Lion's Roar Foundation – 7th Annual Shambhala Sun Foundation Auction
Auction Ends: Dec 10, 2013 11:59 PM EST

Art

Miya Ando: "Ephemeral Meditation Blue" Original Painting

Item Number
274
Estimated Value
2200 USD
Sold
900 USD to gdfenton
Number of Bids
1  -  Bid History

Item Description

 

Miya Ando is an American artist whose high profile public commissions and unique artwork have been called ‘A Must See’ by the New York Times. She spoke recently with Shambhala Sun editor Andrea Miller about her work.

Ethnically half Japanese and half Russian, Ando is a descendant of Bizen sword makers and was raised in a Buddhist temple in Japan and in coastal Northern California. She has continued her 16th generation Japanese sword smithing and Buddhist lineage by combining metals, reflectivity and light in her transcendent paintings and sculpture. In 2011 she completed two memorial sculptures for the 9/11 in which she utilized 30 foot tall pieces of steel which had fallen from the World Trade Center Buildings.

Ando’s work is has been exhibited in galleries throughout Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Paris, Berlin, Austraila and Tokyo. Miya’s public commissions include projects in South Korea, London, New York and California. Her work appears in many important public and private collections and she is the recipient of the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant in 2012, the Thanatopolis Special Artist Award and Public Outdoor Commission Winner and Puffin Foundation Grant winner. She received her Bachelor of Science Magna Cum Laude in East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley and continued her studies at Yale University, in addition to serving as an apprentice to a master metal smith in Japan.

Medium: Pigment, Dye, Lacquer, Resin on Aluminum Plate

Date: 2013

Dimensions: 12" x 12"

 

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