Curiosity about the interplay of landscape and the deep wonder of the human psyche and their respective relationship to one another has sparked Miró Justad’s visual journey on the canvas. Painting in the privacy of home for over a decade, always seeking solace and exploration through color and shape, Miró is now sharing her work for the first time with the public, beginning with the acrylic and oil pastel on mat board piece “California Blue.”

It would be impossible to consider her work without acknowledging the influence that her parents’ had and continue to have on her as a thinker, artist, and human. Her late mother, Yung, was an abstract painter who immigrated from Korea as a young girl during the Korean War and her late father, Alan, was a writer born in the midwest to a methodist minister. The atmosphere in which she was raised was eclectic in ideas, aesthetics, literature, and art and she constantly finds that her paintings reflect back some of that amalgamation from her childhood home.

Born and raised in Seattle, Miró moved to Los Angeles in 2017 to play drums in her now former band Tangerine. Currently, Miró directs and shoots indie music videos, writes for her substack, does photography, and paints.