Mira Gerard’s luminous paintings are populated with gloaming landscapes, sun-tinged wildflowers and figures, and swooping marks, splatters and drips. Glowing color shifts swirl in pools and eddies, punctuated with sparkling bits of metallic pigment trapped in pools of paint that constitute the ground upon which imagery is carefully rendered. Gerard draws from personal memory, film, art history, and the natural world- often painted from photos from her walks outside and staged figurative photo sessions. In her own words, “Most of what I am doing has to do with that palpable sense of immersion into the air and light of a landscape space experienced in person. The expansive way that the edges of the self and the outdoors breathe into one another somehow.” Gerard has BFA from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and a MFA from The University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. They are a professor in the Department of Art…