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Miya Ando

Aki Wa Yuugure (In Autumn, The Evening)

October 13 – November 12, 2022

Tasogare (Twilight) June 4 2022, 2022, ink, mica, pure micronized silver, resin and urethane on aluminum composite, 50 x 50 inches/127 x 127 cm
Tasogare (Twilight) June 2 2022 8:23 PM, 2022, ink, mica, pure micronized silver, resin and urethane on aluminum composite, 50 x 50 inches/127 x 127 cm
Tasogare (Twilight) June 3 2022 8:24 PM, 2022, ink, mica, pure micronized silver, resin and urethane on aluminum composite, 50 x 50 inches/127 x 127 cm
Tasogare (Twilight) June 6 2022 8:26 PM, 2022, ink, mica, pure micronized silver, resin and urethane on aluminum composite, 50 x 50 inches/127 x 127 cm
Tasogare (Twilight) June 7 2022 8:26 PM, 2022, ink, mica, pure micronized silver, resin and urethane on aluminum composite, 50 x 50 inches/127 x 127 cm
Tasogare (Twilight) June 1 2022 7:48 PM NYC, 2022, dye, micronized pure silver, pigment and resin on aluminum, 55 x 124 inches/139.7 x 315 cm
Tasogare (Twilight) June 20 2022 8:32 PM, 2022, dye, micronized pure silver, pigment and resin on aluminum, 48 x 96 inches/122 x 244 cm
Tasogare (Twilight) June 15 2022 8:49 PM, 2022, ink, mica, pure micronized silver, resin and urethane on aluminum composite, 50 x 50 inches/127 x 127 cm
Yuugure (Evening) June 11 2022 8:34 PM, 2022, ink, mica, pure micronized silver, resin and urethane on aluminum composite, 50 x 50 inches/127 x 127 cm
Yuugure (Evening) Diptych July 2 2022 8:08 PM, 2022, ink, mica, pure micronized silver, resin and urethane on aluminum composite, 50 x 100 inches/127 x 254 cm
Yuugure Triptych July 3 2022 8:02 PM, 2022, micronized pure silver, pigment and urethane on aluminum, 48 x 180 inches/122 x 457.2 cm
Yuugure (Evening) June 13 2022 8:30 PM, 2022, ink, mica, pure micronized silver, resin and urethane on aluminum composite, 50 x 50 inches/127 x 127 cm
Tasogare (Twilight) June 5 2022 8:25 PM, 2022, ink, mica, pure micronized silver, resin and urethane on aluminum composite, 50 x 50 inches/127 x 127 cm
Yuugure (Evening) June 10 2022 8:38 PM, 2022, ink, mica, pure micronized silver, resin and urethane on aluminum composite, 50 x 50 inches/127 x 127 cm
Yuugure (Evening) June 8 2022 8:28 PM, 2022, ink, mica, pure micronized silver, resin and urethane on aluminum composite, 50 x 50 inches/127 x 127 cm
Yuugure (Evening) June 9 2022 8:29 PM, 2022, ink, mica, pure micronized silver, resin and urethane on aluminum composite, 50 x 50 inches/127 x 127 cm
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About This Exhibition

We are pleased to present new paintings on metal by New York-based artist Miya Ando whose work was recently the subject of solo exhibitions at The American University Museum in Washington DC and The Noguchi Museum in New York. The luminous works on aluminum center on fugitive imagery of clouds in twilight hours of dusk.
 
Ando has achieved critical acclaim for her visceral paintings and large-scale installations that articulate transient, intangible aspects of the natural world. Her previous public projects include Sora Versailles, 2018, for which she shrouded an iconic Miami building in mesh printed with sunset-hued clouds and Ginga (The Silver River in the Sky), 2019, a sheer star-speckled banner suspended on metal stilts stretching 200 feet in length in Socrates Sculpture Park, New York.
 
Her latest body of work comes on the heels of her recent series of 1,200 indigo-infused moon drawings that she began during lockdown, creating a pandemic almanac of sorts. Her new series—Tasogare (Twilight) and Yuugure (Evening)—form a compendium of images recording specific moments of time just before light is extinguished. 

 

Working from photographs of particular cloud formations chronicling precise moments in time, Ando uses watercolor-like techniques to layer translucent washes of ink and pigment mixed with urethane on metal canvases. Leaving some areas bare, she allows the reflective metal to shine amid passages of muted color creating a sense of depth and movement. In many works she also embeds micronized pure silver, a fine dust-like material, which adds further sheen.
 
The Tasogare (Twilight) series is rooted in the Japanese concept mono-no-aware which is commonly translated as “the pathos of things,” a bittersweet sentiment often linked to nature and the passing of time. “It’s a wistful recognition of a fleeting moment but I don’t see it in a nihilistic sense where everything is impermanent including myself. It’s more an appreciation and awareness of the present moment,” says Ando. “My thought process behind chronicling changes in the environment stems from a yearning to pay homage to and to be connected to the natural world.”

 

Meanwhile, the Yuugure (Evening) series was inspired by a quote from the tenth-century Japanese court lady Sei Shonagon who equates, in The Pillow Book, each season with a moment in the day connecting evening with autumn, one of the most ephemeral seasons of the year. Ando was drawn to the evocative connection between the two systems of time.
 
Since childhood, Ando has been fascinated by the natural world. Though she was raised in a Buddhist temple in Okayama, Japan, she was also exposed to Shintoism (the native religion of Japan) which deifies nature. Ando has vivid memories of her grandmother observing the 72 micro seasons of the Japanese lunar calendar noticing what flowers were in bloom and wearing kimonos corresponding to the surrounding landscape. While this practice is now obsolete, the idea of being deeply attuned to nature left a lasting impression.
 
Ando selected metal as a support for her paintings for its ability to transform depending on the time of day or the angle from which it is viewed. “As a material it’s visceral and experiential—it captures and communicates transitoriness,” says the artist, whose interest in metal stems from an early encounter in Okayama. She remembers her grandfather, who was the head priest of the temple, chanting sutras in the hondo (main hall) at a black-lacquer altar adorned with gold leaf, materials that were luminescent under candlelight. Ever since, she’s been fascinated by metal’s ability to capture and reflect light.

Ando later moved to Northern California where her family settled in a remote redwood forest. As a young girl, she recalls searching for similarities between Japan and the U.S., which appeared worlds apart. She found common threads in nature, which gave her solace then as it continues to do today. Ando’s art is in essence a celebration of universality and connection: “I like the idea that anyone can look up in the sky and the clouds belong to us all.”

 

ABOUT THE ARTIST


Born in Los Angeles in 1973, Miya Ando is a multidisciplinary American artist who is widely recognized for her atmospheric paintings and large-scale installations exploring fleeting natural phenomena.

Ando’s work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Asia Society Texas Center, Houston; Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Savannah; and The Noguchi Museum, New York. She has produced numerous public commissions worldwide including a sculpture built from World Trade Center steel installed in London’s Olympic Park on the ten-year anniversary of 9/11.

Ando has been the recipient of several grants and awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and was commissioned to create artwork for Philip Johnson’s Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut. Her work is included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Detroit Institute of Arts; the Corning Museum of Glass, New York; the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art as well as numerous notable private collections.

The artist holds a bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She has also undertaken East Asian studies at Yale and Stanford. A descendant of Bizen swordsmiths, Ando apprenticed with a master metalsmith in Japan.

MIYA ANDO AT THE SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM in Washington DC
Museum Exhibition
MIYA ANDO AT THE SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM in Washington DC

A glass sculpture by Miya Ando is on view in the exhibition New Glass Now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum from October 22, 2021 – March 6, 2022.

MIYA ANDO AT ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS
Museum Exhibition and Artist Talk
MIYA ANDO AT ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS

Miya Ando’s work is in the solo exhibition Form Is Emptiness, Emptiness Is Form November 16, 2019, to March 29, 2020.

On November 16, 2019, Ando will give an artist talk about the inspiration she draws from the Buddhist text, the Heart Sutra, and how it relates to her studio processes working with elemental materials such as wood, metal and light.

 

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Bentonville, Arkansas
Museum Exhibition
Bentonville, Arkansas
MIYA ANDO AT THE CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART

Miya Ando's work will be on view in Crystals in Art: Ancient to Today, alongside work by Andy Warhol, Marina Abramovic, Ai Weiwei, Alexis Arnold, Olafur Eliasson, Cindy Sherman and more. On view Oct. 12 – Jan. 6, 2020.

Roslyn Harbor, New York
Museum Exhibition
Roslyn Harbor, New York
MIYA ANDO AT THE NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART

Work by Miya Ando will be on view alongside paintings and installations from Kandinsky, Motherwell, Frankenthaler and Warhol in True Colors. The show celebrates color as a powerful form of expression and includes more than one hundred richly saturated works that span a century. On view July 21 – Nov. 4, 2018.

New York
Museum Exhibition
New York
MIYA ANDO AT THE NOGUCHI MUSEUM

Two site-specific plate-glass sculptures internally etched with images of clouds are on view in Miya Ando: Clouds in the museum’s indoor-outdoor gallery April 25 – August 19, 2018. Click here for info.

Washington, DC
Museum Exhibition
Washington, DC
MIYA ANDO AT THE KATZEN ARTS CENTER, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY MUSEUM

Work by gallery artist Miya Ando is on view in Kumo: Miya Ando. On view April 3 – May 27, 2018

 

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Work by Miya Ando and Hiroshi Senju at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum Exhibition
Work by Miya Ando and Hiroshi Senju at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Work by gallery artists Miya Ando and Hiroshi Senju is on view in Atmosphere in Japanese Painting, from September 15, 2017 – February 4, 2018.

 

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Georgia
Museum Exhibition
Georgia
MIYA ANDO AT THE SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN

Work by Miya Ando is on view in the solo exhibition Temporal August 17, 2017 to February 4, 2018.

 

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North Salem, New York
Museum Exhibition
North Salem, New York
MIYA ANDO AT THE HAMMOND MUSEUM

Work by Miya Ando is on view in the solo exhibition Inspirations 2017 June 14 – September 16, 2017.

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