Mira Gerard’s luminous paintings are populated with gloaming landscapes, sun-tinged wildflowers and figures, and fantastical elements rendered in glazes, stains, splatters, and painterly marks. Drawing from personal memory, film, art history, and photos from her walks outside and sessions with friends, Gerard’s work combines articulate rendering with heady, atmospheric abstraction to create spaces that feel both dreamlike and tangibly real. In her own words, “Most of what I am doing has to do with that sense of light and magic that takes one’s breath away when immersed in a landscape space with certain kinds of light. Awe, silence and presence are what I’m after. The imagery is envisioned within that special space.”
Gerard’s work has been exhibited at Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, Torrance Art Museum, Huntsville Museum of Art, Arkansas Museum of Art, Nave Gallery, Boston, Wichita Center for Contemporary Art, K Space Contemporary, William King Museum, James May Gallery, Vanderbilt University, ASC Project Space, New York, Knoxville Museum of Art, and many more.
Gerard is the Founding Director of Tyger Tyger Gallery. She is also a professor in the Department of Art & Design at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee, where she has taught since 2001 and served as the department chair from 2014-2021.