Miya Ando's work continues to astonish and herself to inspire. She recently began a new series of steel canvases titled "Luminous Transcendent" which are, in fact, luminous in the dark. Here is a little video of the transition:
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Her recent commission from Anthony Butler, executive director of St. John's Bread and Life, a Bedford-Stuyvescent pantry and community center in Brooklyn, NY for a piece made up of 144 4-inch hand-finished steel tiles arranged in a grid on a wall in the center's nondenominational chapel has garnered notice from the New York press.
And in a wonderful project for Indigo Youth Movement, a non-profit organization that provides an after-school feeding program and organic garden for children in Isithumba village in South Africa. Ando has donated all proceeds from the sale of dedicated works on her website to provide art supplies and books for the children and has raised over $2500 so far. An amazing project with rewards far beyond the material.
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photograph courtesy Huck magazine.
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