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| featured artist Michael Miller by June Mattingly // regularmain.com Back to my visit to the 2010 Chicago Art Fair, the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art turned into the “production site” for The Artist’s Studio Inside Out ─ a contemporary perspective on the artist’s studio as art. Miller’s studio is an excellent example of this philosophy ─ in reality the contents of this studio reside in his installation TODAY I AM THANKFUL FOR ALL I HAVE for Moody Gallery’s ArtHouston 2010 |
| installation view of the artist's studio |
| Moody Gallery 2815 Colquitt Street Houston, TX 77098-2140 713.526.9911 www.moodygallery.com |
| Miller displays over 50 of his mixed media acrylic on fabric meditative creations hung on major gallery walls in salon style in a preconceived order. His color drenched compositions astutely combine short worded to the point, occasionally bizarre but clear text, mixed with images of imaginary but appropriate people, plants and animals; designs on printed store- bought fabrics remain in certain places. The whole point, his Press Release states is to “convey a commentary on our consumer and media driven society.” To carefully consume a wall or two of Miller’s small size but not small impact size quasi -political paintings is a pleasurable intellectual pursuit. Similar to not wishing an interesting sentence to end in the middle, being spoiled now, Miller’s works, selected with a sequence in mind to take home would work well with two to six positioned together. |
| Miller shows at Texas museums, non-profit and university galleries; museums owning his work include the Dallas Museum of Art and Houston Museum of Fine Arts. After receiving his MFA from U of C at Davis he move d to Houston as a Core Fellow at the Glassell School followed by taking advantage of a scholarship at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Since 1992, he serves as Professor of Art and Director of Graduate Studies in the Art Department at Texas A & M in Commerce. |
Teen Rapper, 2009, acrylic and fabric on paper, 26 x 24 inches
| Charred Remains, 2009, acrylic and fabric on paper, 26 x 24inches |
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