Miya Ando Stanoff

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Miya Ando Stanoff BS

Miya Ando Stanoff is a minimalist metalworker; employing steel and pigment to create quiet, meditative environments. Working solely in two-dimensional metal panels, she is ultimately interested in the study of subtraction to the point of purity, simplicity and refinement.

Miya seeks to draw out the natural beauty and elegance in steel through use of subtle shades of silver and grays in her steel canvases. She uses traditional metal finishing methods such as grinding, sanding, patinas, and the application of heat. She also works with solvents, acids and metal-based pigments to create the varied textures and surfaces on her pieces. In her work, she explores such themes as solitude, nothingness, tranquility and the transitory nature of things.

Miya is a graduate of UC Berkeley and attended Yale University where she studied East Asian Buddhist Iconography. Half-Japanese and half-Russian, she was raised bilingually and in two cultures, living both in her family's Buddhist temple in Japan and in Northern California. She comes from a tradition of metalworking, as she is the descendant of Bizen sword maker Ando Yoshiro Masakatsu. Her work appears in over 100 private and public collections, both nationally and abroad. She is currently based in the San Francisco Bay area.

美夜・安藤・スタノフは金属のミニマルアート芸術家であり、鋼鉄を用い静寂に満ち、瞑想的な世界を創り出している。精神的世界を表現するために、金属パネルを用い、彼女がアートを通して目指しているのは、無限大の純粋さ、シンプルさ、精錬さに到達することである。ミヤ・安藤は、本来鋼鉄の持つ、自然美と優雅さを、銀のもたらすわずかな陰影と鋼鉄のキャンバスのもたらす濃淡を用いて表現している。作品の中では溶剤、酸、金属絵の具を用いて、さまざまな質感と表情を創り出している。ミヤ・安藤はカリフォルニア大学バークレー校を首席で卒業し、イェール大学院では東南アジア仏教図像学を学んだ。日本とロシアの血を引き、アメリカ、日本と二つの文化の中で育ち、新鋭アーテイストとして国内外で活躍している。現在はサンフランシスコ在住。