Miya Ando

Miya Ando is a minimalist metalworker; employing steel and pigment to create quiet, meditative environments. Working solely in two-dimensional metal panels, she combines tranquility with strength that results in landscape-like works of art made from traditional metalworking techniques.

steel, pigment, patina, lacquer12" x 12 "

steel, pigment, patina, lacquer12 " x 12 "

"My reasons for working with steel are multifold. It is dynamic, having the ability to simultaneously convey strength and permanence while remaining delicate, soft, fragile, luminous and ethereal. Metaphorically, steel's physicality can evoke steadfast truths, steel's reflective surface gives it an elusive quality that I utilize to invoke ideas about universality and evanescence - the transitory and ephemeral qualities of nature, quietude, and the underlying impermanence of all things."

- Miya Ando