Miya Ando "Shinobu"
de Castallane Gallery
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Core Formula, deCastallane Gallery and Element Skateboards presents Miya Ando's Shinobu [perserverance].
Miya Ando is a metal-finishing artist who creates layered finishes on steel with a process she invented, utilizing fire, acid and automotive lacquer. She will be showing large-scale steel works for the first time, the show is entitled Shinobu [perserverance] on October 7 at de Castellane Gallery. Her show will be comprised of large scale steel wall works and her series of hot-rolled steel skateboards, monotypes created by skateboarding on liquid graphite-coated paper.
The steel skateboards are an exact size/thickness replica of a traditional wood skateboard, hand finished with fire, acid, patina and automotive lacquer. Ando will also be showing a hot-rolled steel 36" x 48" x 72" skateboard ramp sculpture, a collaborative piece (skateboarding on ramp by Shelter Serra). The sculpture will be etched by muriatic acid-coated skateboard wheels ridden on the ramp and hand finished by Ando.
Finally, she will be creating and showing monotypes created as an interactive performance piece on the skate ramp. She invites skateboarders to participate in this interactive piece by riding on a paper-covered with graphite on a wood skateboard ramp. The skateboarders will help her to create individual, unique monotype prints on paper which will be signed by the artist and available for purchase.
Miya Ando show statement:
“I spent part of my childhood in a buddhist temple in japan and when i was not there i was living in the redwoods in santa cruz. i grew up around skateboarding - it's in my heart, it is a culture i have always respected and an activity i have regarded as true and pure.” Miya Ando, Brooklyn New York 2010
The large ramp/sculpture, the monoprints, as well as skateboards will be sold during the opening with a portion of the proceeds to benefit Elemental Awareness, a nonprofit program which educates and inspires young people to develop self-esteem, social and environmental awareness and the tools to lead successful lives.
The show is sponsored by Milgo Bufkin Steel and Fabrication, Greg Brewer and Diatom Winery, and Element Skateboards & Element Eden.
Miya Ando Artist Statement: In my work, I create quiet, abstract, meditative environments with metal. Ultimately I am interested in the study of subtraction to the point of purity, simplicity and refinement.
I am Japanese and Russian, a descendant of Bizen swordmaker Ando Yoshiro Masakatsu and was raised among sword smiths-turned Buddhist priests in a Buddhist temple in Okayama, Japan. My spiritual, familial, and academic experiences deeply inform every aspect of my work.
Recently my work has combined 2D and 3D pieces into installations of transformative minimal spaces and environments. These contemplative, luminous voids are at once empty and serene, while also alive, filled with potential and possibility. In these new installations, I invite the viewer into a meditative space, and it is my hope that these spaces inspire introspection, reflection and solace. I am currently working on large-scale public and private commissions for nondenominational and meditative spaces, having completed nondenominational chapels in Brooklyn, New York as well as Louisville, Kentucky, and a Buddhist meditation space in Los Angeles. My intention is to put forth quiet and transcendent environments which come from a place of sincerity and compassion.
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Schedule
from October 07, 2010 to October 29, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-10-07 from 18:00 to 21:00