Greg Miller
Drawing from the diverse cultural and geographic makeup of his Californian roots, Greg Miller explores his relationship with the space he inhabits to communicate a particular urban experience. Working with both paint and collage, he constructs and deconstructs exploring the contradiction, ambiguity, and truth between urban streetscape and history. Miller’s art is clever and cool. His abstracted backgrounds of drips, patterns, and phrases and the peeling back of layers provide a study in the impermanence of the things that surround us.
His large-scale paintings and installations aim to make the most fleeting parts of American culture tangible. They grab us nostalgically, rousing us to enjoy the momentary beauty found in the impermanent parts of our lives. There is a fragile heroicness conveyed within the temporary nature of it all, especially within his construction of paper, wood, and natural materials, that gives Miller’s work liveliness and depth.
GREG MILLER (b. 1951, Sacramento, California) spends his time between New York and Los Angeles.
09/05/19 | THE WILD BUNCH: Featuring BILLY SCHENCK, GREG MILLER, + AMERICA MARTIN | JoAnne Artman gallery | New York |
05/10/18 | Urban Flora | JoAnne Artman Gallery | New York |
09/07/17 | Deconstructing Allusion: Featuring Greg Miller | JoAnne Artman Gallery | New York |