GREG MILLER CALL OF DUTY
WILLIAM TURNER GALLERY BERGAMOT STATION ARTS CENTER 2525 MICHIGAN AVE., E-1 SANTA MONICA, CA 90404 P 310-453-0909 F 310-453-0908 www.williamturnergallery.com
CALL OF DUTY The William Turner Gallery is pleased to present Call of Duty, new paintings by Greg Miller. Drawing on the cultural and geographic influences of his California roots, Greg Miller explores images of the American urban and rural landscape of the mid-twentieth century. The work grabs us nostalgically, rousing a shared cultural memory, but also teaches something of their lingering pull on contemporary perception. Labeled a “neo-pop” and “post-pop” artist by such critics as Donald Kuspit and Peter Frank, Miller does indeed draw from the popcultural imagery that saturated American consciousness during the 1950’s and 1960’s. It was a time during which advertising and text became indelibly encrypted into our experience of everyday life. Life as “advertised” and life as “lived” were 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. These form the layers of Miller’s pop cultural imagery, both literally and figuratively. Greg Miller’s work is featured in numerous museum and private collections, including those of the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation and Charles Saatchi Foundation. The Get Go, a volume of his writings, photography and paintings, was published in 2010, and the first comprehensive monograph on the artist, Signs of the Nearly Actual, was published in 2008. Miller spends his time between New York and Los Angeles.
Coral Reef, 2014, Acrylic, Collage, Resin on Panel, 72”x 60”
First Kiss, 2014, Acrylic, Collage, Resin on Panel, 60”x 48”
James Beach, 2014, Acrylic, Collage, Resin on Panel, 48”x 48”
After Dark, 2014, Acrylic, Collage, Resin on Panel, 48”x 48”
Maltese Falcon, 2014, Acrylic, Collage, Resin on Panel, 60”x 48”
P, 2014, Acrylic, Collage, Resin on Panel, 25”x 65”
Pool Painting, 2014, Acrylic, Collage, Resin on Panel, 48”x 60”
Pool Party, 2014, Acrylic, Collage, Resin on Panel, 48”x 60”
The Blue, 2014, Acrylic, Collage, Resin on Panel, 48”x 60”
True, 2014, Acrylic and Collage on Panel, 100”x 132” and 108”x 132” (2 panels)
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