cutting Light, Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris France Wide Open, BWAC, Red Hook, NY / Curated by Nate Trotman, Guggenheim Sweetcake Enso Travelling Zendo Exhibition, Empty Hand Zendo New Rochelle, NY Village Zendo Diversity in Dialogue, Muriel Guepin Gallery, Brooklyn NY The Art of Light, Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, Berlin Germany Hypothetical Landscapes, Janet Kurnatowski , Brooklyn NY Out of the Blue, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro MA Places and Manners of Worship, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Greece Theme of Compassion, ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle, WA Lack of Desire, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY Duopolis, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA Distilled Moments, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA New Wave Contemporary, Galerie Sho, Tokyo, Japan Homo Bellicus, A Geneology of War, Berlin, Germany Director’s Selection, Edith Caldwell Gallery, Sausalito CA

Selected Public Art 2016 Nippon Club, Tohoku Memorial Installation “Meditation Room” 2015 Ascension Leaves & Bodhi (Ficus Religiosa Leaf Mandala, Montefiore Hospital Lobby Public Commission, Bronx, NYC Painting Installation, Lobby Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NYC Since 911, Public Memorial Sculpture installed permanently at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Zaha Hadid Aquatic Centre, London Collaboration with Calvin Klein Home, Collective Design Fair, NYC Evenings, Memorial Sloan Kettering Art Program, Cancer Center NYC 2014 Obon, The Queens Museum, Hudson River Narthex Chapel Installation, Saint Peter’s Church NYC 2012 Obon: Puerto Rico, Fist Art Foundation, outdoor commission, Puerto Rico

2011

2010

2009

Obon: Temple, Haein Art Project, public outdoor commission, Haeinsa Buddhist Temple, South Korea Reflectivity, September 11th Memorial Sculpture made from a 24” piece of World Trade Center Steel, for CalFire California Fire Department.

After 9/11, September 11th Memorial Sculpture, created from 30 foot pieces of World Trade Center Steel, London UK Quietness, Non Denominational Chapel, San Francisco General Hospital, CA Obon [Meditation 1-8], Thanatopolis Outdoor Memorial Sculpture, Norwalk, CT Sakura Reichstag, temporary outdoor installation, invisible luminous paint on snow / Berlin, Germany Shelter [Meditation 1-12], 40’ installed, The Healing Place Non-denominational Chapel Woman’s Shelter / Louisville, KY 8-Fold Path, Against The Stream Buddhist Meditation Society, Los Angeles, CA Let There Be Light, St. John’s Bread & Life Non-denominational Chapel, New York, NY

Awards and Recognition 2015 Shortlist Best Light Art Award, 9/11 Memorial Sculpture, London. Darc Award 56th Venice Biennale, “Frontiers Reimagined” Exhibition, Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Italy Shortlist Marsh Award for Best Public Sculpture, 9/11 Memorial London Invited to The White House to meet Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Washington DC 2014 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York “Spark Talks” Lecture 2012 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Award Blooom Art Award Finalist, Germany 2010 Thanatopolis Special Artist Award and Public Outdoor Commission Winner Puffin Foundation Grant Award Winner 2009 Element: Public Ambassador, Element Eden Advocate

Back cover: Miya Ando, White Grid, 2016, Dye on aluminum panel, 96 x 96 inches