The exhibition presents new paintings by New York-based artist Miya Ando (b. 1973, Los Angeles), centering on cloud formations captured in the evening hours. This is Ando’s first solo exhibition in Singapore since 2019.
Ando’s cloud works have been showcased in a number of museum exhibitions, including at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; The Noguchi Museum, New York; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where her 2016 painting Kumo (Cloud) 6 was acquired for the museum’s permanent collection. Most recently, her work was on view in the exhibition Earth and Sky at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona.
The artist’s cloud series is rooted in the Japanese concept mono no aware, which loosely translates as “an acute awareness of the transience of things,” a sentiment often linked to nature and the passage of time. For Ando, who was raised between two vastly different worlds—a Buddhist temple in Japan and the redwood forest of northern California—the cyclical nature of clouds and other elements in the natural world serve as a metaphor for impermanence and interdependence.
Venue: Sundaram Tagore Gallery, 5 Lock Road 01-05, Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108933
When: 13 Jan - 2 Mar 2024,
By: Sundaram Tagore Gallery Singapore
