WHERE ART INSPIRES CONNECTION
Into the Beyond
featuring work by
Jessie Laura
Ning Ma
Dasha Pears
October 15 - December 18, 2022
TINT's fall show explores the theme of "Into the Beyond" from the perspective of three women artists from three different countries.
Russian born, Finland-based Dasha Pears brings life to the subconscious. Her unique form of storytelling combines design, staging, and photography to create images that are whimsical yet simultaneously meticulous.
Peruvian-born, now SF-based, Jessie Laura explores what happens when we move beyond contemporary culture’s onslaught of visual imagery. Stripped from color and representational imagery, Laura’s work allows volume, texture, and light to become the focus.
Chinese-born, Bay Area resident, Ning Ma, captures what it's like to go beyond the bounds of humanity's presence in her landscape photography. From the highest peaks to the lowest valleys, Ma's journey has taken her around the globe to places where few humans have gone.
Jessie Laura, (B. 1987, Lima, Peru) works primarily with wood and paper. She uses clarity and simplicity as her visual language, striving to generate the maximum effect on the viewer with minimal media.
Stripped from color and representational imagery, her work gives the viewer the opportunity to engage with the work with heightened focus and a higher awareness of their presence in the space.
Influenced by nature and architectural structures, her mixed media work features geometric and organic shapes that create depth, texture, and movement. Abstraction through form, light, and shadow allows Laura to respond to and engage with contemporary culture’s onslaught of visual imagery.
Ning Ma, born in Qingdao, China, raised in Vancouver, BC, is a photographer and mountaineer with footsteps across 30+ countries, across 5 continents. She began her journey exploring the world when she was 17, when she went to volunteer to help build a school in rural Masai Mara, Kenya. Since then, she has gone on to study Arabic in Morocco and Egypt, trek through the jungles of the Amazon rain forests, backpack across the bustling streets of South East Asia, sail down the coast of Patagonia, hot balloon across the red sand dunes of Namibia, cage-dive next to the Great Whites of South Africa, dance under the brilliant Northern Lights in Iceland, and chase-storms in USA's Tornado Alley. Somewhere along the way, she discovered her love for landscape photography.
Ma is currently on a decade-long endeavor to create the first fine-art photography series of documenting the Explorers’ Grand Slam: the summit of the tallest mountain of every continent (Everest, Aconcagua, Denali, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus, Vinson, and Puncak Jaya), and the North and South Pole.
In between her travels, Ma has been calling the Bay Area home since 2019.
Dasha Pears’ uncanny laconic art pieces are focused on self- discovery and our inner worlds. Aesthetically clean and pleasing artworks are like doors to a surreal universe where any psychological state becomes beautiful.
Pears uses the instruments of surrealism, minimalism, color, photography, and digital manipulation to tell surprising visual stories with a twist. In her stories, she speaks about the deepest psychological matters, bringing things that are usually considered un-pretty to light, making them shine with different colors and aesthetic appeal. Pears' art gives viewers a chance to be at peace with themselves, providing an almost physically soothing effect on the human psyche.