Miya Ando Press from The Stranger and Ibuki Magazine

Miya Ando interviewed in Ibuki Magazine

“The diminutive artist wields heavy machinery to bring out a Zenlike quality in the steel. Her art transforms steel in ways never seen before, whether she’s dipping aluminum blocks into big vats of dye for her Chado exhibit at Gallery ArtXchange in Pioneer Square this fall or polishing and refining a horribly twisted piece of the World Trade Center.”

 

 

Read Miya Ando: Steel Like Sky by Jen Graves in the Stranger

“Behind Ando’s works, there’s a tension that comes from the paradox of strength that the stronger you are, the less likely you’ll have to fight—and maybe even that the sharper the blade, the less pain when it goes in.”