GREG MILLER The Lost Coast WILLIAM TURNER GALLERY
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reg Miller grew up in 50’s -60’s Sacramento, inspired by the rush of billboards, posters, ads and text that shaped the flat delta landscapes and pulp fiction images of his youth. Layer upon layer of images, one billboard or poster slapped over the next, formed a sort cultural geology, where the passage of time might jumble, conceal and reveal an archeology of images, their stories hidden & hinted at in the remaining fragments. Labeled a “neo-pop” and “post-pop” artist by such critics as Donald Kuspit and Peter Frank, Miller does indeed draw from pop-cultural imagery that saturated American consciousness during the 1950’s and 1960’s. It was a time when advertising and text became indelibly encrypted into our experience of everyday life. Life as “advertised” and life as “lived” became insuperably intertwined on the pages of “LIFE” and “LOOK” magazines, on television shows, commercials, billboards, hotel signs, romance novels and even matchbook covers as never before. Miller’s paintings excavate this imagery and often appear as unreconstructed fragments of these signs, drips, patterns and phrases. Miller’s work is featured in numerous museum and private collections, including those of the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, and Charles Saatchi Foundation.
The Lost Coast
Breakfast at Tiffanys, 2019, acrylic, collage paper, resin on panel, 30�x40�
GOOD, 2018, acrylic, collage paper, resin on panel, 36”x36”
THEFRONT, 2019, acrylic, collage paper, resin on panel, 48”x48”
Installation - Natalie Arnoldi Shipstern & Andy Moses Geodesy 1504
SIERRAOAKS, 2019, acrylic, collage paper, resin on panel, 48”x48”
DREAM, 2019, acrylic, collage paper, resin on panel, 48”x48”
AVILABEACH, 2019, acrylic, collage paper, resin on panel, 48”x48”
PLAY, 2019, acrylic, collage paper, resin on panel, 60”x48”
LOVE #2, 2019, Acrylic, acrylic, collage paper, resin on panel, 48� Diameter
LOVE, 2019, acrylic, collage paper, resin on panel, 48”x48”
Destiny, 2015, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 48”x60”
Ciros #3, 2002, oil, paper and resin on panel, 36�x48�
Javier Pelรกez, Broken Tree #8, Broken Tree #6 & Broken Tree #5
7UP, 2001, oil, paper and resin on panel, 73.5� x 73.5�
Beyond Desire, 2018, acrylic, collage paper, resin on panel, 60�x48�
GREGORY MILLER East Hampton, NY | Venice Beach, CA b. 1951, Sacramento, CA Master of Arts, San Jose State University. San Jose, CA UCLA, Graduate School. Los Angeles, CA San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco, CA SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2019 2018 2017 2016 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
Solo Exhibition Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA Solo Exhibition Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA Group Exhibition The Lost Coast William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Group Exhibition JoAnne Artman Gallery, New York, NY Solo Exhibition Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA Solo Exhibition William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Solo Exhibition Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID Solo Exhibition Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA Solo Exhibition William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Group Exhibition Morrison Gallery, Kent, CT Group Exhibition Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston, TX Solo Exhibition Surfari Crossroads Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY Solo Exhibition Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA Solo Exhibition William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Solo Exhibition Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA Solo Exhibition William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Solo Exhibition Campton Gallery, New York, NY Solo Exhibition Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA Solo Exhibition William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Solo Exhibition Campton Gallery, New York, NY Solo Exhibition Scream Gallery, London, UK Solo Exhibition Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA Solo Exhibition Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA Group Exhibition PEVETO, Houston, TX Group Exhibition Freight & Volume, New York, NY Solo Exhibition Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA Group Exhibition Deborah Page Projects, Austin, TX Solo Exhibition Artspace 111, Ft. Worth, TX Solo Exhibition Campton Gallery, New York, NY Solo Exhibition The Get Go. William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Solo Exhibition Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA Group Exhibition Under the Influence of Fashion and Finance. Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art: Santa Monica, CA Solo Exhibition Campton Gallery, New York, NY Solo Exhibition Recent Paintings. William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Solo Exhibition Route 99. Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA Group Exhibition Signs of the Nearly Actual. William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Cont. 2008 Solo Exhibition Unforeseen Frontier. William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Solo Exhibition Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA Solo Exhibition Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, CA Solo Exhibition The Seduction. Kidder-Smith Gallery, Boston, MA Group Exhibition Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA Group Exhibition Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, CA 2007 Group Exhibition Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA Group Exhibition Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, CA Group Exhibition Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO Group Exhibition Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA 2006 DIVA Video Installation Art Basel, Miami, FL 2005 Group Exhibition Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA 2004 Solo Exhibition William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Solo Exhibition Kidder-Smith Gallery, Boston, MA 2003 Solo Exhibition William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Solo Exhibition Kidder-Smith Gallery, Boston, MA Group Exhibition Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL Group Exhibition Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2002 Solo Exhibition Kidder-Smith Gallery, Boston, MA Solo Exhibition Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA Group Exhibition Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL 2001 Solo Exhibition So Hyun Gallery, New York, NY Solo Exhibition William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA 2000 Solo Exhibition Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA Solo Exhibition “Kidnapping”, No Prisoners, Los Angeles, CA 1999 Solo Exhibition Lejneiks Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 1998 Group Exhibition Lejneiks Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Group Exhibition Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 1997 Solo Exhibition Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Solo Exhibition Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Group Exhibition Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1996 Solo Exhibition Slutzky Sheffner Contemporary Art, Newport Beach, CA Group Exhibition Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA 1995 Solo Exhibition The Viper Room. William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA Solo Exhibition Objects. Slutzky Sheffner Contemporary Art, Newport Beach, CA Group Exhibition Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA Group Exhibition Pated Paper. Louis Stern Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Group Exhibition American Collage. William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA 1994 Solo Exhibition Ted Mendenhal Gallery, Pasadena, CA Solo Exhibition William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA Group Exhibition Night of the Masque. Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, CA 1993 Solo Exhibition William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA Group Exhibition Gallery 57, San Francisco, CA 1992 Solo Exhibition American Journals. William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA Group Exhibition Object/Image Found. TransAmerican Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED MUSEUM & PUBLIC COLLECTIONS San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles, CA Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, CA Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Laguna Art Museum. Laguna Beach, CA Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA Charles Saatchi Foundation London, UK Playboy Enterprises. Chicago, IL W Hotel, San Diego, CA PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA Miller, Greg. “Greg Miller:The Get Go.” Art Book. 2010. Moret, A. “Greg Miller: Recent Work at William Turner Gallery.” Art Ltd. Sept/Oct 2009. Miller, Greg. “Greg Miller: Signs of the Nearly Actual.” Retrospective Art Book. 2008. Dougherty, Michael B. “Art Attack.” Vegas Magazine. May 2009. Bamsey, Ben. “Greg Miller.” Artworks Magazine. Spring 2009. California Dreaming. Angeleno Magazine. The Next Wave. Men’s Vogue. Article by Mark Rozzo Gregory Miller. Article by Donald Kuspit The Printed Word. Catalogue. Stephen Moore – editor Pagel, David. “Art: Reviews.” Los Angeles Times. December 31, 1992. Smith, Caalon. Los Angeles Times. January 1986. Muchnic, Suzanne. “Major and Minor.” Los Angeles Times. 1981.