Opening Reception July 16, 6-8pm
Angelina Nasso Miya Ando - Kim Keever July 16 – September 5, 2015
Winston Wächter Fine Art
Seattle
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Angelina Nasso, Refuge on Land, 2015, oil on canvas, 68 x 78 inches
Angelina Nasso Space of Potentiality July 16 – September 5, 2015 Opening Reception with Artist: ursday, July 16, 6 – 8 pm Angelina Nasso's landscape paintings take us on a journey into the realm between realism and abstraction. She is inspired by the natural world, constellations, waterfalls, rock formations, plant life, but her paintings push beyond what we encounter everyday, creating spaces which encompass the energy of all of these elements. Nasso’s new series, Space of Potentiality, explores the boundaries between abstract and representational, the tangible and unknown. Physicist John Wheeler felt, “we are part of a universe that is a work in progress”. Nasso’s paintings visually express this process of expanding into oneself on multiple planes. ere is depth and immediacy in her work, which simultaneously pushes the paint forward, while melting away. Her thick layers of paint create stability, while fading into washes. is balancing between elements makes Nasso’s work familiar, yet fresh, lively yet tranquil. ere is a fluidity and cohesion to her work that makes each stroke seem part of the next, just as in nature. Nasso is an Australian New York based artist who has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, and is part of Tiffany & Co. corporate collection in Prague.
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Angelina Nasso, Twin Forces, 2015, oil on canvas, 69 x 50 inches
Angelina Nasso, Sympathetic Elements, 2015, oil on canvas, 68 x 78 inches
Angelina Nasso, Faith, 2014, oil on canvas, 30 x 27 inches
Angelina Nasso, Joy, 2014, oil on canvas, 30 x 27 inches
Angelina Nasso, Listen, 2014, oil on canvas, 68 x 76 inches
Miya Ando, Transformation Gold, mixed media, 36 x 36 inches
Miya Ando: selected works July 16 – September 5, 2015 Opening Reception with Artist: ursday, July 16, 6 – 8 pm Miya Ando is an American artist whose metal canvases and sculpture articulate themes of contradiction and juxtaposition of ideas. e foundation of Ando’s practice is the transformation of surfaces. A descendant of Bizen sword makers, she was raised among sword smiths and Buddhist priests in a temple in Okayama, Japan. Applying traditional techniques of her ancestry, she skillfully transforms sheets of burnished industrial steel, using heat and chemicals, into ephemeral abstractions suffused with subtle gradations of color. She says: “I have a deep appreciation for the dynamic properties of metal and its ability to reflect light. Metal simultaneously conveys strength and permanence and yet in the same instant can appear delicate, fragile, luminous, soft, ethereal. e medium becomes both a contradiction and juxtaposition for expressing notions of evanescence, including ideas such as the transitory and ephemeral nature of all things, quietude and the underlying impermanence of everything.” Most recently, Ando has furthered her exploration of transformation using Bodi Skeletal leaves, the sacred leaves found in Buddhist monasteries, symbolizing enlightenment. e leaves are bleached, dyed, and carefully woven into delicate mandalas, in the meditative manner they are meant to represent. Miya Ando received a bachelor degree in East Asian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley and attended Yale University to study Buddhist iconography and imagery. Ando is the recipient of many awards, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2012. Her work has been exhibited extensively all over the world, including a recent show curated by Nat Trotman of the Guggenheim Museum. Miya Ando has produced numerous public commissions, most notably a thirty-foot tall commemorative sculpture in London built from World Trade Center steel which is installed permanently at Zaha Hadid’s Aquatic Centre in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. Her large-scale installation piece ‘Emptiness the Sky’ (Shou Sugi Ban) is featured in the 56th Venice Biennale, in the ‘Frontiers Reimagined’ Exhibition at the Museo Di Palazzo Grimani.
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Miya Ando, Cerulean Leaf, 2015, mixed media, 43 x 43 inches
Miya Ando, Ephemeral Blue, mixed media, 36 x 36 inches
Miya Ando, Hamon 6, mixed media, 36 x 36 inches
Miya Ando, Charcoal Leaf Mandala, 2015, mixed media, 41 x 41 inches
Kim Keever, Abstract 5485, 2014, c-print, variable dimensions
Kim Keever: selected works July 16 – September 5, 2015 Opening Reception with Artist: ursday, July 16, 6 – 8 pm Trained as thermal engineer (having worked on several NASA projects), photographer Kim Keever fuses the images of his childhood fantasy with his knowledge of science and physics. His exploration into his unique process began by trying to physically recreate the imagery of his memories. By constructing intricate landscapes inside a water filled aquarium, he was able to create the mysterious atmosphere of the mind. Inspired by memories of his father mixing condensed milk and water, one memory helped to complete the other. As Keever continued to explore, his photography evolved from atmospheric landscapes, to bold abstract compositions, allowing the materials to create expressions. Bright pigments hang weightless, captured in digital form. Keever states, “the idea has become a machine that makes the art”. Keever’s work is included in numerous collections, including: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC.
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Kim Keever, Abstract 10166, 2014, c-print, variable dimensions
Kim Keever, Abstract 1150, 2014, c-print, variable dimensions
Kim Keever, Abstract 14566, 2014, c-print, variable dimensions
Kim Keever Abstract 8585c, 2014, c-print, variable dimensions
Kim Keever Abstract 14013 2014, c-print, variable dimensions 203 Dexter Avenue North, Seattle WA 98109 gallery@winstonwachter.com
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