Miya Ando: Transformative Energies : Kylin Gallery

Kylin Gallery is thrilled to announce its first curated exhibition of 2025. "Transformative Energies: Two-Dimensional Works by Yoshio Ikezaki, Miya Ando, and Joseph Akerman" features three artists and their respective approaches to depicting universal vital energy (Japanese: ki; Chinese: qi), with a Buddhist reverence for the transitory qualities of all things. These three artists sincerely appreciate one another's works and share a fascination with ki energy and the ephemerality and transitoriness that it enforces in the universe. The opening reception will be held at the gallery on March 22, between 3-6pm. Light refreshment will be served during the reception.

 Miya Ando is of American and Japanese heritage and grew up within both cultures. She brings to her art a deep understanding of Buddhism and its attitude toward the evanescence of life. With its delicate shades of seasonal change reflected in the tea ceremony, Japanese tea culture weighs heavily in her art. Ando works with hand-made washi (Japanese paper) from the island of Shikoku, Japanese indigo, and pure Japanese silver in her works on paper. In this exhibition, Ando's washi works evoke moon phases, stars, clouds, rain, and ocean waves. Descended from an elite line of swordsmiths, Ando took up metalwork early in her career and continues to print and patinate on alucore metal for her "Cloud" series, represented in this exhibition.