Miya Ando: selected works

Miya Ando Selected Works

Winston W채chter Fine Art

Seattle

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Miya Ando: selected works July 16 – September 4, 2015 Opening Reception with Artist: ursday, July 16, 6 – 8 pm Miya Ando is an American artist whose metal canvases and sculpture articulate themes of contradiction and juxtaposition of ideas. e foundation of Ando’s practice is the transformation of surfaces. A descendant of Bizen sword makers, she was raised among sword smiths and Buddhist priests in a temple in Okayama, Japan. Applying traditional techniques of her ancestry, she skillfully transforms sheets of burnished industrial steel, using heat and chemicals, into ephemeral abstractions suffused with subtle gradations of color. She says: “I have a deep appreciation for the dynamic properties of metal and its ability to reflect light. Metal simultaneously conveys strength and permanence and yet in the same instant can appear delicate, fragile, luminous, soft, ethereal. e medium becomes both a contradiction and juxtaposition for expressing notions of evanescence, including ideas such as the transitory and ephemeral nature of all things, quietude and the underlying impermanence of everything.”

Most recently, Ando has furthered her exploration of transformation using Bodi Skeletal leaves, the sacred leaves found in Buddhist monasteries, symbolizing enlightenment. e leaves are bleached, dyed, and carefully woven into delicate mandalas, in the meditative manner they are meant to represent.

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.

Cover: Miya Ando, Transformation Gold, mixed media, 36 x 36 inches

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Miya Ando, Cerulean Leaf, 2015, mixed media, 43 x 43 inches

Miya Ando, Ephemeral Blue, mixed media, 36 x 36 inches

Miya Ando, Hamon 6, mixed media, 36 x 36 inches

Miya Ando, Charcoal Leaf Mandala, 2015, mixed media, 41 x 41 inches 203 Dexter Avenue North, Seattle WA 98109 gallery@winstonwachter.com

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